Water Quality Part 3 – Survey TAGS: filtered water | remote internship | tap water | water filtration | water purification | water quality | water testing | water testing programme In the third instalment of this four-part series, remote intern Mhairi Boyle discusses the survey she created to get insight on water type and water usage from fellow paper conservators …Continue reading →

Water Quality Part 2 – Water Tests TAGS: chlorine | distilled water | filtered water | remote internship | spring water | tap water | water purification | water quality Join us today for remote intern Mhairi Boyle’s second instalment of her four-part series on water quality and its impact on paper. Here she discusses the tests and analysis she …Continue reading →

Water Quality Part 1 – Introduction TAGS: remote internship | tap water | water purification | water quality Today we have the first instalment of a four-part series from our remote intern Mhairi Boyle. In her first instalment, Mhairi shares with us the importance of water and its …Continue reading →

Assessing books for exhibition TAGS: assessing books | Exhibition | Leventis Foundation This week Special Collections Conservator Anna O’Regan talks us through her experience of learning new skills and how they were applied to conserving a group of books for an upcoming …Continue reading →

“Meet the…Special Collections Conservator” Podcast TAGS: podcast | special collections conservator Our Special Collections Conservator, Emily Hick, recently took part in the “Meet the…” series organised by VOiCE (Volunteers in Collections Engagement) at the Centre for Research Collections (CRC). This was …Continue reading →

Crowdsourcing Conservation – Thomas Nelson Collection TAGS: crowdsourcing conservation | rehousing | thomas nelson collection Following on from the popular “Crowdsourcing Conservation” sessions held in February 2017 and 2018, the Centre for Research Collections held seven more crowdsourcing events from October 2018 to March 2019. …Continue reading →

Completion of the Thomson-Walker Project TAGS: CMC poultice | Thomson Walker collection In this week’s blog our final Thomson-Walker Intern, Giulia, talks about the completion of the Thomson-Walker project and her experience of working at the CRC… We did it! The conservation …Continue reading →

Thomson-Walker Internship – Round 3! TAGS: Internship | Thomson-Walker In this week’s blog we hear from Clàudia Callau Buxaderas, who is the third in a series of interns to work on the Thomson-Walker collection… It has been almost eight …Continue reading →

Scottish Session Papers Condition Survey TAGS: bound volumes | digitisation | Scottish Session Papers In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator, Emily, describes the conservation problems encountered during a condition survey of a collection of bound volumes… I have recently carried out a condition …Continue reading →

Conservation Placement – Northumbria University TAGS: float mounting | indian paintings | Northumbria University | tasawir | v-hinge Lisa Mitchell, conservation placement student from Northumbria University, describes her experience of working at the CRC in this week’s blog post… Over the past two weeks I have had the …Continue reading →