Opportunity Knocks… We have been very pleased to welcome some new faces to the conservation studio over the past month – we now have two new conservation volunteers, Olivia and Collette, and …Continue reading →

Paper Conservation – techniques and tricks Interested in learning more about conservation activity at the University? Come along to our Pop-Up Library Session at the Main Library tomorrow, Tuesday 30th at 10am and take the opportunity …Continue reading →

Conservation, with Honours With Fresher Week just past, it seems fitting that this post should be based around diplomas – even if graduating does seem a long way off for these new students! …Continue reading →

How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Archive TAGS: Archives | placement | trainee By Vanessa Johnson, conservation trainee and armchair physicist   Well, it’s been six weeks and I’ve survived! Although if archives could kill, the repository of world knowledge would go untapped …Continue reading →

Policies, Postcards and Prophylactics: Conserving Lothian Health Services Archive’s UNESCO-awarded HIV/AIDS Collections (1983-2010) My name is Emily and I am Project Conservator at Lothian Health Services Archive. LHSA is based at the Centre for Research Collections, where we share a conservation studio with …Continue reading →

Pressing Matters TAGS: Special Collections As a conservator, you can often find some rather surprising and unexpected ephemera in archive and book collections. Take, for example, this folder from the University’s Aitken Collection. At first …Continue reading →

A Photo Opportunity “A picture is worth a thousand words”. As this often quoted adage alludes to, photographs have the ability to capture a moment in time. Whether they are images of stern …Continue reading →

A Case for Sensorship Preventive conservation, and environmental monitoring in particular, is an important part of my job as Conservation Officer at the University. It was for this reason, therefore, that I found myself …Continue reading →

Conserving Laing III In April this year, I was lucky enough to be offered a 10 week internship to begin conservation work on the David Laing Bequest of rare books. This internship was …Continue reading →

Welcome! Welcome to the new University of Edinburgh’s conservation blog. This post will be the first of many, keeping you up-to-date with all the interesting and exciting aspects of the conservation …Continue reading →