Colleen Theisen took a trip up to the Conservation Lab to meet with Kristen Hartman to find out about two “batch treatments” that she had been working on. Large sets of similar books needing a similar repair. Large and small, they fix them all!

Part two of this series features the most adorable set of tiny Shakespeare tomes that needed some TLC to make it possible to squint again at the Bard’s famous words. Stick around to the end for the big reveal to see the repairs finished and the ingenious box that conservation staff member Heather Bain made for this set and their adorably tiny spinning bookcase.

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Just in case you missed the last video, here is Kristen taking on a much larger set of treatments on some amazing natural history books that survived the library fire in 1897!