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view of a closed book with damage to spine visible
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  • Evyn Kropf
Next week: Spotlight on Conservation
Join us next Thursday, 19 September between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
pages of lines of calligraphic text in two forms of Arabic script
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  • Amy Crist
Treatments for two calligraphy albums
Another post on conservation work completed by our summer 2023 Baker Fellow, Katarina Stiller, this time for two calligraphy albums from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.
interior scene with row of beds, girl rising up from one of them, and dwarves peeking in through the window
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  • Amy Crist
Get Those Books Moving : Part 4
Another installment in our series of posts on conservation work for pop-up and moveable books, this time from Katarina Stiller, summer 2023 Baker Fellow at the U-M Library's conservation lab
two women standing at a bench face each other in conversation as one works on a book
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  • Marieka Kaye
This Friday: Ask a Conservator Day!
Do you have questions about how our conservators care for our collection materials? 4th November is #AskAConservator Day! Conservators Marieka Kaye and Amy Crist will be responding to your questions over on Twitter.
The engraving on the gem shows a man in a loincloth bent over, cutting stalks of wheat with a hooked tool
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  • Shannon Zachary
Courtesy University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center
Have you been traveling? Visiting exhibits at museums and libraries? Check out materials from our collections currently out on loan for exhibition!
Photographs show before (left) and after (right) treatment. The matching adhesive stains can be seen on the back of the map and the back cover of the scrapbook. The “after treatment” photo shows the final step of treatment which involves placing each page into a Mylar “L” sleeve, protecting the object while keeping it accessible.
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  • Brooke Murphy
Behind the Scenes of Book Conservation: International Good Roads Tour Scrapbook
Conservation Technician, Brooke Adams, describes the complex treatment of an International Good Roads Tour Scrapbook, part of SCRC's Transportation History Collection. The scrapbook was compiled by William Sydnor Gilbreath Sr., a businessman and strong supporter of the Good Roads Movement (GRM). The scrapbook was created during Gilbreath’s participation in the 1920 International Good Roads Tour through Michigan and southeastern Ontario.
spines of three bound books stacked on top of each other
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  • Marieka Kaye
Special Collections After Hours | Kelmscott at the Special Collections Research Center
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (12 April) at 4 pm EDT for our final After Hours virtual open house of the term featuring the collection of William Morris’s Kelmscott Press books held at the Special Collections Research Center
image of an open pop-up book with view of koala bear leaping into pond surrounded by cattails and frogs
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  • Amy Crist
Get Those Books Moving : Part 3
Third in a series of guest posts from Shaoyi Qian, summer 2021 Baker Fellow at the U-M Library's conservation lab, describing her work on several pop-up and moveable books.
cover a book with writing above and below a colored drawing of a boat on the sea with fish
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  • Amy Crist
Get Those Books Moving : Part 2
Second in a series of guest posts from Shaoyi Qian, summer 2021 Baker Fellow at the U-M Library's conservation lab, describing her work on several pop-up and moveable books.
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  • Amy Crist
Get Those Books Moving : Part 1
First in a series of guest posts from Shaoyi Qian, summer 2021 Baker Fellow at the U-M Library's conservation lab, describing her work on several pop-up and moveable books