AmazingMeagenSpending my Friday in an intellectually happy place. Working solitary in a heritage library surveying book conditions.
One of my favourite places to have worked.
Conserved one of Faraday's lab books:
"Work, finish, publish"
https://www.icon.org.uk/static/3e588631-b31e-4fbe-84ae221774f6b1c0/meagansmithWork-finish-publish.pdf
New instance, new #introduction
#BookConservation
#PaperConservation
Heritage #EnvironmentalMonitoring
#Exhibitions
#MedievalManuscripts
#GLAM
#Naps
#Reading
#Travel
#Introvert
#Cake
Masking in public. Public transport over car driving with acknowledgement that some people need a car. Twitter alumni from the early exodus. Love heist films. American and English languages with a few other basics under the tongue: Italian, Spanish, Swahili, Japanese. Best trip ever was Antarctica.
FrankThis was the most time consuming & in depth book repair I've done. I disassembled the book, steamed pages, repaired pages with tengucho paper, re-bound the book, & made a new casing. It was my first time doing a rounded spine, so that was a bit scary! There was quite a bit of spine swell due to old adhesive that I wasn't able to completely remove + my own oversight of thread thickness.
#bookrepair #bookbinding #biblerepair #bookrestoration #bookconservation #biblerestoration
Hacker NewsHungary's oldest library is fighting to save books from a beetle infestation
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467062/hungary-library-books-beetles
#HackerNews #HungaryLibrary #BeetleInfestation #SaveTheBooks #BookConservation #CulturalHeritage
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseDuke 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/
Colleen TheisenBook 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
The C Word PodcastUp 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
Anne DeschaineBook 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.
UCLA CalRBSTHE 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