Activities from the Conservation & Collection Care team at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Caring for our collections since 1602. #BodCons
📽️ Premier tonight! 🍿
Catch @bodleianlibs conservator Andrew Honey talking about the paper and pins(!!) used by Jane Austen in the manuscript of 'The Watsons'
🎬 YOUTUBE PREMIERE: ‘SPOTLIGHT ON THE WATSONS’.
Premiering on 28 November, this film examines Jane Austen’s earliest surviving manuscript, diving into her creative process.
With thanks to @bodleianlibs
📽️ https://t.co/CeJRSoDh7s
We hope to see you there 🍂 And this is your ONE chance to bring DRY leaves into the library with you, to contribute to a risograph collage (with permission of the Preventive Conservation team of course!) https://t.co/hbE7mlt8Pb
If you go down to the woods next week you’re in for a nice surprise! Join the @bodleianlibraries team on Saturday 9th November for ‘Reading in the Woods - a day of learning about wood in the library and the chance to hear from lots from team BodCons throughout the day
We’ll also be welcoming back artist @alicefoxartist to talk about some of her more botanical works and her piece that currently features in the ‘Book Marks’ display in Blackwell Hall 🖇️
For today’s #WhatIsItWednesday we’re back with Claire and her fabulous work rehousing the artefacts in the @bodleianlibraries John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Any guesses as to what she’s experimenting with here? https://t.co/6WNnux4nAL
An unexpected and sweet smelling part of the collection has required Claire to do a lot of thinking outside the box and work with objects and materials she never expected to be faced with when working in a library. For more see her article in @IIC_ News in Conservation, pp. 28-33
We are seeking papers dealing with digital manuscript studies for a series of sessions entitled ‘Digital Approaches to Materiality of Manuscripts’ at @IMC_Leeds 2025 (UK).
Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2024, 23:59 CST.