Craig Preservation Lab

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    In Search of Lost Time

    A la Recherche du Temps Perdu | In Search of Lost Time And we’re back … Well actually, some of ...
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    Bookworms

    Now that we are gearing up to get back into the lab in the next couple of weeks, I can ...
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    Old School

    March 2020 Lately I’ve been spending some quality time in our guest room. In my quiet refuge, between Zoom meetings, ...
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    Working from Home: Part Two

    So it’s been a month. Or longer even. You’ve already finished all the little projects you had lying around and ...
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    Working From Home: Part One

    I assume that you, dear reader, have recently found yourself spending far more time than you are used to (or ...
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    Back to School

    On this blog, we often post about new techniques that we are learning in order to take better care of ...
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    Good intentions

    Things have been relatively calm in our corner of the blogosphere for several months, so I thought I’d add a ...
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    Spring/Summer Cleaning

    Items find their way to the preservation lab in a lot of different ways. Sometimes new items are sent to ...
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    All the Naked Ladies

    I have recently discovered a sure-fire way to keep things interesting in my job: endeavor to repair books about photography. ...