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The Clothing of Books
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2017-02-09
How do you clothe a book? In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean to her; and how, sometimes, “the covers become a part of me.”
Adventures in Bookbinding
Each project in this book combines bookbinding with a specific craft such as quilting, jewelry making, or polymer clay, and offers levels of expertise: basic, novice, and expert.
Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries
Author: Brian J. Baird
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2018-02-09
Designed as a “how-to” manual, Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries provides librarians with practical information to help them grapple with specific preservation challenges by identifying areas of concern, optimizing the use of resources put towards preservation, and establishing goals for continual improvement over time. Straightforward and pragmatic, it helps a library to reduce immediate and long-term preservation costs, and strengthen a library’s collection development goals. Topics include: Preservation in the digital ageEstablishing long-term preservation goals Environmental conditions Preservation needs of specific collections Understanding use patterns for library materials Identifying potential threats to a collection Recognizing readily available preservation resourcesAlmost 50 photographs, figures, checklists, and other tools make this a practical guide libraries will use on a day-to-day basis.