 | | Re: Modern Libraries (was Re: Bad news for TRU) —Paul Ferguson
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| | | (...) Register House in 1980-81 and again in 1987-88, trying not to put too much additional wear on documents from this period. Also lots of time nearby at the National Library of Scotland. Of course, troublemakers like me want to ensure that you (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Modern Libraries (was Re: Bad news for TRU) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) The first time I was in the building we work with (the main document repository on the edge of town) we got the grand tour. In the restoration room a guy was restoring the very things you are talking about - the lead on the seals attacks the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Modern Libraries (was Re: Bad news for TRU) —Paul Ferguson
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| | | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes: (snip) (...) This is interesting. I've seen lead seals that were cracked, apparently just by rough handling over the last 700 years, but the only problems I've seen with the cords that attach them to (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Modern Libraries (was Re: Bad news for TRU) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) I think the cords I seen were faded red. Th guy called them "papal bulls"? (...) The building is called Thomas Thomson House. It uses a siphonic roof drainage system{1}. We study these things for various reasons, and the facility manger has (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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