Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Loose-leaf Material TAGS: book conservation | Centre for Collections | collections care | conservation | decorated paper | paper conservation | Preventative Conservation | rare books | rehousing | technican | University of Edinburgh In this post, Technician Robyn Rogers discusses her bespoke mounting and rehousing of loose-leaf papers from the University’s decorated paper collection. Robyn’s first post about working through the collection’s bound …Continue reading →

Conserving calligraphy: preparing Esther Inglis’ manuscripts for digitisation TAGS: Archives | book conservation | Centre for Research Collections | digitisation | Esther Inglis | Exhibition | paper conservation In this post book conservator Amy Baldwin talks about the conservation work undertaken on volumes appearing in the upcoming online exhibition “Rewriting the script: the works and words of Esther …Continue reading →

Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles TAGS: book conservation | book cradles | book display | book mount | Centre for Research Collections | conservation | display | environmental sustainability | Exhibition | installation | mounting | panoramas | rare books | SirCharlesLyell | Sustainability | technician | University of Edinburgh In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed as part of the conservation team’s ongoing work to make exhibitions at the University of …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 →

A Book of Two Halves TAGS: angle support | book conservation | digitisation | sewing damage Our Projects Conservator, Nicole, describes a technique for repairing books that have broken in half in this week’s blog… I have now moved full time to the conservation studio at …Continue reading →

PhD Theses Conservation TAGS: book conservation | digitisation | PhD My name is Nicole and I am excited to be in my fourth week as the new digitisation project conservator working on conserving the PhD theses before digitisation. The PhDs …Continue reading →

Book conservation skills for paper conservators TAGS: basic repairs | book conservation | National Library of Scotland This week’s blog post comes from Projects Conservator, Katharine Richardson, who recently attended a workshop to learn basic book conservation techniques…. Last month I attended a two day workshop, Book Conservation …Continue reading →