Workshop on book collections maintenance and repair

Book Collections Maintenance & Repair Workshop
Sept 22-26 1997
Instructor: Gary Frost
NEH Scholarships Available

There are still openings for this five day resident workshop at the
stress-free Campbell Center in provincial Mt. Carroll Illinois. The
course is intended for library staff who have the actual day to day
responsibility for the repair of damaged volumes in circulating
collections. The course is based on the Collection Maintenance
Repair workshops developed by the AMIGOS Preservation Service in
Austin Texas. The instructor is from the Preservation/Conservation
Studies program at the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science at the UT in Austin.

The course will include (1) identification and selection of items
for repair, (2) protective enclosures, (3) paper mending techniques
and materials, (4) paperback reinforcement, (5) repair of
publishers' cloth bindings, (6) production goals.

Course fee: $600 (including accommodation)

Contact: Mary Wood Lee,  815-244-1173

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