The Beginning Class of Book Repair at OPSU - supply list

I have been teaching a little preservation class on Sunday and Wednesday nights to local school librarians and colleagues. It's been going pretty well so far and will be better once everyone can get their hands dirty :) I'm placing a supply list, (put together by a student in the class), on the end of this little missive. It is a list of items in my preservation kit. We scavenged a good many of these items from around the school, like the beakers that were going to be tossed out from the science dept. I use the bigger ones to hold my glue brushes and the smaller ones to hold water while I work. That's my little preservation area in the photo. Most of those items have been scavenged. Saves a good bit of the budget that way.

What I didn't scavenge I bought at Dollar General or on the cheap from other stores, like the utility knives and the skewers. What I couldn't get there I bought at Gaylord.com (glue, brushes, etc.), talasonline.com (English paring knife, metal rulers), Demco.com (clear book tape), or other preservation site. Look around for the best prices, that is the best way to work it! I also have a little tool kit where I keep my knives, scissors, band aids (a must have), pencils, bone folders, cotton gloves and cleaning sponges. It's nice to have a little tool kit for holding your tools.

Remember, you can always substitute coffee cups (I have a few from vacations that I never use), old utensil holders, clean coffee cans, etc, for beakers...use your imagination. I use clean cottage cheese or yogurt containers, with an air tight lid, for glue. An old clothes iron from home if you don't have a book iron. Anything you can reuse - reuse. The old boards from a hardback, if they aren't damaged, can be reused. If a book is falling apart and it is cheaper to reorder the book, salvage what you can and reuse the salvaged items on another book. Any thing you can do to save money and time, I always say :) Here's the list. I hope it helps you to build your preservation area.

ITEM	VENDOR				Must Have
1/2" Glue brush -- boars bristles	Gaylord.com				X
Apron	scavenge or make your own!
Band-aids	scavenge, buy cheap				X
Bone folder (cow or Teflon)	Gaylord.com				X
Book press	Gaylord.com
Box cutter /utility knives	Hardware store, Dollar General				X
Bricks	scavenge				X
Brushes -- many sizes	Hardware, Art, etc.				X
Cambric tape	Gaylord.com
Cheesecloth	scavenge, WalMart
or Super-cloth (starched)	Gaylord.com
Clamps	Big Lots, Dollar Store. Find in Automotive or hardware area
Davy board	reuse boards or salvage from other source. Buy new from Gaylord.com				X
Emergency Response Wheel	Gaylord.com
English Paring knife -- right handed	TALAS
Book knife	Gaylord.com				X
Exacto knife & extra blades	Hardware store or Gaylord.com				X
Formula 409 -- for clean up	grocery store				X
Glue sticks - acid free	Gaylord.com
Metallic sharpies	Office store
Nail clippers	Drugstore
Paper Towels	scavenge				X
Pencils (NEVER PENS!)	scavenge				X
Poly-vinyl adhesive-ph neutral	Gaylord.com				X
Recycled paper -- scrap	scavenge				X
Ruler with metal edge	Office store				X
Scissors -- several	scavenge				X
Scotch tape - to tape the skewers to the re-cased book.	scavenge
Self-healing pad	Sewing store/section				X
Sm. Cutting boards	Dollar Store
Sm. Squirt Bottle	scavenge
Sponge (dry cleaning)	Gaylord.com
Sponge brush(es)	Hardware store
Steel rulers or alternate:	Gaylord.com				X
Alt. - T-square with tape measure added	hardware store
Tweezers -- big & curvy, nice	Drugstore or Gaylord
Wax paper	grocery store				X
WD-40 Pen	Hardware store
White cotton gloves	Gaylord.com
WHITE ERASER	Gaylord.com
Wooden Skewers - cut off ends	grocery store, Dollar General				X

The Preservation Bibliography - Books

These are excellent monographs to help you get started or to enhance your preservation activities. They cover topics ranging from preservation management and collection care, book repair, constructing boxes, care of photographs, and disaster planning. Some of these items are older and out of date, but the information is still pertinent. Find them through your Inter-Library Loan program before you purchase. We hope these items will help you on your way to develop a great program for your library. I have linked the titles with Amazon.com and other book sellers to help you on your way.

Preservation Bibliography

Planning and Management

Bachmann, Konstanze. eds. Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Pressn.d. ISBN-10: 1560981741

Baird, Brian J. Preservation Strategies for Small Academic and Public Libraries. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003. ISBN-10: 0810843536

Banks, Paul N., and Roberta Pilette. Preservation: Issues and Planning. Chicago: ALA, 2000. ISBN-10: 0838907768

Calvi, Elise, Yvonne Carignan, Liz Dube, and Whitney Pape. The Preservation Manager's Guide to Cost Analysis. Chicago: ALA, 2006. ISBN 0-8389-8365-0

Drewes, Jeanne M., and Julie A. Page. eds. Promoting Preservation Awareness in Libraries: A Source-book for Academic, Public, School, and Special Collections. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN 0-313-30206-5

Guide to Collections Care: Paper, Photographs, Textiles, & Books. Syracuse, NY: Gaylord.com, 2005. Free from Gaylord Brothers

Bookcraft: Simple Techniques for the Maintenance and Repair of Books. Syracuse, NY: Gaylord.com, 2005. Free from Gaylord Brothers

Higginbotham, Barbra B., and Judith W. Wild. The Preservation Program Blueprint.Vol. 6. Chicago: ALA, 2001. ISBN 0-8389-0802-0

Lowry, Marcia D. Preservation and Conservation in the Small Library. : LAMA small libraries publication series, 1989. ISBN 0-8389-5718-8

Managing Preservation: A Guidebook. : State Library of Ohio; Ohio Preservation Council, 1995. ASIN B0010X8SPK

Merrill-Oldham, Jan, and Merrily Smith. eds. The Library Preservation Program: Models, Priorities, Possibilities. Chicago: ALA, 1985. ISBN 0-8389-3315-7

Ogden, Sherelyn. Preservation Planning: Guidelines for Writing a Long-Range Plan. Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 1997. ISBN 0-931201-45-4

Sagraves, Barbara. A Preservation Guide: Saving the Past & the Present for the Future.Canada: ANCESTRY, 1995. ISBN 0-916489-59-0

Basic to Advanced Book Repair

Lavender, Kenneth. Book Repair: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-to-Do-It Manuals for
Libraries, No. 107) (How to Do It Manuals for Librarians). 2nd ed. New York:
Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2001. ISBN-10: 1555704085

Lewis, A. W. Basic Bookbinding. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957.
ISBN-10: 0486201694

McQueen, Sharon. In-House Book Binding and Repair. Lanham, MD: The
Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005. ISBN-10: 0810852241

Ogden, Sherelyn. eds. Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual.
Andover, MA: Northeast Document, 1994. ISBN-10: 0963468529

Schechter, Abraham A. Basic Book Repair Methods. Englewood, Col.: Libraries
Unlimited, Inc., 1999. ISBN-10: 1563087006

Shep, Robert L. Cleaning, Repairing and Caring for Books. Bodmin, United Kingdom:
MPG Books Limited, 2000. ISBN-10: 1872699022

Constructing Boxes – Advanced Book Repair

Webberly, Marilyn, and JoAn Forsyth. Books, Boxes & Wraps: Binding & Building Step-
by-Step. Kirkland, Wash.: Bifocal Publishing, 1998. ISBN-10: 1886475008

Bertonaschi, John, and Margaret R. Brown. Boxes for the Protection of Books: Their
Design and Construction. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Directorate Coll Gress,
1994. ISBN-10: 0844407976

Preservation of Photographs

Frisch-Ripley, Karen. Unlocking the Secrets in Old Photographs. Salt Lake City, Ut.:
Ancestry, 1991. ISBN-10: 0916489507

Jurgens, Martin C. The Digital Print: Identification and Preservation. Los Angeles: Getty
Publications, 2009. ISBN-10: 0892369604

Lavedrine, Bertrand. A Guide to the Preventive Conservation of Photograph Collections.
Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2003. ISBN-10: 0892367016

Preservation of Photographs (Kodak publication ; no. F-30). Rochester, N.Y.: Eastman
Kodak Company, 1979.

Tuttle, Craig A. An Ounce of Preservation: A Guide to the Care of Papers &
Photographs. Highland City, Fla.: Rainbow Books, Inc., 1995.
ISBN-10: 1568250215

Disaster Planning

Brooks, Constance. Preservation Planning Program: Disaster Preparedness. Chicago:
Association of Research Libraries, 2006. ISBN-10: 0918006651

Halsted, Deborah D., Richard P. Jasper, and Felicia M. Little. Disaster Planning: A How-
to-Do-It Manual for Libraries (Book & CD-ROM). New York: Neal-Schuman
Publishers, 2005. ISBN-10: 1555704867

Kahn, Miriam. Disaster Response and Planning for Libraries. Chicago: ALA, 2002.
ISBN-10: 0838908373

The Preservation Bibliography - Websites

• Archival Products presents elegant solutions for preservation for colleges and universities, museums, historical societies, art and music libraries, medical schools and government offices as well as for the private conservator. http://www.archival.com/

• Three Basic Book Repair Procedures from the BookArtsWeb - http://www.philobiblon.com/bkrepair/BookRepair.html

• Conservation Book Repair: A training manual by Artemis BonaDea - http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/conman.html

• CoOL - an online resource operated by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials. It is a growing online resource for conservators, collection care specialists, and other conservation professionals. It's great for Book Repair also. http://cool.conservation-us.org/

• The web version of the Simple Book Repair Manual was created by members of Preservation Services, Dartmouth College Library. Copyright 1996 the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. All rights reserved. Permission is granted for copying and redistribution as long as this copyright notice is included. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/preservation/repair/index.html

• Harvard University Preservation Guidelines beginning with Collections Care- http://preserve.harvard.edu/care/index.html

• A tutorial on library preservation and conservation - http://www.librarypreservation.org/

• Digital Preservation at the Library of Congress - http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/index.html

• Environmental Monitoring Survey - http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/survey/

• This website provides simple instructions, as well as links to more comprehensive information for “Preparing, Protecting, Preserving” many types of family treasures. http://www.loc.gov/preserv/familytreasures/index.html

• A multitude of websites from the Penn State University Libraries Digitization and Preservation section - http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digipres/internet.html

• North East Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) is a leader in providing preservation information to museums, libraries, archives, historical organizations, and other cultural institutions, as well as to private individuals. Preservation Leaflets - http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets.list.php

• Tippecanoe County Public Library -The following Internet links are drawn from a variety of academic, library and individual sources on book care and repair. They cover general care and specific conditions, bookbinding terms and supplies, and additional Internet resources. Links to newspaper and document care have also been added. http://www.tcpl.lib.in.us/find-a-good-book/book-care-and-repair

The Preservation Bibliography - Newsletters

• The Archival Products Newsletter is specifically written for libraries and published quarterly. http://www.archival.com/newsletters/index.shtml

• While the Abbey Newsletter is no longer published, you may still access many of the articles. http://cool.conservation-us.org/byorg/abbey/an/

• The Newsletter of the Society of the American Archivists Preservation Section http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/preserv/prindex.htm

• National Park Service Conserve O Grams are short, focused leaflets about caring for museum objects, published in loose-leaf format. New topics are added as needed and out-of-date issues are revised or deleted. Semiannual supplements will be issued for an indeterminate period. For library information use sections 19 - 22. http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/publications/conserveogram/cons_toc.html

• The Commission on Preservation and Access Newsletter Archive was published by the Commission on Preservation and Access until the Commission merged with the Council on Library Resources to form CLIR in 1997 http://www.clir.org/pubs/cpanews/cpanews.html