NO! Nooooooooooooooo! This is ONE book, y’all. One poor, 19th century book that has been tortured by tape. TAPE IS EVIL. (Source: https://vine.co/)
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My own personal card catalog at home.
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Sometimes my job feels a little surreal… (I’m repairing the inner hinge of this book, which has some very expressive endpapers)
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One of the library staff found this book in the stacks and brought it to me to see if we should maybe put it somewhere safer (like Special Collections). It was published in 1798, and I’m pretty sure that’s the original binding, based on the paste-paper cover and hand-written spine label. The paper is absolutely […]
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Today in the lab: encapsulating some vintage Star Wars posters with our Minter ultrasonic welder. Ps encapsulation is NOT the same thing as lamination.
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Carefully opening a sealed commemorative box of Kellogg’s corn flakes in the conservation lab. The emptied box will go live a happy life in one of our Archives collections. No, I’m not going to taste the cereal… 😛 (Source: https://vine.co/)
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Taking some initial notes for the pre-treatment documentation for this 1979 Millennium Falcon toy. Mostly it just needs a better box, but some of the decals are lifting or already detached, and may need to be re-adhered with an appropriate adhesive. Documentation is VERY important in conservation, and was one of the first things they […]
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What tape does to paper. You can see my fingers through the tape, which has made the paper translucent.
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I’d like to dissent with the view that you should let your book-devouring pets near your library books.
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Someone folded up their library check-out receipt into a paper crane, and left it in the back of this book.