1970s in the streets, 1870s in the sheets.
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Yes, I am that kind of person who visits the local library while on vacation. This is the bike rack outside of Syracuse’s petite Petit library in the Wescott neighborhood.
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Preemptive taping
Soooooooo…a coworker just brought me a book she’d found that had been “fixed” with packing tape. Somebody put packing tape over the inner hinge of the book! This in itself isn’t that unique…EXCEPT that the hinge WASN’T. EVEN. BROKEN!! Somehow whoever did it thought putting tape on an unbroken hinge was going to do something good […]
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Sometimes you find the strangest out-of-context things in collections.
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uispeccoll: If you’re off to a fancy costume party during the late 19th century in France, then this copy of Histoire du costume au théâtre is perfect for you! Published in 1880 by G. Charpentier in Paris, this book gives the history of French theater costumes with the aid of splendid illustrations, both color and […]
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Stained glass pages
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.
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Soap bubbles in the stacks
Soap bubbles spotted in the stacks.
Awwwww, poor little book!
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No respect for endpapers
Libraries have little regard for illustrated endpapers. Poor Joe got a sticker to the face.
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Paper curls from cleaning the spine of an old, big book in the conservation lab. I usually start out my spine cleaning by using a special dull knife to scrape away as much of the paper lining as I can, until I get down to the crash/mull/super fabric lining underneath. That’s when I switch to […]