Thread by @bodleianlibs

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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#BodSocialTakeover

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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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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So although the library’s public spaces may be have been closed over the past month, our reading rooms have still been open to readers.

And we are still treating the library’s open shelf material and Special Collections in order to #keepOxfordreading!
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