I love using jigs whenever possible, especially when it comes to measuring things for housings. So please meet the “Box-O-Matic” measuring jig, which I created from the bottom half of a 20 x 16 archival box and colored pencils. I invented the Box-O-Matic jig to quickly identify which oversized books could be immediately rehoused in […]
Do you have a problem?
Is that problem finding a housing (i.e. a box, folder, envelope, bag, etc) for something in your collection?
Do you not want to spend hours pouring through four different vendor catalogs, trying to find the box that fits your item the best?
Well, you’re in luck because I have the solution to your housing problem!
This is a tool that can quickly generate the minimum level of structured description and condition information needed for creating pre-treatment documentation. From this “skeleton” treatment proposal, additional information can be added manually, or it can be left as-is with only a little grammatical clean-up required to make it look like a human wrote it.
Beginning in 2019, I began a project to identify and document trade bindings (ca. 18th-19th century), bindings with some mark of the binder (tickets, signatures, or stamps), and other bindings of significant aesthetic interest that are currently in the circulating collection of ASU Library. To accomplish this I spent many hours walking the stacks of […]