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The Library of Lost Books is a collection of old, discarded and damaged library books which we have rescued from certain death-by-pulping...Because life is pretty hard for library books.
They suffer terribly from dog-eared pages, broken spines, battered covers, unregulated scribblings and margin annotations. Library books can have a short lifespan.

Elderly or damaged library books that are still in print may get replaced...then there are the books no longer in regular use, those that have sat on shelves in the stacks for decades and never been checked out...

...new books are being published and bought by libraries everyday, so those old, unread tomes also find their way into the discard bin. Birmingham Library kindly let us rescue a bunch of their elderly, unwanted, and battered books.We had to travel deep into the stacks and rummage around in bins but we found treasure. Old books and music scores with beautiful paper, interesting old bindings, engravings, old photographs and letterpress printed pages.

Their spines were broken, their pages speckled,  but we loved them. We figured other people would love them too. Each rescued book is being sent to a selected UK artist to be re-made as a work of art.

The re-worked books will come together as The Library of Lost Books.
They will be exhibited together in Birmingham in 2013 and will go on to form a travelling exhibition around the UK.

If you are interested in being a part of The Library of Lost Books we can offer you library membership which gives you access to our artists and makers website, your own membership card and even the chance to attend the opening party in 2013. It's a bit like being let in through the back door...

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