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 […]
This book has translucent plastic plates of medieval stained glass windows! What a cool feature…I’ve never seen anything like it! Many of the plates have come loose, however, so we’ll tip them back in before the book is returned to the library shelves.
Awwwww, poor little book!
Hi! A good rule of thumb for storage of paper items is that paper is the best way to store paper. Of course, you want to use very high quality paper filing supplies, so look for words like “buffered” or “acid-free” on the box. I highly recommend buffered paper folders to store the kind of […]
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, […]
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, […]
In today’s gross-out corner (aka the fume hood), I examine a book for evidence of mold. Spoiler alert: it is VERY moldy.
Circulation just sent me this book, which apparently is actually the halves of TWO different books bound together accidentally by our commercial binder. As far as I can tell, the first half of the book is “What we talk about when we talk about love" by Raymond Carver, and the second half is a book by […]
Spot the irony! This one is especially for digitalproductionunit Oh and look, someone digitized it and put it up online!
What’s hiding under that book “repair” tape? Oh, it’s the original gold stamped spine, now ruined! (Source: https://vine.co/)