Scrapbook (book binding structure)
A book used to store a variety of memorabilia, such as clippings, pictures, and photographs. Generally produced as a blank book and then filled in by the user, though printed and manuscript volumes have been reused as scrapbooks. A scrapbook is distinguished from a photographic album (photo album) by the variety of materials it contains, though there is significant overlap between the two in terms of structure and function.
Related Terms[edit | edit source]
Synonyms in English[edit | edit source]
album, blank book, blankbook, scrap album, scrap-book
Translation[edit | edit source]
| English | scrapbook |
| French | recueil de collages, un scrapbook |
| French (Québec) | créacollage, collimage |
| Spanish | álbum de recortes |
| Portuguese | |
| Italian | album di ritagli |
| German | Sammelalbum |
| Russian | |
| Arabic | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 剪貼簿 |
| Chinese | jiǎn tiē bù (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin), jian tie bu (transliterated Pinyin without tones), chien t'ieh pu (transliterated Wade-Giles) |
| Dutch | plakboeken, plakboek |
| Swedish | klippalbum, klippbok |
Discussion[edit | edit source]
A more in-depth discussion of the nature of scrapbooks and their conservation and preservation is located in the Book Conservation Wiki's page on BPG Scrapbooks.
References[edit | edit source]
"Scrapbook." 2005. A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Society of American Archivists. Accessed August 12, 2015. http://www2.archivists.org/glossary.
"Scrapbooking" Wikipédia (French). Accessed August 12, 2015. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapbooking.
"Scrapbooks". 2004. Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Trust. Accessed August 12, 2015. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/.
Etherington, Don, and Roberts, Matt T. 1982. "Blankbook". Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Accessed August 12, 2015. http://cool.conservation-us.org/don//.
Horton, Richard. 2000. “Glossary of Terms Relating to Photo Albums” in Conservation of Scrapbooks and Albums: Postprints of the Book and Paper Group/Photographic Materials Group Joint Session at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. 21-28. AIC, Washington, DC. Note that this term was accidentally omitted from the 2011 version of this text.
Horton, Richard. 2012. “Glossary” in Hand Bookbinder's Guide to Making Photo Albums. 75-88. Published by the author.
