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October 1, 2023
Pocketbooks from the Past TAGS: AHFAP | Bookeye | cobots | Geology and Geologists | Lyell Notebooks | Sir Charles Lyell Last month I started working at the Cultural Heritage and Digitisation Service (CHDS) as a Digitisation Operator. Before joining the team, I was working on a large digitisation project at …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 →
Lyell’s School of Rock TAGS: Edinburgh | Geology and Geologists | Lyell Notebooks | Sir Charles Lyell | University of Edinburgh Digital Imaging Unit | University of Edinburgh Library In November 2019 the Library excitedly welcomed Sir Charles Lyell’s two hundred and ninety-four notebooks into its Special Collections. With support and funding from leading institutions, groups and donations …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...
