{"id":879,"date":"2014-10-23T19:16:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/?p=879"},"modified":"2014-10-23T19:16:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:16:51","slug":"the-collapsible-book-cradle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/2014\/10\/the-collapsible-book-cradle","title":{"rendered":"The Collapsible Book Cradle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love to design and make things work! Recently I have had the opportunity to kick around a new contraption for displaying or otherwise supporting books, the collapsible book cradle.<br \/>\nThese guys are handy for keeping a book stable for viewing which greatly reduces the wear and tear on the object through excessive handling. The cradle is also useful as a support for a book in delicate condition for the conservator or tech to perform repairs.<br \/>\nThis particular cradle design also has the feature to collapse to a book like shape which can be stored on the book shelf next to the other books when not in use. Thus the name \u201cThe collapsible book cradle\u201d.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/cradle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-880\" alt=\"cradle\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/cradle-1024x780.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSince creating one from a <a href=\"http:\/\/blueroofdesigns.com\/2013\/06\/03\/collapsible-book-cradle\/ \">web blog <\/a>by Elissa Campbell, I have made one for a miniature book (it\u2019s so cute!) and several to distribute to various departments. I\u2019ve just finished one for an oversize book that was just treated in the lab for the UCL&#8217;s Classics Library.<br \/>\nIn about 2 weeks I am going to be holding a workshop to make the cradles here at the lab. I think these are a great versatile tool easy to make and easy to store when not in use.<br \/>\n<strong>Chris Voynovich (PLCH) &#8212; Conservation Technician<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to design and make things work! Recently I have had the opportunity to kick around a new contraption for displaying or otherwise supporting books, the collapsible book cradle. These guys are handy for keeping a book stable for viewing which greatly reduces the wear and tear on the object through excessive handling. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[44,57,104,339],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-collection_care","tag-book-cradles","tag-chris-voynovich","tag-diy","tag-we-made-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}