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At the beginning of the first lockdown, we had to quickly rethink how to provide #BodleianReaders with the material they needed.
Colleagues from across @BodCons came together to help support the mediated scanning service to #KeepOxfordReading
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Colleagues from across @BodCons came together to help support the mediated scanning service to #KeepOxfordReading
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The Conservation & Collection Care team delivered our first online training sessions to the Weston Library reading room staff, giving them handling advice for scanning Special Collections.
More than 70,000 items have been scanned so far!
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More than 70,000 items have been scanned so far!
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Our colleague Emma Skinner was a key part of this training.
She has been with us since March completing her three-part internship focusing on conservation for digitisation - which included time at the @UkNatArchives and @britishlibrary
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She has been with us since March completing her three-part internship focusing on conservation for digitisation - which included time at the @UkNatArchives and @britishlibrary
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In October we welcomed the newest member of Conservation & Collection Care @BodCons, Kirstin Norwood - socially distanced and wearing face coverings of course!
Kirstin joined the Book Conservation team.
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Kirstin joined the Book Conservation team.
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Kirstin has been working closely with our longest serving member of the book team, Andrew Dawson, who started at the Bodleian age 16!
Here’s #howitstartedvshowitsgoing!
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Here’s #howitstartedvshowitsgoing!
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Andrew has been showing Kirstin the ropes and teaching her the repair techniques needed to treat the heavily used reference books we conserve for the wider libraries.
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More than meets the eye!
Part of the work of @BodCons is to assess the condition of manuscripts and for this, a microscope is a useful tool to examine painted surfaces in great detail.
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Part of the work of @BodCons is to assess the condition of manuscripts and for this, a microscope is a useful tool to examine painted surfaces in great detail.
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Viewing a manuscript through a microscope can reveal artists techniques and the condition of the painted media.
Thanks to the generosity of external donors, currently being examined and conserved in our studio is ‘The Douce Album’...
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Thanks to the generosity of external donors, currently being examined and conserved in our studio is ‘The Douce Album’...
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‘The Douce Album’ (MS. Douce Or. A. 1) is an album assembled for a Mughal prince in the 17th century and bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in 1834 by bibliophile Francis Douce.
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The #HelenMuspratt photographic archive was recently gifted to the Libraries. We’re working on its long term storage.
The prints & negatives in the pioneering photographer's collection present a few preservation challenges...
One solution: biscuits!
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The prints & negatives in the pioneering photographer's collection present a few preservation challenges...
One solution: biscuits!
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It’s not Conservation tea time; this tin is full of negatives waiting to be rehoused.
The tin isn’t suitable for long term storage, and the 'negs' will be packaged for freezer storage.
There are thousands of negs to package and not a biscuit in sight!
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The tin isn’t suitable for long term storage, and the 'negs' will be packaged for freezer storage.
There are thousands of negs to package and not a biscuit in sight!
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An free exhibition of Helen Muspratt's work recently reopened (after #lockdown2uk) in Weston Library, Oxford.
To avoid unnecessary light exposure during the closure, our colleagues in the Exhibitions team covered every single print!
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visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/helen-mu…
To avoid unnecessary light exposure during the closure, our colleagues in the Exhibitions team covered every single print!
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visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/helen-mu…
Today our Conservation & Collections Care team @BodCons take over the Bodleian Twitter, FB & Insta!
Sharpen your shoe-knives and flex your bonefolders in anticipation of some sneaky peeks into the kind of things we get up to at work!
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Sharpen your shoe-knives and flex your bonefolders in anticipation of some sneaky peeks into the kind of things we get up to at work!
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The Library has officially employed conservators since 1965, although repairs & maintenance of books have taken place pretty much since the founding of the Library (more on this later…).
Our work ensures that our collections remain stable & accessible to readers.
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Our work ensures that our collections remain stable & accessible to readers.
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The Weston building refurbishment allowed us to redesign and fit out two beautiful studio spaces with all the equipment required to undertake conservation treatments, as well as to conduct scientific examination and research into our collections.
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