Our electric guillotine. It’s so fancy it’s almost impossible to chop your own fingers off with it! #conservation #conservator #heavyequipment #library (Source: https://vine.co/)
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Author: digitalcellulose
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Our order of custom-cut boxes from Talas arrived, and I spent the morning assembling them and figuring out which book fit into each box! The boxes arrived flat, so I had to fold them into shape first before they could be filled with a book. It was a little bit like a puzzle…and fun because […]
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When only the best wheat paste will do, buy Tik!
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Paint, paste, paper and push! Ad on a building in NYC.
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What tape does to paper. You can see my fingers through the tape, which has made the paper translucent.
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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I’d like to dissent with the view that you should let your book-devouring pets near your library books.
(Image from the Library of Congress Digital Collections) I’m researching a bit about horn books, because I have to make some enclosures for a few in our collection. During my research I came across this delightful quote (from “HISTORY OF THE HORN-BOOK”, The Spectator, 1 Aug 1896) “Mr. Tuer says that the "preservation of more […]
Conservation Treatment Report for the Conservation Lab Sink Condition and Description Summary: This is a stainless-steel double sink, with a crook neck faucet and individual handles for hot and cold water control. The sink is in poor condition, with a thick encrustation of desiccated PVA glue. No signs of previous cleaning attempts are visible. Treatment […]
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Doing some repair sewing…