On Friday, November 16, I attended a symposium on electronic records storage at the Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill. Once inside, I had the pleasure of listening to the always intriguing Helen Tibbo, UNC-CH-SILS, and also saw colleagues Kathy Wisser, of NCEcho and Elizabeth Hull, UNC Photo Archivist and NCPC Board member. The keynote was... more ›
My notes from the Charleston Conference: Two speakers mentioned The World is Flat as a must-read. It’s checked out right now, so I’ll have to tell you later if it’s any good! I attended two sessions where ProQuest presented the results of their research into student research behavior. In a plenary session, Jane Burke suggested... more ›
Charleston is just about the sweetest place for a library conference ever. Bill and I drove down Tuesday and I read a really interesting book in the car, Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester. Members of the Coffee Shop Group and 4th floor Renovation Team will want to read Chapter... more ›
Sam Ellenport, proprietor of the Harcourt Bindery gave me a tour of their shop. Harcourt has been a commercial fine bindery since 1905 in several locations in Boston. They do it all- I saw a little gold tooling work by a NBSS graduate while on tour. more ›
The entrance to NBSS- a craft school which has been teaching for 100 years in Boston’s north end-just 2 doors down from the Old North Church. more ›
A wooden sewing frame was used to sew the signatures of the book onto alum-tawed leather thongs. more ›
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 ›
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 ›
Because vellum is expensive, we made a template of our cover from 10 point board. more ›
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 ›