Disbinding a damaged book, so that I can resew it and then rebind it. It’s strangely therapeutic and relaxing to take a book apart, I’ve found. Putting it back together is the more stressful part for me.
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Edge decoration and marbled endpapers on an 18th century French binding.
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More paste paper found on one of our library books. Red, black, and gold paint that’s still shiny!
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Really digging the typography on this book’s cover. That intertwining C and S!
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German paste-paper appreciation post. All of these books were found in my library’s circulating stacks, by the way. I just went down the rows and pulled out the ones that caught my eye, photographed them, and released them back into the wild! 🙂
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Yesterday in the conservation lab it was all about bedbugs and sticky Star Wars toys. Today it’s all about panoramic photographs in need of rehousing!
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Remember my post from yesterday? http://conservethis.tumblr.com/post/131514951634/this-box-just-got-delivered-to-preservation-today Well, turns out they were bedbugs AND cockroaches AND they were STILL ALIVE!! Also, this bug poops on camera, just for you! In conservation, we refer to insect poop as “frass”. (Source: https://embed.tumblr.com/)
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This box just got delivered to preservation today. What a great way to start the week! T_T (The sign on the box says “Contains remnants of bugs, possibly ticks”, and inside was a plastic bag with several books in it that were apparently full of (dead, I hope?) bugs when they were turned back in to […]
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A card catalog with a modern flair to it, probably from the 1970′s or so.
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Spotted in the library: Nick Offerman.