Flood-Damaged Phonograph Records Sent Home
Friday, December 18, 2009 A much awaited event finally arrived. We returned close to 1,500 sound recordings to David Muhlena, Library Director for the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library...
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Moving On!
Thursday, March 4, 2010 The long awaited day arrived at last. We moved out of our “dirty room” at Oakdale Hall, took down our sign, and turned in our keys! Over 18 months ago in the midst of finding...
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Czech book project
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 One of the projects that we’ve just begun to address has been waiting two years. The Czech Slovak library has roughly 7500 books that were frozen post flood. They estimate that...
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Good-bye Caitlin, Hello Kathleen
New Flood Recovery Conservation Technician Tandy Working Good-bye Caitlin, Hello Kathleen Caitlin Moore, our Flood Recovery Conservation Technician, is moving on to the National Personnel Records...
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Odor Reduction for Books in Storage
The National Czech and Slovak Museum and Libraries have a vast collection of books damaged in the flood. Most of their collection is currently in storage in Cedar Rapids awaiting treatment. We recently...
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Record Return!
Preparing to move all 30 boxes of clean records. We have been working on many projects for various museums that got hit by the flood of 2008. Remember the entry way back on December 18 of 2009? We may...
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Andrea’s Awesome Flood Recovery Video
Thursday, May 3, 2012 A Still from Andrea's Video Recovering from a flood can take years and can be overwhelming if you don’t have help. Luckily the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library and...
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It’s a small world
Friday, May 18, 2012 AAMI Bible with Kolarik Bindery CheckI always love when things come together to remind us how small the world really is. I have been working on a Bible from the African American...
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Piecing together a flood damaged map
Friday, October 19, 2012 We are nearing the end of the flood damaged flatwork for the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library. One of the final pieces was a map that had previously been broken...
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Fixing a detached cover
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library recently acquired this sweet chunky 19th century religious text and brought it into the lab. The binding had broken away...
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