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Technical Services Guide for Staff: Identifying Damage

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  • Checking For Damage
  • Parts of a Book
  • Brittle
  • Corner & Edges
  • Covers
  • Foxing
  • Headcaps
  • Hinges
  • Labels
  • Mold
  • Paperbacks
  • Pests
  • Pets
  • Red Rot
  • Spines
  • Stiffened
  • Tape
  • Textblocks
  • Pages
  • Uncut pages
  • Water Damage 

Credit

This guide was copied and modified, with permission, from Washington University Libraries' "Identifying Damaged Materials to Send to Preservation" LibGuide.

Checking for Damage

Parts of a Book

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