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 →

Homes for Rocks – Rehousing the Lyell Geological Specimen Collection Today we have the first installment of a two-part series from Joanne Fulton. Joanne is here on an 8-week internship funded by the John R. Murray Charitable Trust to help with …Continue reading →

Dissertation Festival 2021 TAGS: Archaeology | Archives | Centre for Research Collections | classics | databases | dissertation | history | literature searching | National Library of Scotland | Newspapers | official documents | parliamentary papers | primary source | search strategy | Special Collections From 8 – 19 March the Library is running an online Dissertation Festival. The events taking place during this two week period will highlight what the Library can do for …Continue reading →

Discovering ProQuest Primary Sources TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | Africa | Archives | Black history | Britain | cultural history | databases | Europe | gender studies | history | Iran | Newspapers | official documents | Politics | primary source | social history | United States Looking for primary sources and historical documents for your dissertation or research project? Interested in finding out more about how to search some of the primary source databases you have …Continue reading →

The Edinburgh School of Social Study and Training Foundations: Social work training at the University of Edinburgh has gone through several guises since it was first taught in 1918.  Initially it was established as the Edinburgh School of …Continue reading →

A New Profession TAGS: Archives | Social Work | students From 1 October 1928 The Edinburgh School of Social Study and Training, established in 1918, was to be incorporated into the University. Students at the school had been entitled to …Continue reading →

Crowdsourcing Conservation 2018 TAGS: crowdsourcing | David Laing | rehousing Due to the success of last year’s ‘Crowdsourcing Conservation’ event, we are repeating the session on 19 and 20 February 2018! You can read more about last year’s event here. …Continue reading →

Under the Skin: Studies in Parchment TAGS: analysis of parchment | conservation of parchment | identification of parchment | National Archives | under the skin studies in parchment | x-ray This week’s blog comes from Special Collections Conservator, Emily, who recently took part in a training event in London on the conservation of parchment. This is the first in a …Continue reading →

E-learning with Employ.ed TAGS: employ.ed | Integrated pest managment | IPM | Preventative Conservation Today we hear from Sophie, our first ever Employ.ed student in the conservation studio… Hi, my name is Sophie Lawson and I am currently the Conservation E-learning intern at the …Continue reading →

Paper and Water: Conservation Principles TAGS: interaction of paper and water | paper and water: a guide for conservators This week’s blog post comes from Special Collections Conservator, Emily, who recently attended a conservation training workshop in Edinburgh… Earlier this year in September, I attended a two-day course organised by …Continue reading →