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Article: BOUND AND DETERMINED WATERVLIET VOLUNTEER LIBRARIANS BECOME BOOKBINDERS TO SAVE CRUMBLING CITY DIRECTORIES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 5, 1995
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Byline: BARBARA DELANEY Staff Writer
Surgeons have it. Architects and engineers have it, and people like Nancy Russell have it the ability to visualize the inside of a solid object.
Called structural visualization or a 3-D sense, it is a natural gift, which also makes for a good sculptor, choreographer and, in the case of Russell, a bookbinder.
``To be a bookbinder,'' said Russell, ``requires manual dexterity, a 3-D sense and the ability to be painstaking or act quickly before the glue dries.''
Russell, who is 75, learned she had the talent some 40 years ago when she tested at the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation in Manhattan, ...