Lives and Deaths of Academic Library Staplers: Documenting the destruction of public staplers at an academic library reference desk. The name says it all. Pictures of staplers, working and not; failed and successful surgeries; and memorials for the dead.
"Staplers 7 and 18 are missing."
"Stapler 16 is dead."
"Someone left me an unsigned note."
"Frankenstapler, “the Adam of my labours,” is dead."
"Stapler 13 is going to be fine."
"A funeral pyre."
