Deborah is the Collections Conservator at Dartmouth College Library, where she has been for over ten years. Previously, she directed the conservation lab at Northwestern University Library. She has taught book arts at Columbia Center for Paper and Book, the Newberry Library, the Paper and Book Intensive and currently teaches binding classes at the Book Arts Workshop at Dartmouth. She is a long-standing member of the Guild of Book Workers and is on the board of directors for the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio