When Is Big Too Big?

Today I received another big book in the Preservation Lab for repair that has split apart in the back, so … More

Send to Preservation for Repair!

What do the four titles Marketing Research; Drinking Water; Herbs, Health and Cookery; and Tigers in the Emerald Forest all … More

One Friday afternoon when the book truck of injured books from Circulation was delivered to the conservation lab, a book … More

Mindy Moe thought this might be a cigarette burn caused by some hot ash or a cigarette itself falling into … More

We have had a rash of bad modern publisher’s bindings come through the lab lately. Not because some publisher decided … More