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At the Book Spa: Paper Repair

10/8/2025

“Whoops, I’ve torn a page of my book. That’s okay, I’ve got some handy tape right here, I’ll just fix it right up. Probably the Library folks will thank me….”(cue sound of record scratching)This has…

A damaged book has been sent to Preservation because multiple pages were torn out.

At the Book Spa: Replacing Missing Pages

7/8/2024

Welcome back to the Book Spa, where the Preservation unit of the Special Collections Research Center shows you how we care for and rehabilitate books that are in the midst of a hard life. This…

An adhesive bind in progress.

At The Book Spa! Adhesive Bind

11/21/2023

 Welcome back to another episode of At The Book Spa! Last time we talked about that great little treatment, the Spine Repair. This time we’re going to get a little more invasive with the book,…

The old cloth on the cover is peeled back to make room for a new cloth spine.

At the Book Spa! Spine Repair

9/5/2023

If you saw our blog post on July 24, 2023, you’ll remember we gave a general overview of the work that is done in the Libraries’ Preservation Unit. Today we’re taking a deeper dive and starting…