EXCLUSIVE: First Marvel, Then DC, Now Library Binding… Published Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:00:09 -0500 by Rich Johnston | Last updated Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:42:52 -0500 ...

A historic Waco company, Library Binding, has gone out of business and sold its assets to Houchen Bindery of Utica, Neb., sources confirmed Wednesday. About 30 employees, some of whom had worked ...

On April 7, 2023, Frederick C. James passed away. Fritz was owner and president of Library Binding Service (LBS) for 40 years, and through his drive, determination and innovation, ...

Harvard University has removed binding made of human skin used in a 19th-century book held at Houghton Library. In a statement released Wednesday, the university said that it decided to do so ...

Harvard Library announced this month that it had removed human skin from the binding of its 1880s copy of "Des destinées de l’âme" by Arsène Houssaye, which was held at the Houghton Library.

Harvard University has removed human skin binding from a book that has been in its library collection for 90 years and apologized for its “past failures” in managing the volume.

The library apologised, saying that it had “further objectified and compromised the dignity of the human being whose remains were used for its binding”.