Join Davenport Public Library in learning how to practically care for and preserve materials at home with tips and tricks from the staff of the Preservation Workshop: Homemade Book Weights Presented by the Davenport Public LibraryRichardson-Sloane Special Collections Center. Each workshop will showcase different techniques and share applicable knowledge on creating tools and demonstrating methods of preservation for photographs, letters, books, and more.

In this month’s Preservation Workshop on Tuesday, April 20th at 2:00 pm, we will demonstrate how to make homemade book weights. Books weights are a perfect tool for gently holding a book open, propping them up, and other needs.

We will share the materials you need and instructions to do this at home!

This program is scheduled to be held virtually. Information about how to join will be posted at http://bit.ly/dpl-preservationworkshop

Keep up with our virtual programming on our Virtual Branch Calendar of Events at https://davenportlibrary.libcal.com/calendar/virtual.

This event is FREE and open to the public. For more information visit www.davenportlibrary.com or call the library at (563) 326-7832.

Preservation Workshop: Homemade Book Weights Presented by the Davenport Public Library
Sean Leary is an author, director, artist, musician, producer and entrepreneur who has been writing professionally since debuting at age 11 in the pages of the Comics Buyers Guide. An honors graduate of the University of Southern California masters program, he has written over 50 books including the best-sellers The Arimathean, Every Number is Lucky to Someone and We Are All Characters.
Preservation Workshop: Homemade Book Weights Presented by the Davenport Public Library

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