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| • The E. Lingle Craig Preservation Laboratory will include equipment never before available to book preservationists on the Bloomington campus, including a “leaf caster,” used to infill holes and replace missing edges
of fragmented pages by suctioning wood pulp into the open spaces, and a deacidification spray system, used to neutralize the harmful chemicals used in wood-based paper that can cause pages to become brittle. The IUB Libraries’ automatic box-making machine
, the first of its kind in use by an academic research library, will also find a new home in the laboratory.
• IU has one of the country’s most heavily used collections of books, which circulate at a higher rate than those of any of the top 20 academic research libraries in the country. The combination of size, high value and intensive use of this collection cr eates an enormous preservation burden on the IU Libraries to maintain its collections for future use. • With more than six million bound volumes, the IU Libraries’ collection ranks 13th in size among North American academic research libraries. In addition to books, the Ruth Library Auxiliary Library Facility will provide ideal conditions in which to house manuscripts, films, maps and materials in many formats. • Ruth Lilly is the daughter of Joshiah K. Lilly, whose collection of rare books and manuscripts helped to form the Lilly Library, named in his honor. In 1997, Ruth Lilly endowed the IUB Libraries’ dean’s position with a $2-million gift, creating the firs t endowed deanship on the Bloomington campus. • The Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility and the E. Lingle Craig Preservation Laboratory are located on Range Road, at the edge of the Bloomington campus.
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