Circulation just sent me this book, which apparently is actually the halves of TWO different books bound together accidentally by our commercial binder. As far as I can tell, the first half of the book is “What we talk about when we talk about love" by Raymond Carver, and the second half is a book by […]
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 […]
My own personal card catalog at home.
Sooooooomebody went a little crazy with the Demco hinge tape (link is definitely not an endorsement, but for educational reasons only)!! I counted SEVEN pages with the tape on it, not to mention the green tape on the cover. This book is now brittle and breaking at the edges of the tape. Sigh.
Welcome to the 18th century, where the ex libris are made up and the straightness of your tooling doesn’t matter.
Useful books, for weakly puppies and dainty feeders. (Ads in the back of a 19th century book.)
From “Leather for Libraries”, 1905. Read it online!
Original collage by me. This was a page that was cut out of a library book by a patron, which was replaced by us.
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How to Handle Books, 1345 “For it behoves us to guard a book much more carefully than a boot.” See also: