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Sorry it has taken so long. Here is a link to my Powerpoint on In- house Book Repair saved as an html file and with notes visible. http://home.comcast.net/~rfoust150/BookRepair/BookRepair.ppt.htm Below are my original "target" and the responses. Thanks again to all who replied. My original "target": > I've been given the opportunity to do an inservice of basic book > repair techniques that can be done in-house. I'm going to be > covering techniques that you can do in-house with a minimum of tools/ > equipment/supplies, but that can help lengthen the life expectancy of > the books. (I was fortunate to have some training in this in my > university's preservation/conservation department.) What I'm curious > about is the following: > > What in-house repairs, if any, do you do? > Do you ever send books out to be re-bound or do you prefer to replace > the damaged/worn copies with new? > What kinds of equipment/supplies do you have on hand for repair > (i.e., do you have a book press, special archival tapes/adhesives...)? > Have you found special tricks/repairs that work great for you in the > school media setting? (i.e., I know some of the techniques we did at > the university level aren't necessarily effective or needed, either > cost-wise or time wise, in the school library setting) The responses: > I have brushes, a flexible but strong glue from Demco, Book repair > tape, clear and colored cloth type. I also obtained some > hypodermic needles which I fill with glue and shoot down into > spines that are not totally shot. > > While I do try and mend, so many of my books are loved to death and > not much is going to resurrect them. I tend to replace really worn > out books with PTA funding. > > I have never sent a book out for rebinding and to be honest I am > not sure who I would send it to or how much it would cost. I > thought you did that only if the book was out of print, used often > and obviously not replaceable. > I have been doing book repairs for many years as a Para and TA in > the library and am looking forward to your HIT and PowerPoint. I > just want to do it the RIGHT way.Bottom line, we want these books > to last the test of time and abuse. > Generally, I do prefer to replace damaged books with > new but if possible I try to save money by repairing > first. >> What kinds of equipment/supplies do you have on hand >> for repair >> (i.e., do you have a book press, special archival >> tapes/adhesives...)? >> > I have a book press, but otherwise nothing special. Just various > tapes, a lot > of glue, and elbow grease. > >> Have you found special tricks/repairs that work >> great for you in the school media setting? > > Nothing special, no. Just common horse sense and being a bibliophile. > > Right now, I have some VERY BASIC repair supplies. . . several > different sizes of clear book tape, one size of skinny filament > tape, book glue, and rubber bands. I'll either glue or tape pages > back in with the filament tape, or glue a spine back on and put > rubber bands around it, or tape rips in pages. If it can't be > fixed somewhat with the supplies I have, I don't fix it. > Basically, I just try to get the book repaired enough so that it > won't fall apart for the next kid that checks it out, and I only > have repaired items I've noticed during circulation this year. > >I tape torn pages, glue spines and apply book tape to strengthen > them. > I usually send about a dozen books out for rebinding each year. > These are usually very popular titles, mostly nonfiction books, and > they are not easily replaced. Rule of thumb is that if I can get > it new for just a few dollars more, I'll buy new instead. > Rebinding is not cheap! I have a basic Kapco kit that I won in a > workshop drawing a couple of years ago. I use the Kapco glue and > 3M book tape for minor repairs. I also use the Kapco rubber bands > for holding books that have been glued. I don't attempt major > overhauls. > I find that the best practice is to repair small problems when they > first cross my desk and that prevents or delays more major > repairs. I keep good book tape at my circ desk and set needy books > aside until I have a minute to repair them. I usually do one or > two a day. I often have to reinforce paperbacks that are showing > excessive wear. I never do more than tape spines on those. When > they get too ratty, I toss them and buy new if usage warrants. > I cover paperback books with wide, clear tape (AFTER putting spine > labels, barcode labels, etc. on). Some white glue on the spine to > take care of a textbook that has been damaged, or to glue a page > back in, is the limit of my repair work. > Generally I replace books when they are that badly damaged. My > thinking is that if the book is old and damaged it probably is > outdated. New books that are severely damaged are paid for by the > student (or teacher) who damaged the book, and then the book is > replaced because we just bought it. NO special supplies or > equipment here. I did have those at my old school, but that was > left from when they were both a high school AND a junior college, > with appropriate college staff. The college division closed > several years before I came, and I was a one-man show. > We repair torn pages, loose signatures, endsheets loosening, torn > spines etc. > We do send books to a bindery occasionally. If we can replace it > at a reasonable cost we do that. Primarily we send things to the > bindery only if it heavily used for some part of the curriculum and > is no longer available (OP). No book press. 845 tape, Norbond > glue, single and double stitched binder tape. We are a school > library so do not usually bother with archival supplies---not cost > effective. Quite frankly we don't intend for books in a school > library to last for 100 years. > 3m booktape and a bottle of bindart are the extent of my book > repair. If those don't fix it, I toss and get a replacement. I > only send books to the bindery if they are OP. Sometimes if only a > paperback replacement is available I send the new paperback to the > bindery to become a hardcover. That costs around 15 dollars. Some > books like Eyewitness, Waldo , World Record Books are notorious for > falling apart and I reinforce the binding with book tape before the > first circ. > Ronda Y. Foust School Media Specialist in Training, UTK rstansb2@utk.edu Oak Ridge, TN http://thebookdragon.blogspot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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