Book Repair on a Budget: Consolidating a Textblock
Channel: UNCG Special Collections and University Archives
Date: 2018-04-18

Sometimes, publishers' bindings tend to break apart at the spine where the adhesive fails or spine linings age. This is a demonstration of how to repair the textblock (pages of the book) when it has split.

UPDATE: I am so sorry that I left out the name of the glue. It is polyvinyl acetate or PVA. White school glue, such as Elmer's, is PVA. Or, for a more archival version, search for neutral pH PVA. For a list of other book repair resources, see our Preservation Libguide: https://uncg.libguides.com/preservationservices/suppliesandtools