A big welcome to our new Student Collections Care Assistants We are delighted to welcome three new people to the Conservation and Collections Management Team this month. Abigail Miskin, Ella Joyce and Isabela Tapia Hernandez will be joining us as …Continue reading →

The Art of Asking: Requesting Loans for Exhibition By Morven Rodger, Collections Registrar, Heritage Collections As the Collections Registrar, one of my core responsibilities is coordinating loans from the University’s Heritage Collections to external exhibitions. Whenever an item …Continue reading →

Who Made the MIMEd 4477 Double Manual Flemish Harpsichord? (Part1) In the first post of this two part series, our Musical Instrument Care Technician (and former conservation intern), Esteban Mariño Garza, discusses his Musical Instrument Research and Documentation Internship project …Continue reading →

Lingerie, Giant Frisbees and Heavy Lifting: Tackling the ITI Collection at Edinburgh University TAGS: appraisal | Archives | Computing | information technology By Abigail Hartley, Appraisal Archivist and Archives Collections Manager Several months ago, my colleague Jasmine Hide and I wrote two introductory posts about our new roles and what they entailed. This …Continue reading →

It’s Friday the 13th! It’s that time of the year when the leaves start changing, the air gets cooler, and I get creeped out by works in the collection… As the Art Collection is …Continue reading →

Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings TAGS: collections care | conservation | decorated paper | rehousing | technician | University of Edinburgh In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses her Decorated Paper rehousing project. If you want to learn about the uses, production, …Continue reading →

CRC: A Space Odyssey – Day in the Life of a Collections Management Technician  TAGS: appraisal | Archives | Archives Appraisal | Collections Management | University of Edinburgh My name is Jasmine, and I’ve been working here at the University for five and a bit months as the Collections Management Technician. I’m the other half to Robyn Rogers’ …Continue reading →

Appraisal Made Easy (If Only…): A Day in the Life of an Appraisal Archivist TAGS: appraisal | Archives | university archives | University of Edinburgh Welcome to our Day in the Life Series, where each of our new team members will give you an insight into life behind the scenes at the University of Edinburgh’s …Continue reading →

Books, Boxes and Bugs! A day in the life of a Collections Care Technician at the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | collections | conservation | Exhibition | Integrated pest managment | Library | Museums | rehousing | technician Welcome to our new Day in the Life Series! The Conservation and Collections Management team recently recruited three new members of staff. In this series each of our new team …Continue reading →

The Book Surgery Part 2: Bringing Everything Together TAGS: book conservation | paper conservation | Royal Dick Vet School | Training In this blog, Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle her second day of in-situ book conservation training she has undertaken with Book Conservator Caroline Scharfenberg (ACR). Mhairi previously undertook a Maternity Cover …Continue reading →