{"id":333,"date":"2021-04-01T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/?p=333"},"modified":"2021-03-30T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T20:02:23","slug":"fundraising-for-lyell-digitisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/2021\/04\/01\/fundraising-for-lyell-digitisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising for Lyell Digitisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Library and University Collections Philanthropy Manager, David McClay, brings us news on the fundraising campaign to digitise the Sir Charles Lyell notebooks.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_335\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-335\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/files\/2021\/03\/Lyell-notebook-Italy-cover-and-index-1828-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Digital colour image of the cover of Sir Charles Lyell's notebook, created during his travels in Italy in 1828. The top of the index details 'Verona to Montecchio Maggiore' (Ref: Coll-203\/A1\/7)\" width=\"239\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/files\/2021\/03\/Lyell-notebook-Italy-cover-and-index-1828-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/files\/2021\/03\/Lyell-notebook-Italy-cover-and-index-1828.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover and index of Sir Charles Lyell&#8217;s notebook, Italy, 1828 (Ref: Coll-203\/A1\/7)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The fundraising campaign to digitise Sir Charles Lyell\u2019s notebooks is now well underway. To reach our ambitious target of \u00a3125,000 we are hoping that new and existing Lyell supporters and friends will consider donating. Might you be able to help?<\/p>\n<p>We have already been delighted to receive many individual donations from the UK and overseas. If you too would like to donate you can do so online via our <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.ed.ac.uk\/portal\/public\/donate\/donate.aspx?destination=LyellAccess\">Donation Portal <\/a>or if you are from the United States of America, please see our guidance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/crc\/the-sir-charles-lyell-collection\/support-the-collection\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are involved in an historical, geological organisation which would be interested in learning more about Lyell, his notebooks and collections, and our plans to make them fully accessible please do get in touch: <a href=\"mailto:david.mcclay@ed.ac.uk\">david.mcclay@ed.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David McClay<br \/>\nPhilanthropy Manager, Library &amp; University Collections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library and University Collections Philanthropy Manager, David McClay, brings us news on the fundraising campaign to digitise the Sir Charles Lyell notebooks. The fundraising campaign to digitise Sir Charles Lyell\u2019s notebooks is now well underway. To reach our ambitious target of \u00a3125,000 we are hoping that new and existing Lyell supporters and friends will consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19,29,28,18],"tags":[12,25,13,30,11,27],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnwkP-5n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}