Conservation Treatment Report for the Conservation Lab Sink Condition and Description Summary: This is a stainless-steel double sink, with a crook neck faucet and individual handles for hot and cold water control. The sink is in poor condition, with a thick encrustation of desiccated PVA glue. No signs of previous cleaning attempts are visible. Treatment […]
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Someone folded up their library check-out receipt into a paper crane, and left it in the back of this book.
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Holiday crafting with old library catalog cards.
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Did anyone lose their vacation photos? I found these stuck in the back of a book I was working on. No really, they were actually stuck to the back pastedown.
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Filed under, “good idea, poor execution”
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This book had an ombré spine lining! The red is probably the result of over spraying when they colored the head edge of the textblock. Also I dig the yellow and purple color scheme.
So, I just learned about a Preservation ‘urban legend’ yesterday, while working a preservation “clinic” at a workshop hosted by my library. A man had brought a very brittle and fragile army base newspaper that belonged to his father. It was falling apart, and the paper was very pulpy and probably wouldn’t survive much more […]
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More uses for the wood burning hot tool: removing really stubborn not-water-soluble spine linings.
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Some Neanderthal* glued the spine of this book’s textblock to its case, in an attempt to repair it. Now I have to poultice it back off before we send it to the bindery for commercial binding. *apologies to any other anthropology people out there for my stupid joke.
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Don’t read and drive, folks.