Workshop on book repair

Fundamentals of Book Repair
Duke University, Durham, NC
Tuesday-Wednesday, May 7-8, 2002
8:30 am-5 pm

This two-day workshop is designed for staff members who perform book
repair in libraries and those who supervise repair units. The
workshop teaches simple, economical, and preservation quality
repairs for materials in general, circulating and reference
collections. The procedures covered are tightening hinges, endsheet
replacement, spine replacement, paper mending, tip-ins and
hinge-ins.

The workshop will *not* cover techniques for the repair of materials
that are special, rare, or archival. Instructors are Christine
Wiseman, SOLINET Preservation Education Officer and Ann Frellsen,
Conservator, Emory University.

Cost is $155 SOLINET members, all membership categories, ($145 early
bird, $180 late registration); $195 Non-SOLINET members, ($185 early
bird, $220 late registration). Any institution within North Carolina
qualifies for the member rate.

Note: This workshop is co-sponsored by the North Carolina
Preservation Consortium (NCPC).  NCPC members may request
reimbursement for half of the registration fee.  For more
information, Please contact Roger Loyd, roger.loyd [at] duke__edu or
919-660-3452.

Partial funding for these workshops has been provided by a grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of
Preservation and Access.

For more information or to register, contact

    Vanessa Richardson
    800-999-8558
    vanessa_richardson [at] solinet__net

or visit <URL:http://www.solinet.net> for full descriptions and
online registration.


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