Weeding the conservation lab’s own research library, and these VHS tapes are getting scrutinized (by me) for their usefulness to future lab inhabitants. So far I’ve been able to find a DVD version available of “Into the Future”, which is also a great example of the 90′s era of internet optimism. As for the others, I […]
Spot the irony! This one is especially for digitalproductionunit Oh and look, someone digitized it and put it up online!
A reading Sasquatch in the Portland airport.
Just got a treat via Interlibrary Loan! The much-beloved, but limited-run journal known as “Recent Setbacks in Conservation”. Thanks to thegetty for loaning them! I’ll take good care of them while they’re in my possession. 🙂 Here’s just a sampling of what articles are contained within: “Restoration from Beyond: Is There a Happy Medium?” “Preserving a […]
Arrrrrrrrrrgh! The printer isn’t very color calibrated and this replacement endpaper is too pink!
(via Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, by G. B.-J. ) I was reading Victoria Finlay’s wonderful “The Brilliant History of Color in Art”, and came across this interesting story in the chapter about mummy brown. In it, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones performed a burial ceremony for a tube of mummy-brown paint, when he learned that […]
The Fragility of Headcaps and the Safe Handling of Books suspeccoll: conservethis: Pull it from the head, and the conservator will wish you were dead. Pull it from the spine, and everything will be fine. Love that rhyme – easy to remember, and important information about using books, especially ones in Special Collections. This conservator […]
There was a catalog advertisement for Nimmo’s books in the back of this Scottish book called “Books and Authors”.
The Journal of the Guild of Book Workers is now available online, for FREE! The Guild of Book Worker’s Journal is an annual publication containing in-depth articles, technical how-to’s, essays, profiles, illustrated exhibit reviews. The subjects cover general matters relating to the hand book crafts. Included are contemporary creative book arts as well as traditional […]
Somebody stapled some weird stuff to the half-title page of this book.