Screenshot from our library catalog software, as I’m checking books back in after they’ve been repaired. Apparently, this book was quite delicious.
Tag: library
No, really, an “archival quality” pressure-sensitive tape does not exist.
Filed under, “good idea, poor execution”
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!
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.
Someone “fixed” this with some poorly placed pieces of double-sided tape. Sigh.
Little Monday morning surprises found squashed in the margin of a book I’m resewing.
Don’t read and drive, folks.
Proper tape removal etiquette requires the pinky finger to be extended.
Gold-stamped image of a pitcher plant on the insect-damaged cover of “Recollections of a Happy Life” by Marianne North.