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Somebody memorialized their Eureka moment on the title page of this library book.

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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 […]

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Someone “fixed” this with some poorly placed pieces of double-sided tape. Sigh.

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Scenes from the life of a library conservator

This book was brought to us last Friday. Somebody found it, soaking-wet, outside the bathroom on Thursday night. This is definitely one we’ll be ordering a straight-up replacement for, rather than trying to fix. Please note the fly.

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TGIF!

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From “Leather for Libraries”, 1905. Read it online!

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From Reverend O’Conor’s “Facts About Bookworms”. New York, 1898.

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Perfect combo!

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Danton does not approve of oversewing!

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A really good example of a terrible cover-up job by a patron. We didn’t fall for it. Please note that they have colored in, with colored pencils, the filled-in area AND the roughed-up original boards. Also, the icing on the cake…the title of this book is “Too Big to Fail”.