Please join the Preservation Lab (300 Langsam Library) for our annual open house on May 1st. There will be cookies! And bookmarks! And stickers!

Also, new this year, two learning opportunities in Langsam Library by the circulation desk (see below)!

Open to the public. Parking available for a fee in Woodside Garage.

With so much special collections materials going through the lab, sometimes I forget to appreciate the beauty of general collection items. No such problem with this beauty – a stenciled book cover with splashes of gold.

I love pochoir, screen printing, and risograph (the stencil arts), so was thrilled to see this Greek monograph from 1899. It really reminds one of the intense labor that goes into the production of even one book and the subtle difference apparent in each one.

Holly Prochaska, Head, Preservation Services & Lab at the University of Cincinnati