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Book Care Workshop with the Book Doctor, Kimberly Young

Book Repair

2025-05-16 09:00:00 2025-05-16 13:00:00 America/Chicago Book Care Workshop with the Book Doctor, Kimberly Young Book care training with the aim of helping you keep your collection in circulation longer. Includes protection and repair techniques and offers hands-on experience with tried-and-true methods. Deerfield Public Library - Room A/B/C

Friday, May 16
9:00am - 1:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-05-16 09:00:00 2025-05-16 13:00:00 America/Chicago Book Care Workshop with the Book Doctor, Kimberly Young Book care training with the aim of helping you keep your collection in circulation longer. Includes protection and repair techniques and offers hands-on experience with tried-and-true methods. Deerfield Public Library - Room A/B/C

Book care training with the aim of helping you keep your collection in circulation longer. Includes protection and repair techniques and offers hands-on experience with tried-and-true methods.

We’re partnering with Demco to offer a free book care workshop with Kimberly Young, the Book Doctor

Course description

Book Doctor Workshops provide book care training with the aim of helping you keep your collection in circulation longer. Training includes protection and repair techniques and offers:
• A hands-on experience
• Ideas for protecting books ahead of circulation
• Tried-and-true methods for a variety of repairs

Workshops typically cover how to do basic page repairs, tip-ins, hinge and spine repairs, book jacket and laminate applications, and how to reinforce spines.

Course notes with links to other free resources such as how-to videos, product directories,
and a repair guide will be provided.

Course materials 

Hard cover and soft cover books, and small tools will be supplied for you.  

Course instructor 

Your Book Doctor is Kimberly Young. She’s worked in a wide variety of library settings across regionally, socially, and culturally diverse areas of the U.S. Her work focuses on collection development, material processing, and book care. As the Book Doctor, she’s traveled the country helping hundreds of attendees build a range of new skills, a better understanding of processing books, and confidence. Kimberly loves meeting all the new people who are as passionate about book care as she is.  

 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Staff |

Deerfield Public Library

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Phone: 847-945-3311

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Fri, May 09 9:00AM to 6:00PM
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