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This is a page out of my library’s Conservation Manual, circa 1979. 

I literally gasped when I read the first bullet point about mending pages with Scotch Magic tape. This sure explains why so many of the books sent to the lab have just been absolutely COVERED with book tape. Taping our general collections book was a sanctioned activity back then. Now my job involves a lot of work undoing those previously sanctioned activities.