<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Hi,</div><div>This is a book repair question.</div><div>I have two staff members who are good at repairs, and we are trying to refine our process. We are having more and more trouble with some of our juvenile graphic novel titles coming out of their bindings. Some of these are imprints of Scholastic, but not all of them. One of the more notorious instances was the Lego Brick Greek Myths book. <span style="font-size: 10pt;">These seem to be bound with a hot glue process that cannot stand up to circulation.</span></div><div>We have experimented with cloth tape, book tape, and adhesives with a book press. We are not getting satisfactory results, and I wonder if anyone else has a method for repairing these.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier;" mce_style="font-family: "courier new", courier;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" mce_style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" mce_style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier;" mce_style="font-family: "courier new", courier;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" mce_style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span">Eric Hansen</span><br>Director<br><a title="Vicksburg District Library " href="http://www.vicksburglibrary.org/" mce_href="http://www.vicksburglibrary.org/" target="_blank"><span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span">Vicksburg District Library </span></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier;" mce_style="font-family: "courier new", courier;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" mce_style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" mce_style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier;" mce_style="font-family: "courier new", courier;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" mce_style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:EHansen@VicksburgLibrary.org">EHansen@VicksburgLibrary.org</a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier;" mce_style="font-family: "courier new", courier;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" mce_style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" mce_style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier;" mce_style="font-family: "courier new", courier;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" mce_style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">269-649-1648</span></span></span></span></span></div></span></body></html>