{"id":1020,"date":"2015-06-11T21:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T21:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2015-06-11T21:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T21:10:27","slug":"shrink-wrap-a-tool-in-the-toolbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/2015\/06\/shrink-wrap-a-tool-in-the-toolbox","title":{"rendered":"Shrink-wrap, a tool in the toolbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Preservation Lab is lucky to have a lot of equipment.\u00a0 One of our more interesting pieces is a shrink-wrap machine.\u00a0 We bring the machine out about once a year when we have a fair amount of bound materials that meet the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>part of the general circulating collection;<\/li>\n<li>an item with a history of little or low use;<\/li>\n<li>brittle paper, making rebinding or repair impossible or too time consuming;<\/li>\n<li>replacements are not available or prohibitively expensive considering use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before the retirement of Pat Schmude, a UCL conservation technician in the lab for 28 years, we brought the machine up so that he could remind us of all the special things we need to do to make it work optimally &#8212; all the things you just don&#8217;t find in a manual but you know from 20+ years experience.<br \/>\nAnd of course we did have a little fun&#8230;here is my coffee mug shrink-wrapped.\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying to give it up&#8230;so far I haven&#8217;t broken the seal!<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1022\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Shrink-collage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"wp-image-1022 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Shrink-collage-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Shrink collage\" width=\"625\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clockwise &#8211; The finished product; Pat Schmude and Ashleigh Schieszer; Ashleigh, Jessica Ebert, and Pat; the coffee cup in question; Ashleigh and Jessica; and Chris Voynovich.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>Holly Prochaska (UCL) &#8212; Preservation Librarian<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Preservation Lab is lucky to have a lot of equipment.\u00a0 One of our more interesting pieces is a shrink-wrap machine.\u00a0 We bring the machine out about once a year when we have a fair amount of bound materials that meet the following criteria: part of the general circulating collection; an item with a history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[113,117,136,151,228,278],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection_care","category-enclosures","tag-enclosures","tag-equipment","tag-general-collection","tag-holly-prochaska","tag-patrick-schmude","tag-shrink-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}