Introduction to Collection Care
The Collection Care team has specialist knowledge encompassing: books, paper, pith, parchment, leather, papyrus, photographic, and visual collections
The Collection Care team has specialist knowledge encompassing: books, paper, pith, parchment, leather, papyrus, photographic, and visual collections
Paper has had many uses… crucially it is the perfect material for writing, printing and making books
The famous writing material of Ancient Egypt, enduring and iconic
Wood is strong and easily shaped, allowing for the creation of practical and beautiful things, for books it creates the quintissential hardback
Leather is durable strong and flexible, also luxurious, tactile to hold
Favoured for its durability and soft, subtle tones, it is in manuscript culture that the use of parchment and vellum endures most significantly
Reader Services Assistant, Angela Petyt-Whittaker, reveals a most surprising find… Whilst working in The John Rylands Library for the pastContinue Reading
I’m delighted to announce the recent digitisation of two unique books from our 19th-century medical collections. Available online in fullContinue Reading