Is the square on the bottom darker? “The Interaction of Color” by Josef Albers, call number fND1489 A4 1963.
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Taking some initial notes for the pre-treatment documentation for this 1979 Millennium Falcon toy. Mostly it just needs a better box, but some of the decals are lifting or already detached, and may need to be re-adhered with an appropriate adhesive. Documentation is VERY important in conservation, and was one of the first things they […]
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Book Care. Sin #2: Idleness #conservation #preservation #library (Source: https://vine.co/)
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Glues, pastes, and other powders. Also a coveted Cook-N-Stir for making really awesome paste. And the DS9 cup I found in the cabinet under the lab sink one day. #conservation #preservation #adhesives (Source: https://vine.co/)
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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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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 […]