{"id":2862,"date":"2014-04-22T17:03:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2014-04-22T17:03:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T17:03:44","slug":"drying-a-wet-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/04\/22\/drying-a-wet-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Drying a Wet Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, April 22, 2014<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-half\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_7245Blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Interleafing a Wet Book\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_7245Blog-300x192.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-half ezcol-last\">As a Preservation Librarian, I should know better than to read a book while taking a spa bath. Last week I did just that and dropped my book into the tub. Oops! Luckily I caught it before it was entirely submerged.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ezcol-divider\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-half\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_7242Blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pressing the Damp Book\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_7242Blog.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-half ezcol-last\">\n<p>I took immediate action. I grabbed some copy paper from our home printer and folded the paper in half and interleafed every few pages to start soaking up the water. Then I put the book into a &#8220;press&#8221; by using a cutting board and cast iron skillets. The press helps by putting a little pressure on the book to blot up the water and to keep the pages somewhat flat. The next day I pulled out the wet interleafing paper and inserted new but in slightly different spots.<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ezcol-divider\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-half\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_7249Blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Drying Interleafing Paper\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_7249Blog.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-half ezcol-last\">I laid out the wet interleafing paper to dry so I could re-use. I repeated this process over several days.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ezcol-divider\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-half\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_7256Blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dried Book Showing a Little Edge Curl\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2014\/04\/IMG_7256Blog-300x186.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"ezcol ezcol-one-half ezcol-last\">The book is now dry but does show some evidence that it had been wet. If the book in question had been a book of value to me, I would have put the book in a zip-lock bag, stuck it in the freezer, and later taken it to a conservator.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ezcol-divider\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, April 22, 2014 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}