Author: digitalcellulose
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Mirror Endpapers
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Yes, that’s a banana. That was used as a bookmark, in one of our non-circulating books. And then left for our staff to find over the weekend. WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE??!!?!?! I hope it goes without saying, that if you’re reading my Tumblr, you know better than to leave banana peels in books.
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So I just found out that Intelligentsia Coffee sells a DECAF ONLY “Librarian’s Blend”. Do they even KNOW any librarians?? Because libraries run on caffeine! I mean they wouldn’t dare make a decaf-only blend called “Doctor’s Blend” or “Lawyer’s Blend”.
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This book’s call number label has peeled away, but also took some of the spine’s decoration with it, leaving an interesting pattern on the underside of the label.
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Opening a cereal box
Carefully opening a sealed commemorative box of Kellogg’s corn flakes in the conservation lab. The emptied box will go live a happy life in one of our Archives collections. No, I’m not going to taste the cereal… 😛
What tape does to paper. You can see my fingers through the tape, which has made the paper translucent.
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Conservation lab limericks
Here in the lab there’s no issues,With using our tissues,Except when you sneeze,We ask you quite please,Use the Kleenex and not the Sekishu! There once was a company named Demco,Whose products were used with a gusto,On spines they would drape,The most marvelous tape,Removing its really quite slow, yo. I work in a book-fixing lab,this makes […]
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Dissent
I’d like to dissent with the view that you should let your book-devouring pets near your library books.