Ultrasonic Misting- Part Two In the previous post, I mentioned some of the factors involved in choosing a consolidant for the job at hand. ... August 17, 2017
Ultrasonic Misting- Part One I’ve been busy the past several months in the Paper Lab getting together the parts, purchase requests and wherewithal to ... August 8, 2017
Bell Trace Art Class Visits the Lab The Preservation Department and the Auxiliary Library Facility (ALF) hosted a group of local students this week for a tour. ... July 13, 2017
Evolution In April, we had a lovely visit from the Guild of Book Workers / Midwest Chapter, while they were in ... May 1, 2017
Improved Ties for Portfolios Occasionally unbound items come into the Paper Lab that are too thin to warrant a corrugated box, but they usually ... April 17, 2017
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’ ... March 17, 2017
Future Book Artists This week the Preservation Department hosted Bloomington’s Girl Scout Troop 3468. They came to learn about book arts so they ... January 24, 2017
Don’t Pull, Just Cut! While working on this very damaged book, some words of advice from long ago kept ringing in my ears – ... January 17, 2017
Fires and Poetry Recently, I was repairing this book: I have a fondness for old textbooks, so it was nice to have a ... December 13, 2016
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 ... November 3, 2016