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Intermediate Hands-on Book Repair for Libraries – 2006 An Infopeople Workshop Fall 2006

Intermediate Hands-on Book Repair for Libraries – 2006 An Infopeople Workshop Fall 2006. Instructor Gillian C. Boal gboal@library.berkeley.edu. This Workshop Is Brought to You By the Infopeople Project.

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Intermediate Hands-on Book Repair for Libraries – 2006 An Infopeople Workshop Fall 2006

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  1. Intermediate Hands-on Book Repair for Libraries – 2006An Infopeople WorkshopFall 2006 Instructor Gillian C. Boal gboal@library.berkeley.edu

  2. This Workshop Is Brought to You By the Infopeople Project Infopeople is a federally-funded grant project supported by the California State Library. It provides a wide variety of training to California libraries. Infopeople workshops are offered around the state, and are open registration on a first-come first-served basis. For a complete list of workshops, and for other information about the Project, go to the Infopeople website at infopeople.org.

  3. Introductions • Name • Library • Position • Any previous experience or training with book repair? • What repair set up do you have?

  4. Workshop Overview Procedures and techniques to repair circulating collections in: • Public libraries • School libraries • College libraries Not applicable to collections in: • Special libraries • Special collections • Archives • Rare book repositories • Valuable historic collections

  5. Why Do In-House Repair? • Lower cost than replacement • Faster turnaround • Extends life of collection • Prevents more expensive repairs and replacements • Improves the look of collection • Leads by example

  6. When Making Repair Decisions Consider… • Condition • Use and need • Timeliness • Value: • provenance • binding • plates/illustrations

  7. Also Consider… • Institutional policies • Options available • Cost comparison • Staff ability vs. professional treatment

  8. Book Anatomy Quiz • Cover • Hinge/Joint • Text Block • Section • Fly Leaf/Free Leaf • Gutter • Fold-out • Plate • Hollow

  9. More - Book Anatomy Quiz • Stuck-on Endband • Crash/Mull/Super • Polyester Web • Warp and Weft • Handmade Paper • Machine-made Paper

  10. Conservation/Preservation • Preservation is the protection of cultural property and the prevention of loss of informational content • Conservation preserves and strengthens materials for continued use by examination, documentation, treatment, restoration, and stabilization

  11. Intermediate Repairs with Inexpensive Materials • Mending with wheat paste and Japanese paper • Hinging foldouts • Repairing sewing • Hollow tubes and flat back spine repair • Removal of staples, pressure-sensitive tape • Testing inks for solubility • Humidifying and flattening paper

  12. Advanced Repairs • Advanced repairs requiring specialized knowledge, materials, and tools • washing and deacidifying text blocks • replacing spine with leather and vellum • re-casing with new boards

  13. Library Binding inCommercial Bindery • Text block loose from covers with sewing broken in several places • Spine completely gone • Covers torn or partially missing • Hard covers for paperbacks – Mylar bind

  14. Tools We Use • Knives: snap blade, scalpels • Bonefolders: bone and teflon • Brushes, microspatulas • Erasers: Magic Rub, art gum, rubber cement pick up, dry-cleaning powders Most are easy to use, inexpensive, and easy to replace

  15. Materials and Supplies • Wheat starch paste • PVA – Poly vinyl acetate/methyl cellulose mixture • Japanese Papers • Western machine-made paper for hollow tubes

  16. Repairs • Review paper grain • Review cutting, tearing, and gluing • Hinge in foldouts with Japanese paper and Tyvek

  17. Exercise #1 Cutting, Tearing, and Gluing

  18. Exercise #2 Hinging Inserts with PVAand Tyvek

  19. Repair Sewing • Sew section into pamphlet • Sew sections back into book

  20. Exercise #3Sew Single Sections

  21. Exercise #4Sew Sections into Text Block

  22. Reattach and Repair Spines and Textblocks • Reattach broken text block • Make a hollow spine

  23. Exercise #5Reattaching Text Block Broken in Half

  24. Exercise #6Hollow Spine

  25. Repairs • Repair childrens’ books flat back binding • Repair large paper losses

  26. Exercise #7Children’s Book Flat Back Binding Repair

  27. Exercise # 8Repairing Paper Losses Using Japanese Paper andWheat Starch

  28. Consolidation & Tape Removal • Review of cleaning • consolidation of leather • Removing: • paperclips • staples • pressure-sensitive tape • barcodes

  29. Humidification and Flattening • Humidification and flattening • testing solubility of printing & manuscript inks in water • spray humidification • blotter damp pack

  30. Exercise #9 Testing Solubility of Inks

  31. Exercise #10 Humidifying and Flattening Paper

  32. Workflow Ideas • Identify problems • Round up the damaged books • Communicate about damage • Review candidates for repair and perform triage • Work in batches • Document completed repairs

  33. Recommendations • Order supplies from reliable sources • Get samples before ordering large quantities • Buy the best quality you can • Buy in larger quantities for best prices or batch order with other libraries • Keep all equipment and tools clean and sharp

  34. More Recommendations • Always clean up your work area when finished for the day • Develop book repair policies and procedures • Train staff who are interested in book repair and who have some manual dexterity • Integrate book repair activities into department’s responsibilities

  35. HAVE FUN! • Be patient with yourself while learning • It gets easier the more you do it AND • The books and your users will thank you!

  36. Acknowledgements and Thanks Illustrations and information is mainly gathered from the following sources: Collection Conservation Treatment: A resource Manual for Program Development and Conservation Technician Training, Compiled by Maralyn Jones, Conservation Department, University of California Berkeley.1993 Lavender, Kenneth. Book Repair:A How to do it Manual, Neal-Schuman Publishers, inc. 2001 Carol Dyal, Pete Merrill-Oldham. Three Basic Book Repair Procedures. N.d. Gaylord Catalog. 2004 Special thanks to: Margit Smith for developing the Basic Book Repair course and laying the foundation for some of the handouts for Intermediate Book Repair. Archival Products for supplying samples of the materials The various suppliers for providing their catalogues

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