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Month: August 2018

The Comfort of Old Books

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Freddy Claudio

I work in the Binding & Shelf Preparation Department (part of PDCD) in the Columbia University Libraries system. The great thing about working in this department is seeing books come in for the very first time as well as some of the oldest books that continue to circulate regularly in our collection. I learned to […]

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