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Wednesday, July 26, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Librarian is bound to protect preserve literary treasures
By Trine Nygaard
Kansan staff writer
Brian J. Baird pulls an old, leather-bound book out of his desk and does exactly what he is trying to teach KU students to never do: he bends one of the corners.
The paper, brittle from wear and tear, crumbles to dust as he rubs the surface. Little white flakes fall slowly onto his desk. He has proven his point.
"You can't preserve all books," he said. "Some will eventually go brittle no matter what."
While working as a student librarian at Brigham Young, he became interested in book preservation and graduated in 1991 with a master's degree in library science.
Baird, KU's preservation librarian, grew up in Preston, Idaho. Allergies and his love for academia forced him to leave the family dairy farm. He headed to Brigham Young University.
He settled into his office in the basement of Watson Library in December 1994 after two years at Princeton University as a collections conservator and assistant preservation librarian.
"It was a good promotion and a chance to get back west," he said of his choice to leave Princeton for the University of Kansas. "I enjoyed it at Princeton. It was a good experience, but I don't like the East Coast so much. There are too many people so I was excited to go back."
The structure of the job at KU made it very inviting, he said. He got a chance to create a new conservation department and answers directly to the dean of libraries, Bill Crowe.
"He has first class professional preparation and practical experience from Princeton," Crowe said. "He was attracted by our collections and has already put together a proposal for a scientifically valid, systematic study to assess the state of our collections. He is fulfilling my expectations very well."
Crowe said that Baird had his priorities straight and was doing a fine job.
Baird oversees an annual budget of $165,000 and the preservation of materials for the entire library system. His department binds 25,000 volumes each year. Most of these are loose-leaf journals that cannot be shelved until they are bound. In 1994, the preservation department also repaired 6,000 books in need of restoration because of age or mistreatment.
User vandalism is one of Baird's pet peeves. In the lobby of Watson, he has created an exhibit showing some of the damaged KU library books he has encountered.
Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN
One book has been used as a drink coaster. Another book bears the mark from the burner of an electric stove. Others are marked with different colored highlights, dog ears and rusty lines from paper clips.
Brian Baird, preservation librarian, displays an exhibit of damaged and mistreated books at Watson Library. Baird is in charge of caring for the holdings at all KU libraries.
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Baird hopes to make a lasting impression on library users and plans to have similar exhibits every year to heighten awareness.
Baird said the preservation of books helped make them available and accessible to everyone who wanted to use them.
"We bind books so they won't fall apart, and we repair stuff that's damaged so that it can continue to be used," he said. "So many books are irreplaceable. Even if you had a million dollars, you couldn't replace them because they simply don't exist."
Preserving books is preserving history,he said.
"Books are Western culture," Baird said. "That's what we inherited from the Greeks. Books have been central to our culture forever and always will be."
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