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 →

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 →

Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings TAGS: collections care | conservation | decorated paper | rehousing | technician | University of Edinburgh In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses her Decorated Paper rehousing project. If you want to learn about the uses, production, …Continue reading →

Books, Boxes and Bugs! A day in the life of a Collections Care Technician at the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | collections | conservation | Exhibition | Integrated pest managment | Library | Museums | rehousing | technician Welcome to our new Day in the Life Series! The Conservation and Collections Management team recently recruited three new members of staff. In this series each of our new team …Continue reading →

Documenting I.C.28 TAGS: Anatomy | bodysnatchers | bones | Burke | Burke and Hare | Centre for Research Collections | Centre for Research Collections Digital Imaging Unit | CHDS | collections | composite | conservation | crime | cultural heritage | Cultural Heritage Digitisation | Digital Imaging | Edinburgh | edinburgh crime | High Quality Photography | Library | medical history | National Museum of Scotland | photography | Scotland | skeleton | skull | true crime | University of Edinburgh | University of Edinburgh Digital Imaging Unit | University of Edinburgh Library | victorian Last summer, I spent five days photographing the skeleton of William Burke to document recent conservation as a record for future collection care. The remains had been conserved and cleaned …Continue reading →

From Castles to Cradle: Photographing the Lyell Notebooks TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | conservation | Digital Imaging Unit | Geology and Geologists | High Quality Photography | Lyell Notebooks | Sir Charles Lyell I was delighted to take on the challenge of helping photograph the University’s collection of notebooks of geologist Sir Charles Lyell, and there’s a bit more to photographing 300 notebooks …Continue reading →

Project Reboot! TAGS: Archives | Archives Access and Engagement | Archives Cataloguing | Archives Conservation | Centre for Research Collections | conservation | Geology | rehousing | Sir Charles Lyell (1795-1875) The last few years has seen us all face challenges and embrace change – and the Charles Lyell Project is no different. The Project has said farewell to Elaine and …Continue reading →

The Skene Album – An artistic partnership between author and artist TAGS: conservation | High Quality Photography | Illustration | James Skene | Landscape | Scotland | Sir Walter Scott | Skene Album James Skene was a close friend of one of Scotland’s greatest and most influential writers. By profession  he was a lawyer, but he was also a keen amateur artist. Skene …Continue reading →

Righting Letters – Conserving the Lyell Collection TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | conservation | rehousing | SirCharlesLyell | University of Edinburgh Today we have the first installment of a two-part series from Sarah MacLean. Sarah is here on an 8-week internship funded by the NMCT to help with the conservation of …Continue reading →

The Forsaken Mermaid TAGS: Andrew Taylor-Elder | Archives | Celtic Ballet | Celtic Revival | Centre for Research Collections | conservation | Erik Chisholm | Fergusson Gallery | folk-tales | Margaret Morris | Margaret Morris Movement | Scottish Ballet | Scottish music | The Forsaken Mermaid | Wellcome Trust Research Resource Fund This week we dig a little deeper into the story behind a document that was conserved in the course of our project work in 2018, and discover legendary sea creatures …Continue reading →