Semply the Best: A Collection in Need of Some Love TAGS: large scale survey | School of Divinity | Semple Collection | surface cleaning | University of Edinburgh This week’s blog comes from Project Collections Assistants Anna O’Regan, Winona O’Connor and Max Chesnokov who worked with Preventive Conservator Katharine Richardson on a project back in 2019 to survey …Continue reading →

Who You Gonna Call? (Dustbusters!) TAGS: museum vacuum cleaners | surface cleaning | University Collection Facility This week’s blog comes from Project Collections Assistants, Anna O’Regan and Stephanie Allen, who assisted the Museum Collections Team with a large scale move of artworks by Edinburgh College of Art …Continue reading →

Bigger and Better Things TAGS: Conservation of large format collections | patrick geddes | surface cleaning | tear repair In this week’s blog, Sarah MacLean, an MA Conservation of Fine Art student from Northumbria University, describes a two-week work placement she undertook with us in July 2018… During my …Continue reading →

Session Paper Project Internship TAGS: Scottish Session Papers | surface cleaning | tear repair My name is Claire and I am the first intern to work with Nicole on the Session Papers Project.  I am due to graduate with a master’s degree in paper …Continue reading →

Conservation Volunteers in the Collections Rationalisation Project TAGS: Collections rationalisation project | rare books | surface cleaning | volunteers This week our Project Conservator, Helen, talks about the great work volunteers have done as a part of the Collections Rationalisation project… Some of the main aims of the Collections …Continue reading →

New Conservation Internship at the CRC TAGS: Books | collection rationalisation | conservation | surface cleaning This week’s blog is written by our new conservation Intern, Holly, who is working on a collections rationalisation project within the rare books department… I am now beginning my third …Continue reading →

Finding my way around the map and atlas collection TAGS: atlas | Maps | surface cleaning | tear repair | University Collection Facility We catch up with Helen, our Projects Conservator at the University Collections Facility (UCF), in this week’s blog… As the Rationalisation Projects Conservator my role is to make sure that …Continue reading →

A Taste of Conservation TAGS: Centre for Collections | Conservation Taster Day | four flap folder | infill | surface cleaning | tear repair In this week’s blog we hear from Anna O’Regan, who recently attended a Conservation Taster Day at the CRC. Anna discusses why she wanted to take part, and what she …Continue reading →

Medieval Manuscripts from the Dirt Ages TAGS: David Laing | medieval manuscripts | paper | parchment | surface cleaning February saw the start of a new project to surface clean and rehouse the CRC’s most important collection of Western medieval manuscripts, which were bequeathed to the library by David …Continue reading →