Identifying standard practices in research library book conservation

Library Resources and Technical Services

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-39

  Baker, Whitney ^a   Dube, Liz ^b  

^a Kansas University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 77149133089     PISSN: 00242527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/lrts.54n1.21     Document Type: Article

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15. Grandinette and Silverman, "Book Repair in the USA.", Ibid., 275.
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25. Grandinette and Silverman, "Book Repair in the USA," 279.
26. Highlights from the extensive literature on board reattachments include Anthony Cains and Katherine Swift, Preserving Our Printed Heritage: The Long Room Project at Trinity College (Dublin: Trinity College Library, 1988)
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36. Brian Baird and Mick LeTourneaux, "Treatment 305: A Collections Conservation Approach to Rebinding," Book and Paper Group Annual 13 (1994): 1-4.
37. Randy Silverman and Maria Grandinette, "Checklist of Primary Bibliographical Evidence Contained in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Publishers' Bookbindings" (handout, American Institute for Conservation Library Collections Conservation Discussion Group meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1995)
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46. See, for example, Gay Walker et al., "The Yale Survey: A Large-Scale Condition Survey of Book Deterioration in the Yale University Library," College & Research Libraries 46, no.2 (Mar. 1985): 111-131
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62. Young and Kyrillidou, ARL Preservation Statistics, 2005-2006
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