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Laboratorio de conservacion Nicolas Yapuguay Del Fondo Antiguo de la compana...
During my stay in Buenos Aires in March this year I visited the Fondo Antiguo de Jesus, on Callao Ave, in the centre of Buenos Aires, close to my apartment. I had walked past this Jesuit church and...
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On a bookbinding journey thanks to the Kenneth Binns Travelling Scholarship
The Kenneth Binns Travelling Fellowship is an internal Library grant awarded to a staff member in the first seven years of their career. I was lucky enough to win the scholarship to further my...
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Practising paring, ploughing and paperwork.
I’ve been rather quietly lately about the goings-on in the bindery. I guess it’s all become routine, and I forget that from the outside Preservation might seem like a mysterious place. Practise makes...
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Reattaching the spine of a book, or rebacking
Ever had the spine of a book fall off into your hands? Would your first brilliant thought be: “I’d better glue this back on before it gets lost.”? The idea of keeping the spine intact and with the book...
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A day in the life of the bindery
When asked, I usually tell people I come to work to do craft every day. It’s true; I wear a glue smeared apron, cut paper with scalpel knives and play with glue. The week really starts on a Wednesday;...
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All in a day’s disaster.
The words “leak”, “drip” and “fire” make me anxious. I don’t even want to contemplate the amount of work a leaking pipe would create, let alone a full scale fire with sprinklers going off. Last month...
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Proeschel Atlas Conservation: Part 1 – Bindings
The National Library of Australia holds a significant collection of bound and loose maps produced by the Melbourne-based, 19th century Cartographer, Frederick Proeschel (1809-1870). In 2012 a project...
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Cleaning in the Rare Books stack
We have books here; we have millions of books, and like books anywhere, they gather dust. A special project has just begun to protect and prevent further damage to our Rare Books. With the...
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Proeschel Atlas Conservation: Part 3 – Repair
This is part three of a series on the conservation of each copy of Frederick Proeschel’s ‘Atlas containing a map of Australasia, 1863’, in the National Library. Part one focused on the Bindings and...
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Proeschel Atlas Conservation: Part 4 – Conservation techniques
This is the final blogpost in this series on the Proeschel Atlas Conservation Project. This post focuses on some of the different book conservation repair techniques undertaken on each of the three...
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