Well that sure is an awfully pretentious thing to call themselves.
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Golden anteater
Check out this gold stamped anteater on the cover of this book! This is a 1914 edition of “Through the Brazilian wilderness” by Theodore Roosevelt, currently in our general collections. You can also read it online on the HathiTrust website, for free!
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This is an old-books-about-Egypt appreciation post. I love publisher’s bindings, and Egyptian art, so this was a fun excursion into our stacks. These are all circulating books, by the way, not part of our special collections. Also I can’t get over that typeface they used on “Redemption of Egypt”. SO pretty! Anybody know what it’s called, […]
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Oh my god I just made a protective plastic L-sleeve for a 5.5 feet (1.7 meters) long panoramic photograph and I just need to sit down for a bit now and catch my breath. It is longer than I am tall. That is a 15 inch ruler for scale, by the way. Did I mention […]
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it me (Doing some paper repair on a June 1945 issue of Ladies Home Journal)
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Here’s a library conservator shelfie.
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Found a map of Texas stuck inside an early 19th cen book of German poetry. I have no idea what book the map belongs to, so now it goes in my pile of “things found in books that weren’t supposed to be in that book”. Cc stufffoundinbooks
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This book went to get library bound in 1984, according to its original check-out card. And guess what? It gets to go get library bound AGAIN, which is why it’s on my bench. I’m taking off the old & worn library binding, cleaning the spine, putting a nice reversibility layer of Japanese tissue on it, […]
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I had to leave these photographs in the humidification chamber (aka our paper washing sink) overnight because they were so curled. As a result, I had several nightmares about what I would find today when I returned to work this morning. Here they are: 1) Someone came in and stole all 30 of the photographs […]
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In today’s gross-out corner (aka the fume hood), I examine a book for evidence of mold. Spoiler alert: it is VERY moldy.