Preservation Services Staff were pleased to conduct a series
of workshops entitled “Book Repair on a Budget” for the Guilford County Schools
(GCS) Media Specialists on January 31 and February 1, 2018. We partnered with Tammy
Gruer, the GCS Director of Library Media Services, to design the workshops
based on requests from Media Specialists for a hands-on training to aid in
extending the life of their school library collections.
Suzanne Sawyer, UNCG Preservation Technician, teaching GCS Media Specialists about book repair |
With the understanding that the Media Specialists are
working on a limited budget and with very full schedules, our goal was to focus
on treatments that are relatively quick and easy to perform and that require
materials already on hand or that can be acquired inexpensively.
Demonstrating a book spine repair |
Corner repair |
Media Specialists rotated between two sessions on common
book repairs. One session covered paper mending and interior hinge repairs and
the other addressed spine and cover repairs.
Textblock in need of a consolidation repair |
Demonstrating interior hinge repair |
Ms. Gruer provided document cameras for each of our
presentations which allowed us to project our demonstrations in process for
each step of the treatments.
Audrey Sage, UNCG Preservation Services Manager, demonstrating a spine repair with the aid of a document camera |
The document cameras proved to be valuable tools
as the Media Specialists had a much better view of the techniques and were able
to more easily work along with us at their own work stations.
GCS Media Specialists learning about spine and cover repairs |
In addition to the workshops, we created a Book Repair LibGuide as a repository for a variety of resources including the presentations
we used in the workshops, online videos and manuals, and vendors for book
repair supplies.
Book Repair LibGuide created by Preservation Services |
We are grateful to UNCG’s Special Collections & University Archives for providing financial support so that we could also offer a gift bag
of sample book repair supplies and tools for the GCS Media Specialists.
We also plan to continue the partnership
between our staff and GCS’s Library Media Services so that we might provide
ongoing support for extending the life of school library book collections in
our community.
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