Hi! A good rule of thumb for storage of paper items is that paper is the best way to store paper. Of course, you want to use very high quality paper filing supplies, so look for words like “buffered” or “acid-free” on the box. I highly recommend buffered paper folders to store the kind of […]
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Golden anteater
Check out this gold stamped anteater on the cover of this book! This is a 1914 edition of “Through the Brazilian wilderness” by Theodore Roosevelt, currently in our general collections. You can also read it online on the HathiTrust website, for free!
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The “uh oh” shelf
I think most archives have a shelf like this, for those things that make you go “Uh oh!”. In this case, it’s a couple of boxes of moldy/gross photographic negatives.
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This is an old-books-about-Egypt appreciation post. I love publisher’s bindings, and Egyptian art, so this was a fun excursion into our stacks. These are all circulating books, by the way, not part of our special collections. Also I can’t get over that typeface they used on “Redemption of Egypt”. SO pretty! Anybody know what it’s called, […]
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Oh my god I just made a protective plastic L-sleeve for a 5.5 feet (1.7 meters) long panoramic photograph and I just need to sit down for a bit now and catch my breath. It is longer than I am tall. That is a 15 inch ruler for scale, by the way. Did I mention […]
Happy St. Bartholomew’s Day! Saint Bartholomew is just one of the patron saints of bookbinders. From what I understand (I’m not Catholic by a long shot) St. Bartholomew is the patron saint of bookbinders because he was flayed alive…hence, he’s associated with leather (and is also the patron saint of tanners)…and guess who uses a […]
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it me (Doing some paper repair on a June 1945 issue of Ladies Home Journal)
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This book is covered in denim AND IT HAS A POCKET on the front cover!! :3
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Here’s a library conservator shelfie.
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Found a map of Texas stuck inside an early 19th cen book of German poetry. I have no idea what book the map belongs to, so now it goes in my pile of “things found in books that weren’t supposed to be in that book”. Cc stufffoundinbooks