To help call attention to ALA's Preservation Week (April 28-May 4), American Libraries Call Number podcast recently covered an interesting project between a museum and university library around toxic bookbinding materials from the 1800s. Check out the Poison Book Project from the University of Delaware and the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. I don't know if you have any books in your collection that might fall into this category, but it's an interesting read regardless.
"The Poison Book Project is an interdisciplinary research initiative at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and the University of Delaware. This ongoing investigation explores the materiality of Victorian-era publishers’ bindings. Research focuses on identifying potentially toxic pigments used in bookbinding components and how to handle and store potentially toxic collections more safely. For the most current information about the project, please monitor this website, which is updated regularly. Project developments are also shared on Instagram and LinkedIn with the hashtags #poisonbookproject and #bibliotoxicology."
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