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Screenshot from our library catalog software, as I’m checking books back in after they’ve been repaired. Apparently, this book was quite delicious.

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When someone uses the phrase “archival tape”

No, really, an “archival quality” pressure-sensitive tape does not exist.

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Filed under, “good idea, poor execution”

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Put on yer gloves!

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!

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This book had an ombré spine lining! The red is probably the result of over spraying when they colored the head edge of the textblock. Also I dig the yellow and purple color scheme.

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Someone “fixed” this with some poorly placed pieces of double-sided tape. Sigh.

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Little Monday morning surprises found squashed in the margin of a book I’m resewing.

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Don’t read and drive, folks.

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Proper tape removal etiquette requires the pinky finger to be extended.

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Gold-stamped image of a pitcher plant on the insect-damaged cover of “Recollections of a Happy Life” by Marianne North.