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Three images side by side, showing close ups of the damage on different pages of the manuscript. The left image shows insect remnants, the middle shows a hair, and the right shows a flower pressed into the page.

Good Wood: Using Beech to Rebind a Medieval Manuscript, Part 3

Posted by: Chloe Genter

A rolling cart with three shelves full of books.

Register Now: Assessing the Physical Condition of the National Collection

Posted by: Bobbi Hinton

Two pages from Arts Companion, showing watercolor washes, test daubs of paint, and handwritten comments by a prior owner on topics from the text and famous artists’ palettes

The Artist as Reader? Looking at Dirty Books

Posted by: Bobbi Hinton

Shelf view in Rare Books collection showing spines of Margaret Armstrong collection.

The Companionable Book Cover Designs of Margaret Armstrong

Posted by: Lily Tyndall

Compilation of four images showing scientists using multispectral imaging, Raman, x-ray fluorescence, and fiber-optic reflectance spectroscopy instruments with four pith paintings.

International Outreach: Examining Pith Paintings from Lima to Canton

Posted by: Bobbi Hinton

manuscript in Arabic language

Finding Arabic Miniatures: a special project during the internship in the Library of Congress

Posted by: Beatriz Haspo

Previously damaged items are bound for long term accessibility and storage

Why We Bind

Posted by: K.F. Shovlin

Two women stand behind a desk, one measuring a book and the other cutting a strip of paper from a page of a book.

Dissecting Books in More Ways than One

Posted by: Bobbi Hinton

A group of students works around a large table featuring various atlases and tools of bookbinding.

Atlas Binding Workshop

Posted by: Lily Tyndall