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I just found this and thought that some beginner booksellers or collectors might find this of use. The Alaska State Library published a manual on book repair. It is an e-book and can be downloaded for free from the Alaska State Library site. It also appears that you may print it out for your own use as well as long as you are not selling it.
Hopefully this can be useful to some of our readers.
I was reading though For The Love Of Books (the Blog for Biblio) the other day and they had a great article on cleaning and repairing ex-library books. Which, as they mention, is a great skill to have when you find books that are neat or interesting but don't necessarily have a great monetary value. The day I find an ex-library Hemingway first I’m taking it straight to a specialist but in the mean time I shall pay heed to these valuable tips:
Never forget that the more effective the cleaner, the more abrasive it can be, and the wearier the book, the more it must be spared abrasive cleaning methods. Start with the usual soft cloth, then move on as needed to the Artgum eraser and other famous brand names in the field.
If you're determined to remove a library pocket, you can try such products as un-du Label and Tape Remover, followed by a minute or two of low heat from a hairdryer. The multipurpose Document Cleaning Pad can help in removing residue.
Rehabilitate enough library books, and you'll become intimately acquainted with rubber cement. To cope with its removal, try a long-lasting crepe rubber eraser called Pik-Up, which works on many other adhesives, too.
Then they go on to describe some products and tricks for restoring dust jackets...
If any of our readers have done any book restorations themselves and have before and after photos I would be most interested in seeing what an armature restoration job can accomplish.
Ask any librarian what library task is her least favorite, and you'll likely hear book repair from the majority! Book repair is tedious and time consuming. It also requires a fair amount of skill and training.
Luckily, there are a great number of videos available on how to repair books, so let's work our way through book repair!
The first thing to do is to prepare your book repair toolkit. Here's a neat idea from one librarian:
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.
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.
Here's the part 2 continuation. Enjoy!
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.
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.
How's that book cover look? Pretty grimy? Here's a video that gives us a variety of ways to clean a book cover.
This video shows us how to use Scotch Book repair tape and dispenser in book spine repair.
Next, let's repair a torn paperback cover. Check out this video:
Our next move is to look at the bookplate. Damaged? Full of graffiti? Let's remove it.
What about those book pages? Let's check out this video on how to tip in a loose page.
Maybe your book repair is simpler — just torn pages. This video will give you some tips:
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.
Does your book have a dust jacket? Here's a quick video on how to add a protective cover to it.
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.
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By: Scott Laming,
on 10/22/2009
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By: Linda Aksomitis,
on 1/13/2009
