{"id":1250,"date":"2009-08-26T16:34:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2009-08-26T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:34:48","slug":"paper-to-digital-to-paper-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/08\/26\/paper-to-digital-to-paper-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper to Digital to Paper Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, August 26, 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A UI prof and grad student were interested in getting a digital copy of Cursus Literaturae Sinicae, a 19th C. translation of classical Chinese texts into Latin in five volumes.\u00a0 When the volumes came via ILL from Notre Dame,\u00a0they were\u00a0scanned\u00a0using the overhead scanner with the gradation curve set to give as white a background as possible, since it was determined that we should also print out a copy of the scans and bind them for our own circulating collection.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what they look like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/08\/blog-dscn0965.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1252     aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/08\/blog-dscn0965.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0sheets from the printer were\u00a0perfect bound with the double fan press.\u00a0 To account for the swelling in such large volumes we decided the backs should be rounded, which was accomplished with the aid of a couple of cardboard map tubes at the fore edge.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/08\/blog-dscn0962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1251\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/08\/blog-dscn0962.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/08\/blog-dscn0963.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1266\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/08\/blog-dscn0963.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For the first volume (at left above) only three spine linings were used: kozo, acrylic\/cotton super, paper.\u00a0 As this volume had a lot of throw up, subsequent volumes got additional linings: kozo\/cotton super\/paper\/cotton\/paper, which worked better.\u00a0 Hopefully they will stand up well to frequent use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, August 26, 2009 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A UI prof and grad student were interested in getting a digital copy of Cursus Literaturae Sinicae, a 19th C. translation of classical Chinese texts into Latin in five volumes.\u00a0 When the volumes came via ILL from Notre Dame,\u00a0they were\u00a0scanned\u00a0using the overhead scanner with the gradation curve set to give<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/08\/26\/paper-to-digital-to-paper-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Paper to Digital to Paper Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}