NO! Nooooooooooooooo! This is ONE book, y’all. One poor, 19th century book that has been tortured by tape. TAPE IS EVIL. (Source: https://vine.co/)
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Author: digitalcellulose
These are my notes, paired with some of the images I used on my slides, that I used to give my presentation as a panel member at the Library Collections Care Discussion Group during the 2015 AIC Annual Meeting. This talk will be a balance of “how to” and “why”. There are many other resources […]
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My own personal card catalog at home.
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Sometimes my job feels a little surreal… (I’m repairing the inner hinge of this book, which has some very expressive endpapers)
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This book nearly blinded me when I opened it because the mirrored endpapers reflected the ceiling lights when I opened it! #library (Source: https://vine.co/)
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Printer’s error
During a digitization project, I noticed this intriguing printer’s error in a 18th century herbal. Apparently, the paper had a fold in it when it went through the press, which accounts for the wide blank line, and the crookedness of the text. On the opposite side, it was clear that they unfolded the paper before […]
conservethis: Doing some spray deacidification with our Bookkeeper system here in the conservation lab. cemeteryconservation: Tell us more, what is the process? Well, first you spend about 15 minutes trying to remember how to turn on the mixer (you have to loosen a nut on the thing attached to the blue thing). Then you let […]
Just wanted to let y’all know that I’m going to be speaking as a panelist for the Library Collections Care Discussion Group at this year’s AIC Annual Meeting, which is less than a month away from now! I’ll be chiming in about using social media (Twitter, Tumblr, etc) as a form of conservation outreach. This […]
Well, the most common use is to use them as weights during treatments… But my lab has also employed them for other practical reasons, such as to raise up some of the tables… …and also used them as part of a holder for our roll of polyester film (which we use to encapsulate items).
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Backing press
Backing press