Jovana Ivezic, our new Senior Conservation Technician, started work at the end of March just as we were settling into the Governor’s work from home order. Jovana comes to Duke from the Library of Congress where she was a library technician. There she performed a variety of repairs from new spines, paper repairs, and at least one very large post binding.
She housed over 2000 items from the LC Collections in the three years she was there. These skills will come in very handy once we are back onsite and we start making enclosures for our regular workflows and the Lilly Enabling project.
What is your favorite tool?
What is your favorite treatment?
My favorite treatment is a new case, especially in a three-quarters style binding. Nothing more satisfying than giving a sad, beaten up book some new life.
What’s it like starting a new job during a worldwide pandemic?
Do you have a memorable treatment you can share?
Here you can see an oversized atlas from the Library of Congress’s Geography & Maps division.
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Due to its extraordinary size, the acidic nature of its pages, and the fact that this atlas was a frequently handled item, I decided that a post binding was the best housing choice. A post binding allows for safer handling by patrons, while protecting the original material better than a regular clamshell or four-flap box ever could.
Draga Jovana,
Ne mogu da ti opisem koliko sam ponosna na tebe!
Izgleda kao da je filmska zvezda dosla na Duke’s Departmant…
Tvoj prvi odgovor za skalpel i trougao je super!!!
Neka ti je srecan pocetak novog zivota.
Ljubimo te ,
Svetlana i Misa