{"id":4395,"date":"2015-12-28T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2016-02-22T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:03:24","slug":"highlights-from-2015-diy-collections-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2015\/12\/28\/highlights-from-2015-diy-collections-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from 2015: DIY Collections Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book from the circulating collection recently came back from inter-library loan in need of some intervention from\u00a0Susan Hansen, Book Repair Supervisor at the Libraries\u2019 Preservation &amp; Conservation department. \u00a0The copy of <em>The Origin of the Domestic Animals of Africa <\/em>showed quite a bit of damage, perhaps from an encounter\u00a0with a domestic animal of the American sort.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4398\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4398 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape3-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"duck tape3\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape3-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape3-1024x646.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4396 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape1-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"duck tape1\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape1-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape1-1024x696.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4397\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4397 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape2-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"duck tape2\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape2-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2015\/12\/duck-tape2-1024x455.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The book&#8217;s condition also evidenced collections care from an amateur conservator.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The patron did consider condition and access when pulling together the book and returning it as close to complete as s\/he received it, but their choice of materials required attention.<\/span><\/span>\u201c\u2026I\u2019ll put it this way: it\u2019s the most duck taped item I\u2019ve seen,\u201d stated Ms. Hansen, well-seasoned in the art and practice of book repair.\u00a0The patron took great care in reattaching the front cover to the spine using both duck tape and clear packaging tape. \u00a0The clear tape was used, likely, so that the spine and important information would be visible.<\/p>\n<p>Susan reattached the cover to the spine of the book and reattached the inside cover to the front page, replacing the title page with a facsimile. \u00a0From the Preservation &amp; Conservation department the book will move to a commercial binder where the pages will be uniformly trimmed to remove as much of the damaged area as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book from the circulating collection recently came back from inter-library loan in need of some intervention from\u00a0Susan Hansen, Book Repair Supervisor at the Libraries\u2019 Preservation &amp; Conservation department. \u00a0The copy of The Origin of the Domestic Animals of Africa showed quite a bit of damage, perhaps from an encounter\u00a0with a domestic animal of the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2015\/12\/28\/highlights-from-2015-diy-collections-care\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Highlights from 2015: DIY Collections Care&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,12],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395"}],"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\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4408,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}