Documentation Challenges in Practice: Art Collection Barcoding Project TAGS: Barcodes | collections care | Collections Management | Disassociation | Documentation | Edinburgh University Art Collections | Labels In this week’s blog, our Art Collection Documentation Assistant Gaby Cortes discusses some of the challenges involved in auditing the Art Collection and how the addition of barcode labels is …Continue reading →

Art Collection Audit Spotlight: Edinburgh College of Art Works on Paper TAGS: audit | cast collection | Collections Management | Edinburgh University Art Collections | paper In this week’s blog our Art Collection Documentation Assistant Gaby Cortes discusses the work she has been undertaking for the first phase of a campus-wide audit of the Art Collection, …Continue reading →

It’s audit time! TAGS: Collections Management | Edinburgh University Art Collections Anyone who has attended a meeting, had a conversation in the corridor, or bumped into me in one of our stores, knows that one of my main talking points for …Continue reading →

You’ve Been Unframed! TAGS: conservation | Edinburgh University Art Collections | framing | mounting At the start of April, I started conservation work on the Edinburgh University Art Collections. I had previously been working at the Lothian Health Services Archive on a 12-month project …Continue reading →