News From Canada / How To: The Book Arts

Steve Scher
01/04/2006 at 10:00 a.m.

Correspondent Vaughn Palmer discusses the week's news from Canada. Then, our "How To" series continues with an exploration of book arts: book binding and restoration. How do you preserve a crumbling book? Can you reattach a book cover that has come loose? Where do gilded edges come from? How has the job of book preservation changed with the dawn of the computer age? What kind of people study book binding in the 21st century? What classes do they take? What lessons are learned? What does box-making have to do with bookbinding?

Guests:
Vaughn Palmer political correspondent for the Vancouver Sunq
Claudia Cohen hand book binder of limited editions who works out of her own bindery
Kate Leonard conservation supervisor at the UW Suzzallo library
Mark Andersson bookbinding department head at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, the oldest and most prestigious trade school in the country