{"id":41310,"date":"2011-04-26T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T19:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=41310"},"modified":"2011-07-29T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T15:08:14","slug":"library-books-can%e2%80%99t-escape-father-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/04\/library-books-can%e2%80%99t-escape-father-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Books Can\u2019t Escape Father Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibit at the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uchc.edu\/\">Lyman Maynard Stowe Library<\/a> shows the impact the years can have on the condition of books.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Miglus, the librarian at the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uchc.edu\/hms\/\">Hartford Medical Society\u2019s Historical Library<\/a>, created the exhibit to coincide with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/alcts\/confevents\/preswk\/index.cfm\">Preservation Week<\/a>, April 24 to 30 as designated by the American Library Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBooks age, just the way we do, and this was put together to show some of the hazards that can happen to old books,\u201d Miglus says. \u201cSome of the books in our collection are as old as 500 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ALA says the campaign \u201cwas developed to promote the understanding and importance of care for personal and community cultural heritage collections, such as books, documents, photographs, textiles, paintings, sculptures, furniture and decorative arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H7D1WhyZMS8&#8242;]<!-- #EndEditable --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibit at the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library shows the impact the years can have on the condition of books. Jenny Miglus, the librarian at the Hartford Medical Society\u2019s Historical Library, created the exhibit to coincide with Preservation Week, April 24 to 30 as designated by the American Library Association. \u201cBooks age, just the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-41310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 13:29:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42212,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310\/revisions\/42212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41310"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=41310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=41310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}