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Craig Preservation Lab

  • The rewards of our work

    This week we have been reflecting on our role as caretakers. The work we do with our hands in conservation ...
  • Square note with the date April 25, 1910 at the top. Watercolor robin on a branch and a poem: “O, to be a robin In the Spring! When the fleeting days of April are a-wing, And the air is sweet with knowing, Where the hidden buds are growing, And the merry winds are going Wandering!” The note is signed Mabel E. Ryals

    Elvira Bates Friendship Album

    One of my favorite parts of my job is interacting with aspects of history I never would have sought out ...
  • Scrapbook open to page containing a ticket stub, a theater program from the Importance of Being Earnest from the 1962-63 Indiana University Theatre Season, a crimson-colored leaf and a branch with many small leaves

    A Glimpse into the Paper Lab

    Hello Fair Blog Readers! My name is Natalie Guingrich and, as the newest addition to the Preservation Lab, I thought ...
  • book with emerald green pigmented covers

    Bibliotoxicology

    Greater awareness has risen recently concerning the phenomenon of “Poison Books”: that is, books containing pigments composed of heavy metals ...

  • Famous People Fake-Out

    One of the things that I love most about my work in Preservation is that sometimes when you open a ...

  • A Post about Post-it Notes

    This is a public service announcement for those of you who may have, at one time or another, used Post-it ...
  • Duplicate copies of books fill 3 shelves of a book truck

    A (New) Librarian in the Lab

    By Wendy Spacek Collection Management with a Preservation Perspective In the fall of 2018 I joined the Preservation Lab as ...
  • Black and white image of the Wells Library south entrance.

    Of Scrapbooks and Banners

    Lately, there are more and more opportunities to attend virtual events, lectures, webinars and presentations on the subjects of preservation ...