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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Screenshot from our library catalog software, as I’m checking books back in after they’ve been repaired. Apparently, this book was quite delicious.
Did anyone lose their vacation photos? I found these stuck in the back of a book I was working on. No really, they were actually stuck to the back pastedown.
No, really, an “archival quality” pressure-sensitive tape does not exist.
When you find out that water leaked from the ceiling INTO the Preservation lab: Then you find out the water came from an overflowing toilet… And that it’s happened before!
When I hear the phrase “we fixed it with some tape”…
So, I just learned about a Preservation ‘urban legend’ yesterday, while working a preservation “clinic” at a workshop hosted by my library. A man had brought a very brittle and fragile army base newspaper that belonged to his father. It was falling apart, and the paper was very pulpy and probably wouldn’t survive much more […]