Workshop on book repair

SOLINET, Inc., the Southeastern Library Network, is pleased to
announce this upcoming Book Repair workshop(Please excuse
cross-posting):

Fundamentals of Book Repair
Western Kentucky University,
Bowling Green KY
Wednesday-Thursday, September 11-12, 2003
8:30am-5pm.

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. Cost is $175 SOLINET
members, all membership categories, ($165 early bird, $200 late
registration); $215 Non-SOLINET members ($205 early bird, $240 late
registration). Any institution within Kentucky qualifies for the
member rate.

For more information or to register, contact

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

Or see <URL:http://www.solinet.net> for full descriptions and online
registration. These workshops are funded in part by a grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and
Access.


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