Putting the Pieces Together: The Challenges of Working on Architectural Models (Part 2) This week we have the final part of Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle’s series on the conservation treatment of three Percy Johnson-Marshall architectural models. The first part can be read  here. …Continue reading →

Volunteering at the CRC: Charlotte’s experience TAGS: Archives | children's books | illustrators | Theatre Today we’re introducing Charlotte Holmes, a postgraduate student who is doing some volunteer work under the supervision of archivist Aline Brodin. Her main task is to catalogue and box-list two …Continue reading →

Ridicule and research support: Library Twitter strikes back! TAGS: dissertation | Diversity | information skills | informationskills | keywords | Legal databases | news | online resources | power structures | research | resources Library and research branches of Twitter were outraged recently when two American Law students published a paper in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy relating to abortion rights. …Continue reading →

Conservator Claire turns to the dark side (but it all ends well). I am now in my final week of the Lyell Project; time has flown by as myself and our exceptional interns have breezed through the plethora of material in this …Continue reading →

New blog from the Digitisation Service Its taking teams of multi-skilled people to open up the Charles Lyell collection! Read all about the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service Team’s efforts to digitise the Notebooks on their latest …Continue reading →

LILAC 2022: Being Better Teachers TAGS: academic writing | conference | critical information skills | digital skills | E-book | e-books | information literacy | journal club | online resources | pandemic | students In our third and final post about the LILAC conference (you can find part one here and part two here) I wanted to touch on the topic of becoming better …Continue reading →

From Castles to Cradle: Photographing the Lyell Notebooks TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | conservation | Digital Imaging Unit | Geology and Geologists | High Quality Photography | Lyell Notebooks | Sir Charles Lyell I was delighted to take on the challenge of helping photograph the University’s collection of notebooks of geologist Sir Charles Lyell, and there’s a bit more to photographing 300 notebooks …Continue reading →

Database trial for Chinese and Japanese ancient books Some of us may have already used Diaolong Complete Si Ku Series (in Databases A-Z) that we have subscribed to for the last few years. This resource is part of …Continue reading →