Floating Discs
Sorry, this isn’t about alien spaceships. It is about how we designed an enclosure for delaminating lacquer discs so that ...
Craig Preservation Lab
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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 ... -
Cows!
People write in books. Sometimes this is infuriating. Sometimes it is beautiful. Or hilarious. I have particularly enjoyed the deeply ... -
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, ... -
A Collaboration of 3-D Modelling and Automated Box Manufacture for Library Special Collections Enclosures
The E. Lingle Craig Preservation Lab routinely produces a large number of enclosures for both bound and unbound materials within ... -
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 ... -
Oh, the places you’ll go! (if you are a book …)
Some books really get around. A book’s life history may be of great interest (see, for example, the Book Traces ... -
Custom Enclosure for Seed Collection
In the paper conservation lab we make enclosures too. As you’d guess, they are usually for flat paper items: letters, ...