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October 2, 2023
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 →
A Scottish Witness of the Great Kantō Earthquake
To mark the centenary of the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, we are publishing a...
Come Hither: Walter de la Mare and the Young of All Ages
The English writer Walter de la Mare was born 150 years ago this week on...
Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...
The Book Surgery Part 2: Bringing Everything Together
In this blog, Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle her second day of in-situ book conservation training...
