We ALL Hate Mr Clippy: the horrors of paperclips

~ alison-cullingford

Anyone caring for archives will know the horrors of rusty staples and paperclips or claggy broken rubber bands, which riddle most modern collections.  In this great blog post, “Why I Hate Mr Clippy“, Beth Doyle of Duke University Libraries explains the mischief these fasteners do and shares some tips for dealing with them quickly and effectively.

Advertisement

Published by alison-cullingford

Writer and heritage professional with particular interest in the management of special collections, rare books and archives. Author of the Special Collections Handbook.

One thought on “We ALL Hate Mr Clippy: the horrors of paperclips”

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s