End of Week One

While looking at the 1000plus books that we had gone through--cleaning, putting on protectant, repairing, organizing, reshelving--Camille asked Tattiana (ESEPA librarian), "¿y ahora que?" ("And now what?"). Tattiana, admiring all the books in order, replied simply, "Contemplar."


This past week we have sorted through an estimated 3500 (maybe more...), pulling out those that need to be put into special collections (unique copies or those printed before 1935), those that have been processed but just never put back on shelves correctly, and those that have never been processed at all or just don't belong in the collection at all.
Of those, around 1004 have been cleaned, repaired, protected, reorganized and reshelved into "La Urna" --the special collection of antique and unique books.

Some pictures here below... and I could have taken so many more photos, but I did have to get work done, too. :)