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Library Preservation

A guide to the care of collections at the William R. and Norma B. Harvey Library

A page of exquisite book learning for the bibliophile buried deep within us all! (Well, you did arrive here so it must be true!)

Presented here will be links to various content found on the 'net that relates to books. Everything from book construction, book history, philosophy of books, or anything else deemed too intriguing to pass up.

Savage Tour of the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco

Adam Savage learns how old books were made at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco.

Fry and Gutenberg

Stephen Fry explores the making of the Gutenberg press.

Great Florence Flood of '66

Some historical films about books

One of the oldest films showing book creation, a 1925 silent film of the Oxford University Press.

Book creation back in 1947.

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