Duke University Libraries: New Records in the CDA!. “We’re very excited to announce that a new batch of conservation records has just been made publicly available in the [Conservation Documentation Archive]! With the addition of this batch, we have a total of 1,788 records preserved in the collection to date. The latest group of records date from 2017 through 2020.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/15/duke-university-libraries-new-records-in-the-cda/
Book bindings have memory. These two volumes recently removed from exhibition show the possible consequences of prolonged display.
The left boards will eventually settle back into a more horizontal position given time and careful handling.
#CollectionCare
#Preservation
#Exhibitions
#GLAM
#BookConservation
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This is called a "perfect binding". It isn't perfect.
If you use the book regularly and it isn't historically/emotionally significant, I suggest taking it to a print shop to be spine trimmed and spiral bound.
If historically/emotionally significant, a book conservator can hinge the board back into position.
Book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art #museums #SpecialCollections #BookRepair #BookConservation https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/books/book-conservation-met.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU0.GaT5.rJbRGiL4-rqL
On the conservation bench today, yes on Saturday for our once a month weekend opening, is a #book from 1552 for which I am writing an exhibition condition report.
The left endleaf is paper #ManuscriptWaste. Beneath the pastedown and just visible at the tail is a parchment manuscript #fragment.
Lambeth Palace Library
1552.1**
#CollectionCare
#BookConservation
#OnTheConservationBench
#Exhibitions
@histodons #histodons
@bookhistodons
@fragmentarium
#manuscriptfragment
On the conservation bench today is a #book from 1665 for which I am writing a condition report and applying a couple very small paper repairs.
Sometimes I get to spend time looking closely at wonderful things. In this case, preparing for the next exhibition.
Lambeth Palace Library
A82.6/M29
#CollectionCare
#BookConservation
#OnTheConservationBench
#Exhibitions
Up next is our wonderful and obviously glamorous Production Coordinator, Solange Masher! 👋
Solange is based in #Sheffield, South #Yorkshire, and is a book conservator. 📚 🇬🇧
She'll be helping us plan the show, and also think of various clever ways we can raise money for what we do (it's a lot of unpaid hours to put free content into the world and half the team is freelance).
Welcome, Solange!
#TheCWordPodcast #conservators #podcasting #conservation #BookConservation #books #BookConservator
Book friends, did I miss something? Why does only one of my usual retailers still sell any paper/Mylar dust jacket covers at all? My libraries and my bookstore are still using them, so where are they getting them? Simple Mylar sheets aren't what I need, but it's all Gaylord seems to be offering.
A whirlwind trip to Rouen to turn a manuscript page to reduce irreversible light damage in an exhibition.
#BookConservation
#CollectionsCare
#Loans
Managed to fit in an exhibition, the tomb of the heart of Richard the Lionheart in the Cathedral and Les Gros-Horloge.
A wonderful smell tour and business history at Floris, Jermyn Street. Even this event was a bit of a busman's holiday... potential book and paper conservation all around me.
#NoWhiteGloves
#NoGlovesWithPaperArchives
#BookConservation
#StationeryBindings
#TapeIsEvil
#LondonCraftWeek
Spotted while surface cleaning after completing the quarantine process. This unassuming volume has a lovely piece of pen practice.
#ManuscriptFragment
#PenPractice
#BookConservation
#Materiality
Clear, concise and immensely readable, George Boudalis's Codex and Craft in Late Antiquity.
I highly recommend if you want a starter text on the evolution from tablets to single section bindings to multi-section bindings along with structural elements and decoration.
#BookHistory
#Bookbinding
#BookConservation
#Endbands
@bookhistodons
@medievodons @histodons
Condition checking before sending out on loan:
- parchment undulations
- engrained dirt
- creased
- accretions, etc.
Having listed the above, this 12th century bible is doing ok.
Lambeth Palace Library [MS 3]
Final stabilising repairs to the Lambeth Bible before it goes on loan. It is a privilege to work on such a piece of 12th century history. [MS 3]
#BookConservation
#Archives
These book repairs couldn't be described as "pretty" or "elegant" but they've been effective. And if I decide to conserve this Islamic binding, these repairs will be easily removable.
[Sion ARC L40.2 OR17]
Practising secondary endbands.
#BookConservation
#BookStructure
THE POWER OF DISPLAY: BOOKS AS TRANSFORMATIVE TOOLS IN EXHIBITIONS
instructors: Jennifer Cohlman Bracchi & Vanessa Haight Smith
#curation #display #exhibitions #exhibitionstand #exhibitiondesign #bookhistory #paperhistory #bookconservation #libraries #archives #museums #galleries #primarysources #rarematerials #specialcollections #teachingandlearning
@overholt
Your team's outreach about this collection goes from great to great.
Katherine's ARA talk 2+ years ago was really useful and now this.
Congratulations!
#StationaryBindings
#AccountingMadePhysical
#Tackets
#BookConservation
Completing a condition report for this sweet book for an upcoming display.
Unfortunately, the binding won't be fully visible, mostly the opening.
Full red calf leather with extensive gold tooling over boards and spine.
Trimmed foredge ties. [MS 1077]
The joys of a condition survey.
[Ms 1211, Lambeth Palace Library]
