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Lingle Craig Preservation Lab Blog. October 20th, 2017. I have recently discovered a Libraries. Search articles, databases, books, library services, & more. All the Naked Ladies. Source: E. Lingle Craig Preservation Lab Blog. October 20th, 2017. I have recently discovered a sure-fire way to keep things interesting in my job: endeavor to repair books about photography. As a result of the recent closure of the Fine Arts Library, we have seen a high volume of materials from that collection. We wanted to see these things. The move of the collection presents an opportunity for us to sweep in and gather up materials that need attention. Add to that the fact that we spent a good deal of the summer working on a project to give some love to the Science collections. Where do Science and Art collide? Well, a heck of a lot of places, actually. For example: Another way in which Art and Science come together is in books about photography. And what does any self-respecting photography book include? Pictures of naked ladies. Actually, it often doesn’t include pictures of naked ladies any longer, because they have all been stolen. It’s like an epidemic. Except that the illness occurred decades ago and we are only now discovering the casualties. It’s almost exclusively naked ladies. Either people don’t want to steal photos of naked men, or the photos of naked men weren’t there in the first place, or the books with photos of naked men have been more closely guarded over the decades. There is probably a whole course in gender studies waiting to be taught on just this topic. (Photos of Michelangelo’s David don’t count. And they don’t go missing.) Also, I’m not going to be including pictures of any naked humans in this blogpost, so don’t get all excited. I recently took over the lab task of tracking down missing pages. Pages go missing from books for a whole host of reasons. Here are just a few, off the top of my head: Someone really needed that article for their research paper and the book could not be checked out. Someone really disagreed with that article and didn’t want anyone else in the world to read it. The book is old. The adhesive on the spine dried up. Some pages just fell out. Pet chinchilla ate the pages. Someone forgot to bring money for the photocopier. Photocopiers hadn’t been invented yet. Someone had a really bad cold and forgot their pocket handkerchief. That chart/map/table is just very useful to have on hand. That picture is really pretty and someone wanted to put it on the wall in their dorm room. That picture is of a naked lady . Ok – let’s be clear here. Some of these things still happen, but many of these problems occurred in the past and are just coming to light now. When you have the font of all human knowledge AND a camera on the device in your pocket, you don’t really need to steal knowledge or images from the library any more. But sometimes pets do get out of hand. Books are continuing to age. Pages still legitimately fall out and get lost. Sometimes. But thefts perpetrated in decades past seem to be the most common reason for missing pages. Tracking down missing pages is a bit like traveling into the past. You start to question the motivations of the person who took the pages. In most cases, you feel that someone just thought a picture was so lovely that they wanted to frame it and hang it on a wall. So they got a pair of scissors and hacked that sucker right out of the book and went on their merry way. I expect this does still happen occasionally. But it is now more likely that you would just Google image search that thing and then print your own copy. Or make it the wallpaper on your phone. We won’t even go into how weird if feels for me to talk about phones having wallpaper. Illustration by Hannah Helton. Let us take just a moment to think of the images that are on the other side of the picture of the naked lady.
All the ladies in the world
Search articles, databases, books, library services, & more. All the Naked Ladies. Source: E.
ENTER TO THE SITE
Lingle Craig Preservation Lab Blog. October 20th, 2017. I have recently discovered a Libraries. Search articles, databases, books, library services, & more. All the Naked Ladies. Source: E. Lingle Craig Preservation Lab Blog. October 20th, 2017. I have recently discovered a sure-fire way to keep things interesting in my job: endeavor to repair books about photography. As a result of the recent closure of the Fine Arts Library, we have seen a high volume of materials from that collection. We wanted to see these things. The move of the collection presents an opportunity for us to sweep in and gather up materials that need attention. Add to that the fact that we spent a good deal of the summer working on a project to give some love to the Science collections. Where do Science and Art collide? Well, a heck of a lot of places, actually. For example: Another way in which Art and Science come together is in books about photography. And what does any self-respecting photography book include? Pictures of naked ladies. Actually, it often doesn’t include pictures of naked ladies any longer, because they have all been stolen. It’s like an epidemic. Except that the illness occurred decades ago and we are only now discovering the casualties. It’s almost exclusively naked ladies. Either people don’t want to steal photos of naked men, or the photos of naked men weren’t there in the first place, or the books with photos of naked men have been more closely guarded over the decades. There is probably a whole course in gender studies waiting to be taught on just this topic. (Photos of Michelangelo’s David don’t count. And they don’t go missing.) Also, I’m not going to be including pictures of any naked humans in this blogpost, so don’t get all excited. I recently took over the lab task of tracking down missing pages. Pages go missing from books for a whole host of reasons. Here are just a few, off the top of my head: Someone really needed that article for their research paper and the book could not be checked out. Someone really disagreed with that article and didn’t want anyone else in the world to read it. The book is old. The adhesive on the spine dried up. Some pages just fell out. Pet chinchilla ate the pages. Someone forgot to bring money for the photocopier. Photocopiers hadn’t been invented yet. Someone had a really bad cold and forgot their pocket handkerchief. That chart/map/table is just very useful to have on hand. That picture is really pretty and someone wanted to put it on the wall in their dorm room. That picture is of a naked lady . Ok – let’s be clear here. Some of these things still happen, but many of these problems occurred in the past and are just coming to light now. When you have the font of all human knowledge AND a camera on the device in your pocket, you don’t really need to steal knowledge or images from the library any more. But sometimes pets do get out of hand. Books are continuing to age. Pages still legitimately fall out and get lost. Sometimes. But thefts perpetrated in decades past seem to be the most common reason for missing pages. Tracking down missing pages is a bit like traveling into the past. You start to question the motivations of the person who took the pages. In most cases, you feel that someone just thought a picture was so lovely that they wanted to frame it and hang it on a wall. So they got a pair of scissors and hacked that sucker right out of the book and went on their merry way. I expect this does still happen occasionally. But it is now more likely that you would just Google image search that thing and then print your own copy. Or make it the wallpaper on your phone. We won’t even go into how weird if feels for me to talk about phones having wallpaper. Illustration by Hannah Helton. Let us take just a moment to think of the images that are on the other side of the picture of the naked lady.
All the ladies in the world