Of Baseball, Books, and Book Tape
What could a ticket to a Cincinnati Buckeyes baseball game in 1869 have in common with a book of Sophocles’ ...
Elise Calvi
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Future Book Artists
This week the Preservation Department hosted Bloomington’s Girl Scout Troop 3468. They came to learn about book arts so they ... -
Don’t Pull, Just Cut!
While working on this very damaged book, some words of advice from long ago kept ringing in my ears – ... -
Roll Your Own, or, Frugality is the Mother of Invention
First, let us define our terms — Roll Your Own informal – make one’s own cigarettes from loose tobacco noun ... -
Floating Discs
Sorry, this isn’t about alien spaceships. It is about how we designed an enclosure for delaminating lacquer discs so that ... -
How to Eat an Elephant
As a new preservation librarian managing a large project for the first time, and faced with what I thought at ... -
Postmortem
Postmortem [pohst-mawr-tuh m] Noun Preservation folks spend a lot of time preparing for library disasters. We identify risks and mitigate ... -
The History of Sumatra, and of the book-cloth tape attached to its cover
Another day, another book with book-cloth tape. A nice book, though — The full-leather cover was worn, but the structure ... -
How Costs Factor into the Preservation of Library Collections
Although the image of the library conservator or preservation professional may be that of a person patiently performing careful, delicate, ... -
Inverse Relationships in Libraryland
One definition of inverse, from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is: adjective in·verse \(ˌ)in-ˈvərs, ˈin-ˌ\ –used to describe two things that are related in such ...