Thursday, January 13, 2011 Binding a 10,000 page book is no small task! You can’t get your hands around all 10,000 pages at once so the book needs to be assembled into smaller units and then bound together using a specially constructed press to hold everything in place, nicely squared up, until the book textContinue reading “Big Book Explained”
Category Archives: Community, outreach, education, and events
Colfax flood
Thursday, August 19, 2010 A team from the University of Iowa and the State Historical Society of Iowa spent two days early this week assisting Colfax Historical Society members with evacuating collections from their flood-damaged museum. The museum was in the middle of a new building project next door to the current museum when theContinue reading “Colfax flood”
Outing to a Conservation Lab and Archives
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 This afternoon we went to Bruges to visit the conservation school which is a part of SYNTRA West. The students and teacher provided many demonstrations. We learned that wet paper needs a support when handling the paper or it will tear. We also saw several different ways of making boxes andContinue reading “Outing to a Conservation Lab and Archives”
OLLI Creating Post-Bound Digital Photo Album Class
Friday, April 16, 2010 This is the fourth class that we have taught for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. It’s a lot of fun introducing students to the joys (and trials) of working in a conservation lab. All the material is pre-cut for the class participants ready for them to assemble. Well, almost ready toContinue reading “OLLI Creating Post-Bound Digital Photo Album Class”
Print-on-Demand Lecture
Monday, March 22, 2010 This afternoon, Brian Baird, Vice President for Library Services, Bridgeport National Bindery, presented an overview of print on demand operations from the factory floor including an early review of the PUR (new adhesive) technology. It appears that high speed copier books are now approaching a large portion of the print acquisitions.Continue reading “Print-on-Demand Lecture”
Maximizing Poster Space
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 I have a cool tip that I thought I’d pass along. Last week we decided to take a poster to the American Library Association preservation section meeting describing how the flood and other recent events have impacted our department. Hauling a poster through the airport and onto an airplane is noContinue reading “Maximizing Poster Space”
Flood-Damaged Phonograph Records Sent Home
Friday, December 18, 2009 A much awaited event finally arrived. We returned close to 1,500 sound recordings to David Muhlena, Library Director for the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids. Cleaning the records was very labor intensive. We began our work in July 2008, working in the Paper Lab cleaning offContinue reading “Flood-Damaged Phonograph Records Sent Home”
Endless Possibilities Grand Opening
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Last night I attended a reception for the grand opening of the African American Museum of Iowa’s permanent exhibit “Endless Possibilities” which traces the journey of Iowa’s African Americans. This event was also a farewell to curator Susan Kuecker who is moving to Pittsburgh. Susan and I have crossed paths manyContinue reading “Endless Possibilities Grand Opening”
Presenting to the Iowa Special Libraries Association
Monday, November 9, 2009 On Nov. 6 Beth and I gave a presentation to the Iowa Special Libraries Association in Lindquist Hall. It was one of our first experiences presenting the flood project. It was a good feeling to see how interested people are in what we have been doing. The talk was scheduled toContinue reading “Presenting to the Iowa Special Libraries Association”
OLLI Students Create Post-Bound Photo Albums
Monday, November 2, 2009 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute students spent two Mondays making a post-bound photo album in the University of Iowa Libraries conservation lab guided by preservation assistant Bill Voss and two Mondays with preservation librarian Nancy E Kraft learning about digital photo layout. Although most of the material was pre-cut, there was stillContinue reading “OLLI Students Create Post-Bound Photo Albums”