We love getting Boxing Day books from Rubenstein Library Technical Services, especially pulps from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. When you open the crate, you never know what you are going to get. Today the crate was filled with Horror! Fantasy! Choose your own adventure tales! All with some pretty amazing cover art. Happy Halloween! … Continue reading When Halloween Is Like A Box of Chocolates
It’s annual report writing time! Since we shared our stats in the past years, I thought we would write again this year as well. I love statistics, probably a little too much. Due to the renovation and the resultant problems, our productivity is slightly down because we had to close the lab for a month … Continue reading FY 2014 By The Numbers
Happy New Year from the 1091 Project. This month we are looking at the year ahead and discussing what is looming on our horizons. Maybe we will make a resolution or two for good measure. As many of you know the library is undergoing a renovation that is slated to be finished in 2015. Conservation … Continue reading 1091 Project: Looking Ahead To 2014
Long time readers will remember that almost three years ago we embarked on a project to rehouse our papyri collection. It began with an idea and a prototype in 2010. When the renovation project was announced, we had to begin in earnest. That was in February 2012. This week we labeled the boxes and I’m … Continue reading Finishing A Three-Year Long Project: Priceless!
This month the 1091 project is all about enclosures. Boxes. Wrappers. Tuxedos. Clams. You name it, we make it. In fact, last fiscal year we fitted or made over 8,500 enclosures. We love boxes so much we created Boxing Day, which has grown to two days a month. I’ve written before about why we create … Continue reading 1091 Project: Making Enclosures
A while ago we were trying to come up with a new housing strategy for our papyri collection. We finally moved the project from the conceptual stage to the production stage last week! The collection is currently housed in oversized boxes with only a slip of blotter or paper between the glass packets. The papyri … Continue reading Papyri Rehousing Project Begins
Today, October 8th, marks the one year anniversary of the launch of The Devil’s Tale, our sister blog from the Rare Books, Manuscript and Special Collections Library (and University Archives!). To celebrate we bring our readers a list of some of our favorite Devil’s Tale posts over the past year. “Welcome to the Devil’s Tale,” … Continue reading Happy Anniversary Devil’s Tale!
It’s Manuscript Day in the lab, similar to Boxing Day, wherein we all work on flat paper repair. Today we are continuing the Broadside Project, getting these items ready for their close up in the Digital Production Center. North Carolina is this month’s project, and this little gem caught my eye. It’s from the New … Continue reading Here’s Your Mule
Starting in summer 2008, Duke Libraries Digital Collections Program has partnered with the Carolina Digital Library and Archives at UNC-Chapel Hill to pilot test their Internet Archive Scribe scanning station. Since then, we’ve digitized nearly 300 titles on the UNC-Chapel Hill Scribe, including Duke’s yearbook The Chanticleer from 1912-1995, Utopian literature, Victorian women’s literature, advertising … Continue reading The Scribe Project
We have been on a Big Book Box roll lately. Last week you read about a boxing project for two large “boxed withs” (is that a real term in library land?). This week we bring you another multi-piece set that posed some challenges. “Whatever You Say, Say Nothing,” by Gilles Peress, consists of three books, … Continue reading More Big Boxes
