U Of M bookbinder reaches final chapter after 63 years

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For more than 63 years, Craven has bound books and conserved artifacts on Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus.

On Friday, the 81-year-old Craven leaves campus, retiring as the longest-serving staff member in the university’s history.

He began working part-time at the university in 1947 while he was still in high school in a bookbindery in the basement of the Hatcher Graduate Library.