Emily, our Project Conservator, described her work on the HIV/AIDS collections, particularly the challenges of treating modern materials, and demonstrated her clever storage solutions for those awkwardly shaped collection items! To find out more please see past posts on our blog at http://www.lhsa.blogspot.co.uk/ and her new project webpages at http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/projects/UNESCOcollections.htm.
Emily (right) talks about her work, with Serena (left), CRC Student Engagement Officer, leading the tour
Emma, a Project Archivist working with Godfrey Thomson’s collections, teamed up with Susan, our Senior Photographer, to describe digitisation work and Thomson’s own research into child intelligence testing. Both Emma and Susan have blogs where you can find out more:
Emma talks about the Godfrey Thomson collection
Clare (Project Archivist), who is cataloguing papers relating to animal genetics, and Louise (LHSA Archivist, and former Project Archivist cataloguing neurosurgical case notes) showed our visitors into two spaces within the Centre for Research Collections - our viewing room and one of our stores - as well as key items in the collections.
Clare in the viewing room with some favourite collection items
Like Emma and Susan, they have blogged and posted information online about their work:
http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/towardsdolly/
http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/projects/Cataloguingcasenotes.htm
http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/projects/Cataloguingcasenotes.htm
Louise with surgical sketches created for Norman Dott
If this has whetted your appetite, we are running the tour again tomorrow (Saturday 12 April) morning. Tours are free but ticketed so if you’d like to book a place, please keyword search ‘behind the scenes’ on the Science Festival home page: http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/.
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