{"id":3335,"date":"2021-04-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:23:25","slug":"playing-favorites-lab-staff-share-their-most-loved-treatments-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/2021\/04\/playing-favorites-lab-staff-share-their-most-loved-treatments-projects","title":{"rendered":"Playing Favorites: Lab Staff Share Their Most-Loved Treatments & Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To celebrate national Preservation Week<\/a><\/strong> (April 25 \u2013 May1, 2021), staff at the Preservation Lab are sharing the following answers to the question below as they reflect upon the wealth of library resources located in the Cincinnati community: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is your favorite treatment or project that you have worked on in the Lab?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Jessica Ebert:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning a new photographic imaging technique, RTI<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In April of 2017 I had the amazing opportunity of attending a 4-day workshop at Yale University to learn Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)<\/a> from the experts at Cultural Heritage Imaging<\/a>.  It was one of the most exciting experiences of my career, and when I came back to the Lab to show the staff what I had learned, Aller Bucher Und Schrifften volume<\/a> from Martin Luther was one of the first items we captured with RTI.  I remember that moment when Catarina and I completed the capture and processed the images – we were just in awe of everything we could see with RTI that we couldn\u2019t under normal illumination.  Since then, we\u2019ve made changes to our equipment and our workflow, so now the results are even better than they were back then…but this will always be my favorite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Catarina Figueirinhas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treatment of <\/strong>Diseases of the Sexual Organs, Male and Female<\/strong><\/a> from the Winkler Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Of all the projects I have worked on at the Preservation Lab, this item is by far one of my ultimate favorite treatments I was able to perform. This book was brought to the Preservation Lab in poor condition. The book had no binding, the text block was split in multiple areas, the sewing was broken, and several pages of the text block where either torn or had extensive loss. In addition, most of the text block showed signs of water damage. Since this book was in such poor condition and the curator of the collection wanted the book to be handled by scholars and the public, it was necessary to do a full conservation treatment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was thrilled when I got assigned to this book treatment. I love to work on any book, but the more complicated or involved treatments the better and this was definitely the case. In this treatment, I was able to repair the text block, reduce some of the tideline staining, fill losses and resew the entire text block, while also creating a new binding (called a split board binding) that is strong and flexible to allow such a heavy book to be read.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n