So I work in Weimar at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library. It's apparently one of the most prestigious libraries in Germany so I'm kinda proud of myself. Ha! The city is tiny and old with lots of history. I mean Goethe and Schiller are enough, but you also got some Liszt and Bach and everyone else who visited this cultural hub. However, because it's small, that means there's not so much to do, not that I do stuff, so it's fine.
Anyway! Here's my pretty building!
In 2004, there was a really huge fire that destroyed the top floors of the library. So they have/had lots of books that were burned and/or damaged from the water used to put out the blaze. Like this fire-damaged music score.
In November, I'll be working at paper restoration. I was there today and it's AMAZING. They have machines that make pages that were burned able to work again. They created and use the thinnest Japanese paper in the world! I got to take home a piece. It's so amazing.
Fun Fact: Way back when, people used to stick together random pieces of paper to makes book covers. So, sometimes, you can take apart the covers of old books and find really cool stuff like letters and receipts and notes. Of course, since conservation is now, preserve as much as you can, people don't rip off covers just of the cool stuck together stuff anymore. But it's still cool right?
Cool Bnz:
During the first, the leather on this book shrunk. The gold crown on the leather, used to be where the indentation of the crown is in the board. It used to be that big too.
Krass oder?
