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Show 2E The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, July 19, 190 Library of Congress Will Spend S85,000 to Discover How to Preserve Brittle Books By Don Irun serious matter to lose a book that can't be duplicated elsewhere, however obscure it rnay be The Library already spends $300,000 a year to protect, restore and replace its perishab'e newspapers and disintegrating books, and Poole would like to spend more against the time when better methods are devised. To adv ance that day, the Library has started work on a unique research laboratory to explore new methods of preserving library materials. Its equipment will be financed with an $$5,000 grant from the Council on Library Resources, but the staff will be provided by the Los Angeies Times Writer R, EAD ANT GOOD old books recently? Did the paper crack or crumble in your hand? Did a page fall out? You are the owner of a brittle book." and its days as a useful volume are numbered. A you inspect grandfather's collection of Victorian novels, consider the plight of the Library of Congress. It classes as "brittle" some 2.5 million items on its 414 miles of shele and has located 40,000 books which are so far gone they are totally unreadable. Explore tute a blend Pr("-rratio- t.-pling r products. Poole accepts microfilming as an inescapable procedure as long as newspapers are printed on cheap pulp paper, but deplores its use in recording the contents of books. "How, he asks, "do you curl up in bed with a projector? Disintegration of paper can be arrested directly if the condition is not too far advanced. inThe process, known as volves immersion of paper, sheet by sheet, in two baths. The first is a calcium hydroxide solution to neutralize built-iacids. The second uses calcium carbonate to forestall future absorption of atmospheric acids. The pages are then laminated between thin sheets of cellulose ct a g d paper-maker- pulp-pape- n d Most modem books are guaranteed to because of Victorian-erchanges in that helped make printed matter shorter-liveeven as it becam cheaper and more available. s In the 1850s, began to substi paper-makin- of the long-live- Began in 1850 trons. Some libraries just junk their "brittle books" and fill the yarant spaces or. their shelves with newer works. But in an institution that considers itself the National Library of Record, it is a d The change in sizing coincided with a shift to the use of wood pulp to replace the costlier rags that had been ued for TOO years by European papermakers. Chemical treatment can produce pulp paper, but most paper used in trade books for the past century is rosin-sizeand relatively perishable Newsprint-grad- e paper is especially short-liveThe Librarys salvage operations are not keeping up with erosion. Poole is working to double the staff of the Library's repair shop as technicians with the required specialized skills are recruited and trained. At present, there are two basic ways to make sure that a publication or document that is becoming brittle" is not lost. It can be microfilmed, a relatively simply process used last year to record 3.2 million The villain of the piece is modem paper. While books dating back to the Ifith Century remain sound, most matter printed in the past certu-- y is destined to fall apart within a few decades unless salvage effons are improved and widely used. Fiazer G Toole, the Lihrarv's Assistant Director in Charge ot is especially rntireinrij by the results of a reent spot which indicated that about 25 penent of the "brittle books" are unavailable eNeuhie Many are obscure works in specialized fields of value primarily to the scholars and students who are the great Library's most consistent pa- alum-gelati- Inescapable Procedure Library New Methods pages at a cost of $100,000. Most were from newspapers and periodicals, the shortest-live- n of alum and rosui for the compound previously used as sizing to give paper a surface that would accept ink without blotting. The rosin size was easy to apply and speeded production, but as it oxidized, it generated sulphuric acid, which can take the life out of a page in 30 years. The effect is heightened by air polluted v ,th automobile exhaust, by hot weather and excessively low humidity. acetate. Has Ita Drawback! works, but it has its drawinks run when wet, which backs. Water-base- d blocks its use for much art work and some documents. Lamination changes texture and color, which makes it undesirable if these qualities are important.. And it is a tedious, costly process which Poole estimates would cost a prohibitive $50 per volume if it were used to treat books. Poole expects the new laboratory to give high priority to development of a practical, inexpensive technique for mass tion of books. There have been experiments with several processes, but none has thus far been adapted to the huge Librarys gargantuan needs. Already in Use Poole believes the preservation program faces an uphill fight for years as more and books become less and less usamore ble. But he sees hope in the development of new acid free papers made of chemi- cally treated pulp and finished without rosin-alusize. Heat tests indicate that some of these papers wffl last 300 years and more. post-185- long-rang- e -- T n . These papers are already in use by some university presses and for production of some-highly prized scientific journals. At least two commercial publishers are starting to use for scientific and technical works. - -- .t themd- The new paper is a little dingier, a little weaker and a little costlier than the best printing-grade papers now in use. But even if it is not further improved, it still offers concrete hope that books of the 1970s will not inherit the fatal flaw of their predecessors from the past century. , Jacqueline Susann Is Everywhere paperback. On the east coast, Love Maairplanes flying chine banners have buzzed sunbathers on beaches. Miss Susann herself is crossing the country in a private jet, not so surprisingly named Love By Peggy Constantine Writer Chicago Sun-Tim- ! cult of fatigue has grown up around Jacqueline Susann. She seems to be everywhere t all the timei Now she is off again on a concentrated 'effort to sell a book. Bantam has just pubA Machine and you Can expect to see and hear her on television and radio just as frequently as you did in May, 1969, when the book came out in hardcover. The Love Machine" In paperback. Some 3.7 million copies are scattered through ,the United Stales. To sell the biggest first printing in its history, Bantam has launched the. biggest publicity campaign in its history. lished In the midst of this beach balls and scorching red bumper stickers tell us the book is in f e, campaign, Miss Susann made a stop last week that might not seem to match her usual style. With her husband, Irving Mansfeld, and a Bantam representative, high-co- st ; Unsentimental Look at Gerftnimo . she drove over to a Charles Co. ware- Distributing house in Chicago to talk to Levy nine men. New York Time Apaches Just as They Really Were Geronimo. His Own Story," edited by S. M. Barrett. Newly edited with an introduction and notes by Fredrick W. Turner III; Dutton. 191 pp. $6.95. the beginning, writes Fredrick W. Turner III in his superb introduction to Geronimo's autobi o g r a p h y, The Chiricahua raised their males to be strong, swift, deepchested runners, rustlers of stock and raiders of pack From trains, good hiders and dodgem, and implacable haters bt nontribal. neighbors. J.ook through any collection of photographs of the Apache hnd you will see looking out at you faces that neither give nor ask quarter, faces broad and unsmiling (what indeed Was there to smile at), set "with eyes so deep and hot that they appear almost glazed and strangely milky, and still all these years later seem to j , scorch the very pages they printed on." . are No Cultural FloweJ Thus Turner, college professor, folklorist, critic .of literature and jazz, refuses to sentimentalise the past. .Geroni-m- o wa not the flowqr of a high Arizonian cultute destroyed by the' westering white man; or had Apaches ever been a peaceful people. They lived by stealing from others, and when others .retaliated, Apaches killed them. (The same, of course, could be said of the westqring v hite man.) A bandit culture, then, for which , war was an aspect of Chiricahua cosmolreligion ogy included a miller of enemies" and of which Mexicans were the victims before white Americans. No wonder they resisted dispossession, and the fate of the celluloid heavy, until the late date of ANNUAL JULY MQP, jLa cities. This Week She knew, of course what W ield 1886. lYar Shaman was a war shaman," not a hereditary chief. His leadership was Geronimo .based An 1 Influence The nine men are the drivwho deliver paperbacks to 1,000 Chicago book and newsstand dealers for the Levy Co. They are men who wield influence on what books and how many copies bookstores have in stock. ers The men know a lot about paperbacks. They carry 200 about 6,000 books altitles on their trucks. together They visit eight or nine dealers a day. They know from the look of book (it has to g cover for have a a buyer even to pick It up) as well as from the author and subject, if it will sell or not. When they think they have a sizzling seller, they tell the dealers to stock up. D .Gel-le- r, Antonio, Margaret Jerrold, Sey- mour, Affinity, Amalfi, etc Formerly to 38.00 What's the Angle? So accustomed are we these days to historical ret. unrtruc-tion- s in the service of a Christian or a Marxist or a psychoanalytic line that the reader types in the collection. Come early for the best selection . . . These All . wont last long!! All Sales Final , almost automatically wonders; what's the angle of Geronimo? There is one, as Turner readily admits, and it is If we can look back even on this bandit culture and see something thought-provokin- tTici t we did wrong while we were manifesting our destiny, then a moral issue is joined that transcends the Noble Savage versus me Greedy Euscenario. That the ropean South Temple at 2nd East and Cottonwood Mall Book Everybody profits. dealers sell more books. Drivers receive commissions at years end from individual publishers for selling specified But authors, of quotas. course, are the major winners if drivers give them a boost. Au Hour Late Miss Susann showed up at the warehouse an hour late. The drivers didnt care. They were being paid overtime. The expectation was that Miss Susann would, more than she does on ne work televt sion, sing out in peppery She didn't. She apologized for being late. She wore self-prais- e. a white pantsuit and a bandana around her hair and acknowledged that she was tired. She spoke in a voice so low that the blue-and-r- ed frequently- - drowned were doomed Apaches is made dear by Turner John Leonard, New York Times. (Copyright) i 21 2 )2 2 34 4 IS 3 I 2 s 1 10 2S 7 j 1 fverythln You Always Wsntel to Know About Sex. Reuben 2 The Sensuous Women. "J" j I, . , 2 Up the Organisation. Townsend f 4 Zelda. Milford I 4 5 Human Sexual Inadequacy. Masters a John- n , 4 Hard Tlmtt. Ttrkel 4 7 Ball Four. Btuton a - jg 4 SI Shtcttr I g Mary Queen at Scott. Fmtr f The ' 10 , , ' New English Bible. 7 The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 10 (Copyright) 11 j M 'l44 3 i rTake Sesame Kit Along For Learning Early Writing ol Walter Lippmann, with introduction and annotations by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; IJveright; 356 pp.; $7.50. Walter Lippmann is unique among columnists. Unlike so many of that tribe, he has never bothered with telling the inside story, forecasting the future, exposing the shenanigans of politicians or promoting the programs of presidents and other public figures. Instead, he has looked at the world about him, pondered its problems and their meaning, and set down his thoughts in prose remarkable for both clarity and content. The articles included in this book were written for the New Republic, a 'weekly of ideas which he helped found in 1913 just three years after he graduated from Harvard. His style had already been formed. .Indeed, Lippmann in his 20g wrote . just as well as. .the Lippmann , who has now retired after nearly 60 years in journalism. The pieces here collected are as fresh as when they first appeared. During Lippmanns lifetime, the world has undergone so Fpr the next best thing to taking a vacation on Sesame Street is to carry The Sesame Street Learning Kit (Time Inc.) and Childrens Television Workshop, $19.9$ to the family cottage. Even with nq TV, the Sesame fan can conftoue to learn with the help of mother, five books, a long-plarecord and six colV orful posters. give to your wives and girl friends. In the midst of the noise from imminent a driver asked the simplest question of all. leave-takin- g, Royalties Help Are you writing another book?" Yes. I've finished the first draft. Itll take another year to finish. It should be out in hardcover in February, 1972. I shM! return, a little more tired, to see you in the spring of '73." said the "That's good, driver. And then in what must have been the nicest compliaument this thor ever ha.J, he said: In case of a depression, I want to be able to depend on someone. hard-workin- g many charges that all seems confusion. Yet is possible that the more things change, the more they remain the same. In 1919, he said, It is pointed out that labors productivity is low. It remains to be pointed out that the productivity of the government in respect to leadership is lower still. He Balter Lippman Clarity 9118 Content also commented on the current fashion of treating almost every economic or political incident as' a phase of an imaginary revolution. - How frequently in recent rtonths has the nation been warned that a revolution was at hand? But Lippmann did nat have the gift of second sigm. He was an observer who tyrned over a problem in' Jiis mind, .then expressed his opinion! in language that' fcould not- - be misunderstood. As an explainan expository writer er he had no equals. This collection is an wonderful introduction to the later Lippmann whose newspaper column was for many years the most influential in the Unitpd States. Not that everyone invariably agreed with him, or even heeded him. But every holder of h'gh public office simply had to know what Lippmann was saying. The book has' two flaws, however, for which the publisher can be blamed. Arthur S c b 1 esingers , introduction doesnt amount to: much and w"i his annotations are too sketchy to be of any use. heodore Long. . JULY CLEARANCE ; y lx7,x Brighton Walls I can write a book, she began. You're the guys who can Sell it for me, who get a place 09 the racks for me. Since I was last here three years ago, what's happened? My dog Josephine died last January. The book came out. I am a lady taking potshots now. I guess you expect .hat when you have two hits in a book to 1 CINCRAL t tle, and his temperament seems to have been typical of the aggressive Chiricahuas, more personally conditioned perhaps by the murder of his . family by the Mexicans. His row. autobiography, dictated to an Really Rambling Oakland schoolteacher in 1905 She on then, rambling went after almost 20 years as a of really, perhaps hoping for a no war, contains prisoner lofty insights, no pious attitu-- ! driver to ask a question. She dinizing about the nature of told her mother's reaction to Truman Capotes calling her man. a transvestite on network TV. It is dignified (a realist, he My mother said. Jackie, always surrendered when he you use so many words I was outnumbered) and it is don't know and I can never guileful (dedicated to Presifind them in a dictionary. She dent Theodore Roosevelt, in didn't know what he meant." of on his hopes being resettled Drivers began to rise. Jackancestral lands), but it is not ie invited them to come to her a literary .'ocument. for autographed copies of the. addition of a special group of our finest makes for this Event. . on his prowess in bat- Last Weeks Week en List FICTION Love Story. Sepal 2 Greet Lion of God. Ccldwell I The French Lieutenant's Women. Fowles 4 Deliverance. Dickey 5 Calico Palece. Bristow The Crystal Cave. Stewart 7 The Lerd Won't Mind. Merrick ( Losing Battles. Welty The Gene That Couldn't Shoot S'ralpht. Bseslm 10 Such Good Friends. Gould she was doing. her out. Service An anelytii based on reports from more then 12S Bookstores In 4 U.S. nice-lookin- 3. SJLs Lippmami Unique Among Writers Eed The posters Would brighten the most - dismal of cabin walls with their humorous approach to the alphabet, numbers, dictionary and parts of the body. , -- ' . 1 Two others caricature Sesame Street's, inhabitants and picture sequences from ..film strips. On the- backs of four are guides for parents relating the material to numbered television programs,, indicating ways to help a child remember what . has been learned and suggesting, related books. 0 0 Separate Booklet . aid for .parents is a separate booklet outlining the purpose of the TV series and suggesting activities to be used in connection with each of the kits books letters, numbers, shapes, people and things and A 0 An additional 0 0 .0 puzzlers. 1 B - The book with all the question marks on the cover will help parents test a child's creativity in the number of solutions he suggests for given WITH FURTHER 6 problems. reductions The book also cleverly probes those difficult words under, over, beside and in. Popular Songs The record includes some of the most popular show's songs, entertaining and-o- r educational. Our favoriie is I Love Trash. In fact, the whole thing adds up to so much fun that if you dont have a around the house, you might want to borrow one .0 that you can play, too. Shirley Lowry, Chicago Uy Newt,. South Tempi at 2nJ list Cottonwood Mail i 32$ till 272S5I |