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 →

CRC: A Space Odyssey – Day in the Life of a Collections Management Technician  TAGS: appraisal | Archives | Archives Appraisal | Collections Management | University of Edinburgh My name is Jasmine, and I’ve been working here at the University for five and a bit months as the Collections Management Technician. I’m the other half to Robyn Rogers’ …Continue reading →

Appraisal Made Easy (If Only…): A Day in the Life of an Appraisal Archivist TAGS: appraisal | Archives | university archives | University of Edinburgh Welcome to our Day in the Life Series, where each of our new team members will give you an insight into life behind the scenes at the University of Edinburgh’s …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 →

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 →

New home for Edinburgh Research Data Blog! TAGS: blog | data | datablog | Edinburgh | Edinburgh DataShare | Edinburgh DataVault | Edinburgh Research Data Blog | MANTRA | Research Data | Research Data Management | Research Data Service | University of Edinburgh Tempus fugit. This Data Blog, which has been going since 2013 is now moving to Edinburgh University Libraryblogs. This follows the 2018 organisational merger of the Data Library team at …Continue reading →

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 →

The Christmas Book Flood TAGS: Christmas | UCF | University Collections Facility | University of Edinburgh Here at the UCF, things are feeling firmly festive – the tiny office tree has been bedecked, mince pies are heaped in the break room, and staff are sporting some …Continue reading →

Halloween Highland Superstitions TAGS: halloween | UCF | University of Edinburgh The day of Halloween is upon us and here at the UCF we’re marking the occasion the only way we know how…with some seriously spooky books! A quick click through …Continue reading →

Impact of the War on the University and the Art College TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | education | First World War | university | University of Edinburgh The following was written by Gillian McDonald, a MSc Scottish Studies intern, who spent some time in early 2013 looking at selected items in the archives of the two institutions …Continue reading →