Sewing frame
A wooden sewing frame was used to sew the signatures of the book onto alum-tawed leather thongs. more ›
Inside ZSR
Linen spine wrap
A piece of airplane linen was placed over the spine to strengthen it. Small holes were cut out for the sewing stations and leather thongs. more ›
Sewing the headbands
A leather thong is sewn over as a headband at the head and tail of the book. Linen thread is looped around the leather thong in a pattern which produces the headband, more ›
The template for the cover laid over a sheet of vellum
Because vellum is expensive, we made a template of our cover from 10 point board. more ›
Threading leather thongs through vellum
Connecting the vellum cover with the text block: the extra length of each thong is threaded through punched holes in the vellum cover. These thongs are then re-threaded inside the cover to secure them in place. This binding style was used during the 14th century, but is also similar to the Nag Hammadi bindings discovered... more ›
North Bennett Street School – Day 1
Limp Vellum Bookbinding The Limp (meaning the vellum is not stretched over a rigid board) Vellum Bookbinding course began with a discussion of this 14th century binding style. There is almost no adhesive used in this binding, since there is lots of sewing to hold it together. The binding is made up of a group... more ›
North Bennett Street School
On Tuesday, October 23, I journeyed to Boston to attend a workshop held at the venerable North Bennett Street School. The school was originally founded as a trade school in 1885 by The Boston Atheneum. NBSS now has full-time, 2 year programs in furniture, preservation carpentry, jewelry, violin-making, piano technology, locksmithing, and bookbinding. NBSS also... more ›
Cristina@NCLA
Carolyn and I presented a poster session titled “Utilizing ILL Deflection to Improve Workflow” on Thursday, October 18. Many fellow librarians stopped by and inquired about the new OCLC ILL deflection feature. As an ILL lender, we receive requests for all types of materials. Popular movies and TV series, such as 24 and Sex and... more ›
Erik@ASIS&T
Saturday was day 2 of the ASIS&T pre-conferences for me. Friday morning contained an interesting overview of DSpace and Saturday was a workshop on Classification Research. Presentations in the morning discussed tagging, building of communities through user-based categorization, and systems that support knowledge creation/SenseMaking. The discussions that grew out of the presentations focused on the... more ›
ASIS&T – Day 1 & 2
Internet being somewhat hard to come by at this conference, I took a few notes off line over the last few days & have summarized them for posting. The ASIS&T confernce kicked off sunday afternoon with a full slate of sessions. I attended a session that presented work on informaiton/service management systems. In this session... more ›