Luckily, there are a great number of videos available on how to repair books, so let's work our way through book repair!
First, let's take a quick review of some of the main parts of a book with:
Video #1
Video #2 - The first thing to do is to prepare your book repair toolkit. Here's a neat idea from one librarian:
Video #3 - This librarian lays out some of her favorite book repair tools, so you can see exactly what she thinks is important to have on hand when you begin book repair.
Video #4 - Learning how to create your own booklet is a good place to start book repair, as it gives you the basics of binding. This demonstrator gives you all the vocabulary, so you'll get a review of book repair terms and learn how to use a few of the book repair tools.
Video #5 - Here's the part 2 continuation. Enjoy!
Video #6 - Do you work with hardcover books or textbooks? Let's start our basic book repair by learning how to re-attach a loose book cover.
Video #7 - Maybe that book cover is loose and even with repairs still doesn't look like it's doing a lot of good. Here's a quick video on how to tighten a shaken book binding.
Video #8 - How's that book cover look? Pretty grimy? Here's a video that gives us a variety of ways to clean a book cover.
Video #9 - This video shows us how to use Scotch Book repair tape and dispenser in book spine repair.
Video #10 - Next, let's repair a torn paperback cover. Check out this video:
Video #11 - Our next move is to look at the bookplate. Damaged? Full of graffiti? Let's remove it.
Video #12 - What about those book pages? Let's check out this video on how to tip in a loose page.
Video #13 - Maybe your book repair is simpler — just torn pages. This video will give you some tips:
Video #14 - Sometimes you'll find books with pages missing, rather than torn. However, if you can get photocopies of the pages from another library, you can still repair the book and return it to circulation. This video shows you how.
Video #15 - Does your book have a dust jacket? Here's a quick video on how to add a protective cover to it.
Video #16 - Do you have pop up books in your collection? This 12 minute video helps you learn how to repair them.
Would you like some written instructions on book repair? There are some excellent online resources available.
- http://www.dartmouth.edu/~preserve/repair/repairindex.htm — This Book Repair Manual was created by members of Preservation Services, Dartmouth College Library, so covers book repairs for archival items as well as general library book repair. A drop-down menu allows you to jump quickly to specific repairs or to review set-up requirements, glossary, parts of a book, and more.
- http://www.brodart.ca/site_pages/h2guides/default.htm — Brodart provides a series of free how-to guides to use their products. Their Guide to Book Care & Repair is in PDF format, so requires Acrobat reader.
What if you decide the book is beyond repair? You may want to have the book re-bound by a bindery.
- Find out more about book binding at: http://www.aboutbookbinding.com/
- http://www.universalbindery.com/ — Universal Bindery is situated in Manitoba, Canada, and serves the prairie provinces.
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