This really means that I have been trained to be a hand-bookbinder in charge of repairing books in the general circulating collection. I have received training since 1984 from professional binders, a professional artist, preservation administrators, archivists. I have attended workshops and other appropiate seminars including the 1994 National Collections Conservation Technician Training Course. I enjoy paper arts, in particular the act of putting color, design, and texture on paper. Paste paper is the art of forming designs in color, sort of like finger painting.
Marbling paper is where one creates a design on a sized medium and captures the color creation.
UTA Library has approximately a million volumes, about mid-sized as far as academic libraries go. The CMPS unit where I work has a basic, though well-appointed conservation workshop. We are well equiped with the necessary supplies and small hand equipment to do highly skilled hand-binding, and other electronic functions.