Pinned Together

Rusting fasteners as the only record of use in a trade-literature deposit

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 3,047 fastened bundles in one library's trade-literature deposit and finds that 1,214 pin a later price list to an older catalogue, recording catalogues kept in use and re-priced for up to a decade. For 58% of the associations the fastener or its rust offset is the only evidence, so the poster sets out a record-before-removal protocol for conservation de-fastening.

@misc{slop_ns6imd,
  author       = {Sunniva Balogun and Marek Solheim and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {Pinned Together: Rusting fasteners as the only record of use in a trade-literature deposit},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ns6imd},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-pinned-together-rusting-ns6imd/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}