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 […]
Our order of custom-cut boxes from Talas arrived, and I spent the morning assembling them and figuring out which book fit into each box! The boxes arrived flat, so I had to fold them into shape first before they could be filled with a book. It was a little bit like a puzzle…and fun because […]
What tape does to paper. You can see my fingers through the tape, which has made the paper translucent.
Here in the lab there’s no issues,With using our tissues,Except when you sneeze,We ask you quite please,Use the Kleenex and not the Sekishu! There once was a company named Demco,Whose products were used with a gusto,On spines they would drape,The most marvelous tape,Removing its really quite slow, yo. I work in a book-fixing lab,this makes […]
(Image from the Library of Congress Digital Collections) I’m researching a bit about horn books, because I have to make some enclosures for a few in our collection. During my research I came across this delightful quote (from “HISTORY OF THE HORN-BOOK”, The Spectator, 1 Aug 1896) “Mr. Tuer says that the "preservation of more […]
Someone folded up their library check-out receipt into a paper crane, and left it in the back of this book.
Red circles on vandalized library books.
Screenshot from our library catalog software, as I’m checking books back in after they’ve been repaired. Apparently, this book was quite delicious.
No, really, an “archival quality” pressure-sensitive tape does not exist.
Filed under, “good idea, poor execution”