LISNews: Library Futurists

At her bench, Tamara Hennessy works with tools crafted from cow bones, glue brushes, a knife-like device and, not least, a sharp sense of mission.
Hennessy is a bookbinder.

She restores the physical being of treasured volumes and, consequently, the ideas, adventures and illustrations within their pages.

Hennessy, whose business is Monterey Book Works, has her workshop in her Corral de Tierra home. A former librarian, she's been bookbinding 20 years, the last eight full-time. She learned the basics at workshops.

She describes some of the treasures she has seen and worked on in this article in The Californian.