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I love a puzzle probably twice as much as the next person, but some challenges are more challenging than others. Doing a stringent weed of the Gunnin's reference collection, yesterday I came across the title in the subject line, contained in a three-ring binder, vintage 1974. As I transferred the binder to my 'working' book cart, it left behind a delightful stream of colorful little squares-on the shelf, across the carpet, on my shoes. Sigh. Making sure to gather up every one of them, I opened the binder on my work table-only to discover a dozen or more colorful squares caught in the binder's spine and/or otherwise wandering about between the page leaves. Every turn of a page released another one or two. At first I resorted to Elmer's glue, for those color bits whose place I was sure I knew. I'm pretty good with color. But the deeper into the atlas I got, the more the situation devolved into hopelessness. So I took it home with me, and on the kitchen counter-with a supply of paper clips-I gathered the loose color samples into what I settled upon as related groupings. Those I could definitively associate with a specific placing I clipped to the top of the page. But still---If I were to repair it (assuming it still has use value, which remains an open question), what sort of glue should I use? The original substance held up for nearly 50 years-impressive. Any advice appreciated, and-Happy 2022. May all the year's challenges be this mundane... Kathy Kathy Edwards Librarian, Emery A. Gunnin Architecture Library 2-112 Lee Hall Clemson University [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 864.656.4289 Schedule an appointment with me<https://clemson.libcal.com/appointments/kathye> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~