 Hang on. Excuse me. Hang on. Oh look, I only have a dollar. Sorry That's all I have Wait a minute You want a book guys? On TV? Yeah, I'm one of the book guys. That's right. Wait, wait. It's on me. Oh, I love you. Bless you. That's very kind. Okay. See you. Bye. Marie Kelser at the Reservation Department. Okay. Yeah, come on. She can fix books. It's the further adventures of the Book Boys. Join our book-binding buddies as they pay a visit to the Preservation Department of the San Francisco Public Library. Hi Marie. Oh, it's nice to see you. Nice to see you again. In your new room. Marie. John. Here we are in the repair unit of the Preservation Department with our friend Marie Kelser. Marie is the book repair preservation manager here. We have a slight, you know, these San Francisco cab drivers. We thought he was a friend. So we were turning our library books and something terrible happened and so we were wondering whether you might be able to do something for us. And what would you think? Maybe we could help you. Do our best. Yeah, we'd be happy to help, you know, because we both do a little bit of book-binding in our, you know, private lives. Yeah, you may have seen us do that before. I brought a glue stick and some tape. And I thought I might be able to help out. What do you think? Well, we have a wonderful staff here that can handle all the book repairs. We have a full staff of people here. Oh, okay. So why don't you tell us a little bit about what goes on in your room, the book repair room in the Preservation Department. And maybe we can see some of them at work and give them a hand. Okay. Well, here we are in the book repair lab. Yeah. We have a staff of trained people that are trained in the techniques and the materials to do preservation work. And as you can see, they're all at their benches and Working diligently. Working very hard. Yeah. Oh, there's a woman over there. See who's eating a sandwich. It's not like she's working hard at all. She's not doing a thing. Oh, well, we'll have to get to her later. Yeah. Tell her off. Well, great. Marie, you're going to start, I think, by telling us how the books come in. And you get to look at them first and you decide what's going to happen to them. We see you put our books on this cart here. Oh, yes. Yeah, I'll just slip mine in there, too. Hopefully we can get it worked on later. And why don't you tell us what you do first? Well, when the materials come into the department, we sort them for treatment. And there are a number of categories that we can sort them into. It all depends upon what the nature of the book is, how the book is made, how the cover is, what the paper is like. So some of these books are made a little differently than others. Some of them are made differently. Hard cover, soft covers. Some of them are soft cover books. And there's any number of ways that we use to treat them. And it also depends upon what the purpose of the books are in the collection. If they're meant to stay in the collection for a long-term basis, we will treat them differently than, say, reference materials or items that are not meant to be in the collection for a long period of time. And that all depends upon the librarian or the selector. Okay. Well, I think that's a pretty good description of what you do, what we're going to look at. Let's start. Shall we? Let's see what we do in number one. Great. Hi, Heather. Hi, Marie. Hi, Heather. Oh, hi, Heather. I think we have a book here that needs something done with the hinge here. It's kind of loose when I move it. And in the front, I think it needs a new end sheet. Yeah, it's almost coming off there completely. Okay. Good. Well, our friend Heather Nichols here is going to fix this book and we're going to watch her do it. Hi, Heather. Hi. Heather and I went to the same school. We went to the London College of Printing and, you know, we both learned a lot. She's got a real job. I haven't. He's forgotten everything he knows. I didn't learn much. He was just there for the food. Yeah. I love canteen food. Heather, are you going to show us how to do this book? Yes. Okay. Let's take a look. Let's take a look. Okay. Well, first of all, I'm going to take the cover off this book. Uh-huh. Just cut. Now, oh, careful. That's not the cover you're cutting off there. No, I'm just cutting the tape. Right. Oh, the dust jacket. The dust jacket. Yeah. Oh, right. Because this book has two covers. Yeah. It has a cover and a cover. Yeah. It has a binding and then it has a dust jacket. Right. And then I'm going to take off the old end sheet. Right. Why are you removing that old end sheet, Heather? Because it's broken. Oh, okay. And the edge. Oh. I'm just going to pull it off. Yep. Oh, goodness. Okay. And then it was just sort of tipped on in the first place, wasn't it? That's right. And then I'm going to take off. Oh, I see. Is any of this coming back to you, Dominic? Yeah, vaguely. Yeah. Well, I used to cut out security strips from books all the time. I think that was in a different part of my career. Okay. So, and I'm going to cut this. Oh, that's such a shame. There's a little piece of cheesecloth there, huh? Well, it's not very strong. What is that? Oh. It's called mull or super and it goes on the back of the book. Remember, mull? We've talked about this in our other shows. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. What are you doing? Yeah, there's your, down to your substrate material there. Mm-hmm. Now I'm going to put a new end sheet on here. You run a bit of glue along there. I see. Yeah. And then you put your new thing on. You're really tidy, yet. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you're very messy when you were, I can't use our new one. You've done that neatly. You would have been all over the place. Okay. I'll just put it in my pocket. Oh. And you use your fingers to do that. Yeah, you can use your finger or a bone folder. Huh! Can you show us what a bone folder does? Yep. That's a little dirty bit. Oh. I see. Mm. And now I'm going to put some super on the back. Some new super. Oh, yeah. Great. Yeah, yeah. So I'm going to cut this down to size. Oh. I wish somebody had cut John down to size. Or you're going to use your knife again. Mm-hmm. Careful. Careful. It's sharp. Yeah. Good knife. She's in the hospital. Okay. Oh, it's Ralph Nader. Mm. That's what she's repairing. Ralph Nader. I see. Okay. And then I glue this up. Same glue. You're just going right over the old spine lining. Mm-hmm. Oh, you don't need to take that off then. Well, because I'm only doing half of one, not a whole one. Oh, okay. Otherwise you'd strip the spine. Yeah. Now, this book is in the circulating collection, right? So this is a book that people might take out for the weekend. Mm-hmm. Okay. So you're doing a, you have to do a strong repair, right? To make sure it doesn't break again. Yep. Try to anyway. Yeah. So I'm going to let that dry for five or 10 minutes. Oh. And maybe you guys can come back and I'll show you. Can we come back and visit when you're finished? Yeah. See you later. Yeah. Bye. You know, Heather's at lunch, but maybe we can give her a hand with this book. Yeah, it did look easy, didn't it? Yeah. This book's broken. We've got some lovely red sheep from your bike handlebars. Put a bit on there, John. Yeah, I'm just going to slap it on there so fast. No, no, no. I'm sorry. We don't use that to repair. Oh, Marie, what are you talking about? Come on. You kill joy. It looks good, too. Look. It's much more damaging. You want to take time off from your work. You get into this. It's much quicker. Not in the future. Okay, see you later. Oh, hello, Margaret. Hey, hey, Margaret. What are you messing around with? I've got this one. Let me help you. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. Katie, how are you? It's all t- What? Let's look to see what Margaret is working on now, I think. Oh, okay. I just thought I... This is our friend, Margaret, good galon. Hi, Margaret. Hi, Margaret. This is Dominic. Nice to meet you. Yeah. Very nice. Margaret and I met at Dog Ovidian School. Oh, right, yeah. Will you explain what Margaret is going to do to Margaret? Will you show us, please? Well... I can't use my eye anymore. Margaret is working on paper repair on paper that is torn and needs to be repaired. And I'll let Margaret explain. Does the map you're working on here? Uh-huh. It's from this book. It goes right in here. Oh, yeah. And... It folds out. This is an old book. This is like a hundred and something years old. That's old. Yeah. And it was torn right here. Oh, yeah. So I repaired it along there. And... With Japanese paper. Uh-huh. And paste. Mmm. We pasted. Oh, you're not using a PVA like Heather there. No, because... Oh, you don't use this tape at all. Yeah. No. It was really good tape. This is what happens when you use tape. Oh. I'll show you. It gets old, yellow and brittle. Oh, that's horrible. See? Yeah. Oh, so we shouldn't put Scotch tape on. I told you not to use that tape. I know, but you know, it just seems so easy. Mmm. Okay. And Japanese paper can be seen through. Oh. So you don't cover up the words. Oh. But anyway. I see. This will be folded and put back in the book. That's great. Like that. How do you think? Now, is that the only other kind of paper repair you do? Um, no. There's a small rip in this book. Tear. Yeah. Where is it? Actually, this is a big one. And, um, let me start with this one. Mmm-hmm. This is like an overlapping tear. And it's really easy to fix because... Oh, I see. Yeah. Yeah. You've got an edge there. You can put these pastes. There's a feathered edge that you can... Oh, that's good. So you're not even using a, uh... Japanese paper? A tissue repair. No. You don't need anything. John, you generally don't need it for this kind of work. Oh. Yeah. You generally just need it. Yeah. A little bit of... Oh, no. That's okay. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, look at that. Smended. And what was this? Just, uh... Sometimes they keep it from sticking. Uh-huh. Still look on release paper. And... Um... This is blotter. And this is Remy. Also, non-stick paper. Have you seen it on Star Trek where the cure people just go by going... It's just like that. It's just like that. It's like instant... It's amazing. Yeah. I don't know what you've got against our iron, though. Oh, that's a little too big. Clumsy, don't you think? That's Marie's problem, you see. If you did what we do, you could get out of here in half the time. Uh-huh, exactly. You know, spend more time in the park. Okay. So this also has a torn edge, but it's a lot smaller. Yeah, it's harder to see. Yeah. So just put a little bit of glue there. What's that paste made from? You can see it damp. Uh, it's wheat paste. It's made from... Just like flour? Using the kitchen? Yeah, it's, um... It's more pure than that, I think. You're pure. Yeah, I think they purify it somehow. You're offend. Oh, that's good. Let's see. And you have to make sure you get the words right. Yeah, because otherwise it will turn into a completely different story. Exactly. Yeah. You ever get the pages mixed up? Oh, no, never. Never. You both never... Time to put that side down once, don't you, John? Yeah. Yeah. Customer never noticed. Oh. Yeah. So... They were dyslexic. There you go. Look at that. This one will need Japanese paper, though, because the edge isn't... Oh, okay. Oh, so now you can go over it with, uh... With, like, this... This is the thinnest Japanese paper we have. Wow. Wow. What's this paper called? That's silicone. Silicone release paper. Huh, silicone release paper. Uh-huh. It doesn't stick. Oh, okay. There we go. That's wonderful. That's wonderful. Okay. Hey, I have a little gift for you just before you leave. I thought a flower might be nice to brighten your dull desk. Oh, thanks. Thanks, Margaret. Thanks, Margaret. Let's move on. Oh, and we're back with Heather. Hi. Hi. Hi. We tried to help you while you were gone, but, well, anyway. At what point are you up to on this book now that it's... Has it dried a little bit? Yeah, this is dried, and I'm now going to trim the, um... You have a nice drink? Yeah. Yes. In the bar, in the library bar. Yeah. It's all right. They have an employee lounge now, don't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They won't let you in there. No, no, no. So, now I'm going to trims, and she... Oh, can you turn it around, Heather, so we can see it? Turn the camera? Uh, it's kind of hard to cut that way of it. Oh. Well, can you try it? Try it. How could I do it this way? Yeah, yeah. It's all for the public. Okay. So, you put your ruler or straight edge. We never pretend we're not on TV. Oh, no. Every day is a TV day. And then you're going to cut this off, right? Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, with that scalpel. Oh, watch yourself, Heather, that sharp. Phew. Who's a finger that way? Wonderful. I love it. Now what? I'm going to glue this down. Uh-huh. And close the cover on it. Oh. You know about that? You know about end paper stuff, you know, gluing out the end paper? Yeah, I've heard of that. Heather's taken her time sheet from this week's work and put it into there. She's going to glue all over and throw it away. That's right. Come on then. She hasn't been paid in months. No. Heather, you're on a deadline here, Heather. Yeah. Come on. Did you win all the prizes when you were at London College of Printing, Heather? I did. Did you? A few. You were in first and class, didn't you? They give everybody a prize there, didn't they? Oh, yeah. Nobody goes away empty-handed. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, that's good. Wow. That's the mull that we saw before. Mm-hmm. For the new hinge. This is the edge. I like the way you glue that end paper out. Super. You start in the middle, work out, isn't it? Yeah, that's right. So it doesn't buckle or... Right. Buck up. Nice bit of glue. Same glue. PVA. That's right. What does that stand for? PVA. Polyvinyl acetate. Oh, that sounds tricky. There's your time sheet that goes on the floor. Voila. Voila. Right, and it's done. Mm-hmm. Set in the joint there. Yep. Setting the joint? What does that mean? Yeah. Oh, I see. It sounds like a country-western song. Yeah, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah, it's setting the joint. Yeah. Now, I turn this over. Oh. Now, this one, you're not going to do the same operation. No, this is different. That's just the one that's a little bit loose. Marie showed us that before. Yeah. Oh, you wash that brush in water, right? Okay. That's a lovely little brush there. Fan brush? We thought we knew how to fix this. So first thing I'm going to do this. Oh, that makes sure that your glue goes in a straight line, right? Mm-hmm. So you don't glue the wrong things? You don't get glue where you don't want it to be. You don't get any of your fingers, do you? I'm very impressed by that. I just washed my hands. Oh, did you? I usually get a lot of them. Oh, you sound a little bit English to me. Is that right? Are you a little bit English? I did live there for a while. Oh, yes. You have that interesting way of speaking that the English have. That's written something. Yes, you know. You've heard those English people speaking of you. You have that sort of maybe talking like that. Yes. Heather does that. You're going to do a little knitting while the book dries. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Pearl one. Drop one. Knit one. Pearl two. Right. What is that for, Heather? What are you doing with that knitting needle? Are you doing with that? She's putting glue all over it. Heather? I'm going to put some glue down the joint. You're insane. Oh. I have never seen this done before in a book bindery. This is a first. There's a method to demand this stuff. There is. It's like the greasy pole, isn't it? Yeah. This can get kind of messy. Oh, so you're going to insert that into the, yeah. Well, isn't that marvelous? Look at that. It's coming away. Wow. It's like the man putting the sword through his head, isn't it? Yeah. It's like a sword swallow. It really is. It's a freak show, isn't it? Yeah. Both sides. Golly. Try not to pop through the end paper. Uh-huh. This is a big secret, I think. Now the whole world knows. Yeah. I think they'll be better off for it. Put that in. Put some silicone relief paper. Oh, the silicone valley paper that we saw before. Mm-hmm. That goes in. And then, oh, don't forget to set the joint. Set the joint. Yeah. And then I put it in the press. Oh, look what's happened to this tape. Oh, yeah. Oh, that tape's very bad, Heather, you know. Yeah. That could damage the book. Daman, I come off using a tape on one of your books. Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, look at this beautiful. Oh, it's a lovely book. Oh. What are you doing? Oh, I see. This puts the pressure on it, yeah? Mm-hmm. Now, these boards have these metal edges that bite into the joint. Uh-huh. Oh, what do you know? I know what my eyes see. Oh, okay. Is that it? Yep. Feather. I think it's too bad. Thanks very much. No problem. I'd like to present you, uh, Heather with this feather. Oh, thank you. I hope that together you will be happy. Thank you. What a beautiful feather. It's quite all right. See you next time. Let's give up your sleeve. Uh, well, we have another thing to look at. Okay? Let's move on. Great. Thanks, Heather. Oh, here we are in the encapsulating room. Yeah. Encapsulating. Encapsulating. What is that? Encapsulator encapsulates or encloses documents in between two pieces of plastic like this. Oh, okay. Right. Yeah. And what it does is, in that sense, it protects them from dirt and when items need to be handled. They have to be flat items, right? Yes. Oh, you couldn't put books in there? No. Okay. How about your sandwich? Oh, yeah? You could put your sandwich in there? Yeah, I think so, yeah. You could put maps, pieces of paper that are fragile. If they're in between pieces of plastic, then you can handle them right? You can handle them. Yes. Oh, this is what's that president called? JFK in Berlin. Oh, yeah, JFK. Yeah. See, it's fragile. Right. Ich bin ein Berliner. What's that? I am a pretzel. Oh, pretzel? Are you sure? It's not a pretzel? Hot dog? And it's a fragile, so you're going to put it in. So you're going to show us how that's done, right? Right. Okay, let's go over and meet Claudia. Claudia. Okay, let's go meet Claudia. And here's Claudia. Hi, Claudia. Hi. John, I'm Dominic. Hi. You're going to demonstrate this contraption here, which is called a... An encapsulator. Uh-huh. And I already have the map inside the two pieces of plastic. So I just put this magnet thing down. A magnet. I just hold it in place. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. And then this will come across and make a seam. How does it work? Yeah, how does that work? It's not with heat, is it? Marie? It's used with electricity. Yeah, look at that. Electricity goes into the converter. That's a converter. Yeah. And it's converted to sonics, like ultrasonics. Oh, ultrasonic. The sound waves. Oh, like Concorde? Yes. The aeroplane. Yeah. Supersonic sound. So the ball underneath there goes up and down very, very fast, and that creates the sound waves. Which welds. Wow. So are we going to see it work? You just saw it. You just saw it. That was it? Should I bring it back? Yes. Can we see the weld there? There's the weld. Oh, that's great. Hey, you know, can I just interrupt? You guys are, you know, I'm sure this machine costs a lot of money. If you don't have the money for this kind of contraption. One of the broken boxes we just brought in. We do this all the time. John, we're doing a good little map here, 18th century thing. You are going to encapsulate that. You see two pieces of plastic? You can just smash all the air out of there. You know what I mean? And just seal it up. John, John, John. I don't think that'll work. You don't think that's good? No, no. It's not going to preserve it so somebody can use it. Look, it's all crumpled up in there. It's already broken. You ruined it. Why did you tell me to do that? Well, I just thought we'd save money. Look, I mean, you know, and you can, it's a zip lock. You can open it and, oh, you're right, Marie. It says on TV they work. You know, what we've learned is you should really listen to professionals. Yeah. And don't listen to anything you hear on TV. Right. Okay. Well, can we, can we still stay around and watch some more stuff? Sure. Okay. Let's move on then. Thanks. Well, we're back. I'm encapsulating. And Marie, what's next? Well, here we have Dan. And he's going to show us. It's our friend Dan. Plan again. Hi, boys. How are you doing? Pretty good. Nice to see you. Yeah. And he's going to show us how to read back. Read back. Thanks, Marie. Oh, I need some work on my back. Read back. That's not like one of those training shoes. Is it, no? No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to put new cloth on the deteriorated spine of a 19th century decorated cloth case. That's what I'm going to do. Now, you've, you've taken the boards off this book. Yeah. This is already just for the final stages. Yeah. I've put new enchees. You've prepped the book already. Clean the spine, put a new liner. We've seen a lot of this work earlier today. We know all about this. So what I'll do right now is I'll glue up the spine, put the spine inlay on, and rebuild the case. Okay. And put it on the book. That piece of white is going to be a stiffener for the spine. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes called an inlay. Inlay. Oh, that's a nice work. Yeah. Okay. So that paper will stop the glue from getting on the table. There you go. You've got a nice little brush. I think that's called PVA down there. That's polyvinyl acetate gel. Yeah, that's right. Emulsion. Emulsion, yeah. You put the glue on, right? Look at the way he puts it. The glue is the same way, doesn't it? Yeah, they've all got this lovely technique, this lovely action. What's the cloth made from? It's starch impregnated buckram. That sounds tricky, doesn't it? Yeah, it's like a canvas. Impregnated. It doesn't say where it should be. Now you're putting the inlay. Yeah, it's just sticking it right down. Right? Yeah. That represents the shape of the spine, right? You measured this inlay against the spine. Yes, I already did that to begin with. Oh, okay. Because all books are different. You know that, don't you, John? Really? Oh, yes. Now you're leaving some space between the inlay. Yeah, I'm giving myself a good joint, which just didn't originally have, and which is why it probably broke. The joint is the distance between the spine and the beginning of the cover, right? That's right. This little area right here. Right. Yeah. It's all like words of medicine. It's the joint, the spine. Yeah. It all comes from the body. Well, you know, this whole return to the body. Oh, it's just so nauseating. I wish people would just get on them. Yeah. And you don't use a bone tool, do you? What is that? That's a piece of wood. This is a real special one a friend of mine made. It's made of lignin vitae. Oh, that means living wood. Living wood. It's very flexible. I can hear it scream when you use it. I see. So you're folding the inlay over a little bit, too. Yeah, just a little turn in there. Oh, okay. Yeah, why do you turn a little bit of that inlay over, too? Well, just to strengthen it some. Give it a little extra. You can also maybe put a little piece of string, but this is a little easier. Oh, for the laser here. That library style binding. Yeah. Okay. That's really just quite a straightforward thing. And you just went right over the cloth. That's it. Oh, so you choose a cloth that's compatible. Yeah, it's close. Close. And now you put the book together. And I bet you're going to press it like Heather did. I bet he's going to press it like that. In one of those book presses. Dominic, I'm going to press it just like Heather did. Great. Wow. Heather got a feather for pressing her book. I wonder if Dale will get one. Okay, let's see. That would be really nice. Well, first I'm going to have to just set the joint. Oh, yeah. Don't forget to set the joint down. We know all about this, Dan. Yeah. Heather set her joint. She stood it on both sides, though. Oh, you're going to do that. We're going to tell you about setting joints. Yeah. Okay, over to the press. Okay. You've got to press just like Heather's. I'm just going to be with you right here. I'm right next to you, Dan. Here's any problems. We're here. We're here. We're here for you. Yeah. Hey, be careful, Dan. Yeah. We'll get that just right there. Yeah, we're all in this together. We're using the same metal rimmed boards. Yeah, Jon's obsessed with those. Mmm. Nice. They're sexy. Yeah. Maybe they've been impregnated or something. Yeah. I'm not going to do it real hard right away. I'm going to check the mixer at stake. Okay. I'm just going to give it a little kiss, huh? Jon, will you stop it? Okay. Put it down, Dan. Put it down, Dan. That's it. That's it. Okay. We've got a little drying time. Just a short time. Okay. We'll come back and have a little bit. We'll attach base with you later. Okay. Thanks, guys. Thanks, guys. Well, leaving Dan to have his well-earned break from the... He's having a cigarette. I think he must be. The work he's doing to have it. Delightful, Siberia. Welcome to Move On. Next station over here we are with Joanna. Hi. Hi, Joanna. Hi, Joanna. Nice to see you. Marie's going to tell us a bit about what Joanna's doing here. What we have here is we have pages that have been photocopied to be tipped into this textbook here. Oh, they were torn out. They were torn out. So you get them from somewhere else that has them photocopied them. Right. Maybe another library. Yeah. Sometimes if we have the book in this library. Yeah, you'll just go photocopy it. Right. And we photocopy it on both sides. Yeah. It's double-sided. Mm-hmm. And then Joanna tips it in. Joanna, why don't you... What do you mean by tipping in? Tipping in. Well, let's... Joanna, why don't you start? Let's take a look. I bet it involves glue. Yeah. Yes. See that old glue bot? Yeah. What she is doing first is she's going to trim the edges so she can make it more the size of the text. Yeah. Oh, yes, I see. Okay. Because the pages that they copy on are 8.5 and 4.7. And sometimes the text pages are a little bit smaller or larger. So she's going to trim around two, three sides. And that bulldog clip keeps the pages in place? Yes. Yeah. Well, she trims it. Oh, then handmade. She's pushing down there. Right. And what's next? She's applying PVA now. Yeah. Now that all the edges are cut. And she's fanning them out just to fan them out? So you get glue on each edge. Right. Because you only need a very small amount of adhesive to hold the pages together. I see. And you don't want it too much adhesive because then they might not open. Right. Exactly. So there's about what, four or five pages there? Yes. And she's going to drop them all in at once. Right. That really saves time. And she's ready if there was pages that were torn out in the gutter. Yes. She's already taken the remaining pages out. Oh, I see. She's cleaned out that area. So there's an area for them to go in. Right. Now, they look like they're overhanging a bit, but presumably they're going to get cut off afterwards. Right. Oh, they're going to get cut off right now, it seems, here in the scissors. Oh, and she's just going to trim the edge. Right. I see. It's a pretty efficient way of trimming with the scissors. Yeah. But it does take a lot of practice. Yes. You don't have to go over using a scalpel and a straight-change because you don't have to set it all up. She seems to be doing it very straight. And when it's all done, you can hardly tell that pages were tipped in if you look on the side. Right, I see. And just a couple more to go, it seems. Yes. And the whole thing's done. It's nice to see it happen so quickly. You realize that this kind of repair can be done very easily. Well, I wouldn't say easily. It takes a little practice. Oh, it takes a lot of... Yeah. You have to be trained to do it, certainly. Sure. But once you've got your skills, you can get through a good amount of work. That's fine. Right. But you wouldn't recommend people trying to do this at home? No. No? No. You need to know what's going on. Yeah. Yes, exactly. Good. Okay. Thanks. That is wonderful. Joanna, before you go, I'd like to present you with this dried artichoke as a token. Thanks. Thanks, Joanna. No. It's back to Dan. Well, we're back at Dan's station here. Dan's desk. And here he comes. Where the magic happens. He's been nipped and touched in the press. Hi, guys. Hi, guys. So what are you going to do now? I'm going to lay the end papers down. Okay. And put the old spine back on the book. Okay. And then put it back in the press. You've got 45 seconds. Go. Go. And he's taking the paper out of the drawer. He's coming around out of the gate. All right. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay, so we've seen a little bit of this before, but it's good to see. Can you see a little bit? Can you see a little bit? He's put that back to support the board. That's right. It's very supportive. This is San Francisco, after all. Yeah. I've got to take this. This is a little longer necessary. Take that barcode on. You don't want that. Stick it on Heather's back. It's a nice little brush you got there. What's he made of? It's bristle. It's a kid's paintbrush. It looks like it costs like $58. Yeah, more like a dollar. That's great. And I like them. So you glue out the end paper, and then you have to glue out that little strip of super, right? Super there. Okay. Just like Heather. Just like Heather did, yeah? A little sloppy. And then... Breaking the land speed record here, Dan. He's very fast, you see. He has to get home, you see? Yeah. I'll give it a little push. Uh-huh. Same on the other side. This is all looking very nice. He is being supportive again. You've got... Yep. You're running out of time, Dan. You've only got 45 seconds left. I can't work under all this pressure, Dominic. Can I hear your train in common? Yeah, yeah, okay. It's coming up. It's coming up. What's that little... Yeah, what's over there? Yeah, get that little thing there. Oh, no one will know. It'll disappear. Okay. You do what Heather did. You put a piece of paper underneath there to protect the rest of the paper. Yeah, just so I don't have to think about that. So you don't have to worry about it. That's a good thing to do. You should do that with your work, John. It'll be messy if you do that. Close the book. Okay, I'm going to put the old spine back on. Oh, the spine has to go back on. We know that. That's going to go in the press. That spine is really the best part of the book, isn't it? Yeah, it says... Look, it says... Tent life... Tent life in Siberia. Tentative life in Siberia. In Siberia, like somebody's falling down a cliff. Okay. Okay. Fuzzies off. Yeah, take off the fuzzies. Yeah. Now, this is just an old, thin... piece of brittle book cloth. Uh-huh. I like the way you glue it in one direction, then you hold it at the top and glue it down. Yeah. So you never shift. So the glue doesn't go anywhere you don't want it to be. That's exactly right. You guys did this before, huh? This is a master at work. And then make sure you get it the right way up, because John tends to put his arm upside down, you know, when he does his re-backing, don't you, John? You always forget. Yeah, upside down and backwards. Yeah. There it is. That's really rather remarkable. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It comes out to be a very nice sympathetic repair. Sympathetic? Yeah. Yeah, right. I strive for sympathy. Sympathetic and supportive. Yeah. What's an empathetic repair? Thanks. Yeah. Dan, it's been... I feel your binding, Dan. Right, yeah, yeah. It's been real. I share your binding. It's been real. And it's going back in the process. Yeah. And then it'll sit and cure for several hours. Mm-hmm. I feel like I've been here before. Yeah. A good night. The garbage can is really important. Oh, you, yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Putting it back on those metal-rimmed boards. Have you ever... This is a beautiful press, by the way. Yeah. Ever trapped your fingers in there, Dan? Nope. Oh, I trapped my fingers in the guillotine once. You know, I tried to undo it with my teeth. And then I realized that my boss is in the room, so I asked him to help me. Come around. Yeah. He laughed at you. He laughed and laughed. Yeah, I laughed at you. And that's it. Now it'll sit under, you know, medium pressure and cure for a while. And that's all done. I'd like you to have this feather. Thank you very much. Be all dominant. And we'll see you in the bar later. Thanks, Dan. Thanks. We'll buy you a drink. Bye. Bye. Here we are with Ruth. Oh, hi, Ruth. Hi, Ruth. Nice to meet you. Glad to meet you, too. Okay. Thank you. And what are you going to show us now? A book that's been repaired. Mm-hmm. And take the dust jacket off and put a new one on. Oh, okay. So the dust jacket has over it a piece of plastic, right? Yeah. Kind of really bad. It's getting feed up a little bit. Yeah, it's already. So you're going to put a new one on? Yeah, a new one. Uh-huh. Oh, so... This one. Yeah. Look how long the dust jacket is when you take it off. Yeah, and the new one is over here. Oh, okay. A much cleaner one, too. Good. Yeah, so... So you're just going to wrap this around? Yeah, well, not wrap it, but put it here and then take a bone. Oh, that's nice. It looks like it's on a tissue background. Yeah, the tissue's on the back, yeah. Thanks to this carrier. Yeah, get your hands off. Oh, sorry. Sorry. No, that's okay. I know I washed them, but, you know... Yeah. You don't know where I've been, do you? You had to fold it up to do it. Okay. I have to use a bone for that. Oh, here's another bone folder. Yeah. It's your favorite. Yeah. And then pull it back. So this is like one of the most basic ways you can do the library. It will take care of its books. So you have to protect the cover, too. Just on the outside, right? Yeah, just to protect the cover. Yeah, so actually the book itself is fine. Then put some tape on it, yeah, and the metal to hold it together. A bit of tape? Yeah. Now, we were using Scotch tape before we were told off. Yeah. I guess it's okay for this kind of thing, huh? You have to hold... Won't hold on. Okay. So it's invisible, too. Oh, that makes all the difference. Yeah, yeah. Invisible tape. Invisible tape. Especially it makes the book look much better. Yeah. Make a note, Dominique. I know. Yeah, it protects the book, and it looks more cleaner, too. Yeah. It does. It's so... It's nice to see you doing it. It looks... You make it look so easy. Well, I think anybody can learn how to... I wouldn't go near a piece of that stuff. To protect their books. Yeah. So the tissues come off. Yeah, and then I take it. Yeah, and then I cut it over here. Oh. Oh, okay. I'll look at the ends first, yeah. What's this contraption here? Yeah, well, I mean, just don't push your fingers in. It's called a cut trimmer, yeah. Oh, a cut trimmer. Yeah, I see. It's kind of redundant, isn't it? Yeah. And see, the book looks much better, the cover. Yeah, it does. Well, it looks better already. Cleaner, yeah. It's the creation of the American Republic. Mm-hmm. That's the name of the book, but it deserves a thank you. Anybody who's interested at home, and, uh, Ruth's almost finished. Yeah. I'll have to hurry you, Ruth. I'm sorry. I know you have. I mean, we've got deadlines here. Oh, I know, sorry. I mean, you see, your lunch break is coming up, and so on. No, I haven't. Oh, you have, okay. Small, um... Right. And there it is. Then you hold... No, you have to tuck it. Oh. And then you take the tape. The tape? And then you put it here. And then you put them onto there. They use more tape than I've ever thought they do. But it's on the outside of the mylar. Oh, it's on the outside of the mylar, so it doesn't matter. I see. I'm not touching any paper. Thank you, Marie, for keeping us up to date with conservation practices. It doesn't interfere with the book. You see, John, it's a mistake I think you made. Why'd you tell me to do that? Well, because, you know... you've done a lot to learn. And we're coming around the clubhouse turn. Oh. You're almost there. It's a lovely dust jacket. If you're ashamed to throw it away with it. I always throw my dust jackets away. I get rid of them immediately. Okay, here you go. Thank you. That's great. Thanks, Ruth. Thanks, Ruth. See you later. Okay. Well, after all that book repair, we're a bit shagged out. We thought we'd take time off and relax in the bindery prep. Spend a bit of time in the room. Marie, would you like to introduce us to Dave and tell us what we're going to look at here? Yes. This is Dave Power, and he is in charge of the entire bindery preparation operation, which means he takes care of preparing materials to be sent to off-site binderies. So some of the work that comes into you actually gets farmed out to other binderies where it's more cost-effective. Yes. So could you tell us about some of the prep that you do on the books that we have here? Sure. This is an example of a book that's damaged. Oh, that one's split in half completely. And you can send that to the bindery. Now, the assessment's made in the... It's not cost-effective for you to do this work. Right. Usually Marie makes the decision. So this looks like something that was made next door, that this amount of preparation was done to this book, right? Right, yeah. I think Dan did this. Yeah? Okay. Endsheets on here. And then at the bindery, they'll just put a cover on it. They'll put a cover on it. Looking like this, right? Right. It has a cloth case. Very strong, durable cover. Yeah. And all the information is printed on the cover. Yeah, we usually include a slip that tells them what information to put. Oh, okay. On the slip. That's all done by a computer, I ask you. Very interesting. Nice cloth, nice strong end paper, and it has a new slip in here, and it has a new barcode. Yeah, once it comes back from the bindery, we do all the processing. Right, you do that here. And then you send it back out in the circulation. Right. So now there's another kind of bindery work that you may send away for. This looks to me like just a regular inexpensive paperback. And this is something that a library bindery might do with that. I'm not sure quite what they've done here. Have they put a hard cover on there? Yeah, they put a hard cover on there, they remove the actual cover of the paperback. Yeah, and it's got a laminated, laminated, it's got this very, very durable cover. So they haven't done anything to change the way this book is sewn or glued here, but they've put this hard cover on. Yeah, they put an end sheet on there and they just cased it in. Good. That's interesting. Now what's this one? This looks intriguing too. You've got two books here. These are magazines that come into the library, either monthly or bimonthly. And once either a year or half a year comes in, then we send them off as a group to get bound into a hard... Dave, do they make you take all the staples out? No, we send them and they remove the staples. They have a machine that removes staples. We have to do them by hand when we work at home. You're very lucky here. When we work at home in our small book binderies, we do them by hand. And we're not insured for that kind of injury. This opens very nicely. I trained my dog to do it. This is really nicely functioning. It throws itself up nicely as you can see there. It's a very tough finding, isn't it? Six months of magazines. Right. This is New York. What's that? A magazine? Yes. Never heard of it. There it is. It's great. Thanks. There's another thing here. Can you explain this to us? Sure. These are either books or pamphlets that are... Oh, I see. Here's a pamphlet. ...usually thinner than, you know, an average book. So they would get what's called a pam bind, which is short for pamphlet bind. And so that gets done at the vineyard also. And that's a piece of stiff board here. Stapled in. Stapled in. It's a plastic here. Stapled through the book, through the pamphlet. And what's the purpose of it? To protect it, to give it some... protect the edge. Yes. Ah, interesting. And it also has a nice clear cover so you can see the... Yes. You can see the cover. What a curious way to read, isn't it? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Actually, you can see in there where the staples go through. Yeah. Wow. So that's cheap and it's cheerful. Right. And it becomes worn and the cover is damaged. It's easy to do it again. Right. Now, this is really nice. This is the last one. Now, this is an old book. That looks like one of our other shows. Yeah. And you don't do anything to this because you don't have either the money or the time or whatever. Right. But what you do is what? Prepare this... Make an archival structure for it. Yes, we provide the measurements to the bindery and then they will make a box for it. Mm-hmm. Because this is really broken, right? Right. And we don't... It's not a priority. Yeah, you can see how big this book is. It's like from our show Big Book Small Books that we did earlier. Yeah. It's really nice. It's a lovely leather... It's a Bible. It's a Bible. Oh, look. Holy Bible. Mm-hmm. And this box is made then at the same place. Yes. At this bindery. Yes. And it has this nice way of... Folded car... Oh, it's not made for that book. It's not... Well, I'm not stupid. This book won't fit in this box. No. What can you learn at the library? And it has these lovely flaps. And I guess this is all done in the sort of nice way, isn't it? They feed the information in. Yeah. It gets cut. And then this string is great. Just winds around there. And that's it. Thanks very much, David. And you're going to show us what happens to the books once they get back here, right? Yeah, sure. They're all behind you. Let's have a look at those. So, show... Tell us what's going on with these. So, these are some of the books that have come back from the library bindery. Yeah, we unpack the boxes and have the books. We do all the processing here. Yeah. So, we add barcode. Yeah. And take your slips and stamp them on the top. Yeah. Oh, you stamp them? You just send them back into circulation. Yeah, they actually get, like, security strips done at the binder. Oh, those are the thin strips of metal that send off the flashing bleepers. We should put those inside our pants. Yeah, I've always wanted to do that, you know, to... No, we just... We attach the reference place to the... Right, to the reference books. Also, I noticed that reference books seem to be done in gold. Uh-huh. And periodicals and so on are done in black. And then these regular library books seem all to be done in white. That's interesting, too, isn't it? Yeah, these are actually... Actually, the magazines are all gold or black. Oh, okay. See, bell decor is in gold. Oh, yeah. And this is my favorite color in the world, this orange. And I can't believe that the library's still using it. It's a crime, really, isn't it? It's wonderful. Dave, thanks very much. See you next time. Well, Dominic, here we are at the end of our soldier to the Preservation Department. Done, we've ironed, we've taped. We've tried to... I think we've learned a lot. We've been prevented from doing anything... We have been as helpful as we'd like to have been, but nevertheless, Marie, it's been delightful being with you and your delicious stuff. You're all highly accomplished and well-managed, thanks to you. And I think it's a token of our appreciation. As a token of our appreciation, we'd like to present with you an apron from the Handbook Minders of California. As President of Handbook Minders, I present this to you. Thank you, Marie. Oh, thank you. And may you... Happy glaring. May you bind for many years to come. Well, thanks for coming by. We really enjoyed it. Thank you. Thank you. Now, before we go, Marie, I... I'm worried about our book... We've learned such a lot today. I can't help feeling that this book... And this one... ...that we had an accident with is perhaps a... And these two perhaps... Maybe you're unfixable and may need to be replaced... You'll find yourself replacement copies. Okay, we'll find something. We'll take care of it. Okay, right. Thanks, Marie. I think we need to find that. Let's go find that cavity. Okay, okay. See you next time.