Will Beharrell’s time cataloguing the Chantry collection has sadly come to an end. Thanks for all your hard work, Will, and for adding 243 new records to the online catalogue SOLO!

 

This new-to-Chantry book by Edward Connold, author of British Vegetable Galls, and Gleanings from the Fields of Nature, has just been donated to the Chantry by Sandrine Decoux, Exhibitions Co-ordinator at the Bodleian Libraries. It is illustrated with 68 superb full-page plates, 21 insets, and 17 small drawings… of oak galls!

 

 

New to Chantry’s shelves, The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity, by Georgios Boudalis. The Oxford Conservation Consortium and Collection Care and Conservation section of the Bodleian Libraries recently spent a fascinating day on ‘Bookbinding and endbands of the Eastern Mediterranean’ with Dr Boudalis, with a small display of his publications from the library.

 

Today is the last day for our fantastic library volunteer, Cathrin Wieduwild. Cathrin took a break from her studies and has been in Oxford for the past two years. She is now returning to Germany to finish her MA in painting conservation. Cathrin has been involved in making sure the Chantry book collection has bookplates, bar codes, and is properly labelled – she leaves the library in tip top shape! Many thanks, Cathrin, and we hope your studies go well!

In 2004, the Institute of Paper Conservation rebranded itself, and changed its logo to include a letter ‘P’ unrolling like a length of paper. The Chantry Library, then housed in the Ashmolean Museum’s Paper Conservation Studio, was included in the rebranding.

 

 

Check out our new flyers! Fresh from the printers, they’re a handy guide that gives you the 1-2-3 of how to use the library.

Pick up a few if you’re passing by, share with friends and colleagues.

In 2000, Judith’s mother, Bobbie, presented to the Ashmolean Museum this illuminated page from the late-sixteenth/early-seventeenth-century work, The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence, by Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini, from her daughter’s estate. Judith worked as a paper conservator at the Ashmolean for 24 years.

http://www.jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/921/per_page/25/offset/25/sort_by/date/start/1600/end/1697/object/19676

 

 

The Chantry Library started out as the library of the Institute of Paper Conservation which had the much loved and sadly missed (amongst conservators of a certain age) cellulose molecule as its logo!

 

We’ve had a small donation of books on preservation planning and management in libraries, now catalogued and online.

Conservators of all disciplines will be happy to learn that David Pinniger has recently donated his extensive article/offprint collection to the Chantry Library. Most readers will be familiar with  Pinniger and Thompson-Webb’s interactive website ‘What’s Eating Your Collection’ and its extensive database of references on pest management, monitoring and trapping, treatment, strategy, and collections/environment. This reference collection is comprehensive and brings together many obscure publications, some anonymous, and others dating back to the beginnings of IPM. The donation includes a small collection of monographs not held by Chantry which have already been catalogued and are listed below. We hope to obtain funding to catalogue the article collection and in the near future we hope it will be possible to consult this fantastic collection of reference material.

List of Pinniger monographs now in the Chantry Library:

Åkerland, M. et al, eds.,  The 3^rd Nordic Symposium on Insect Pest Control in Museums, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, 1998.

Aranyanak, C. and C. Singhasiri, eds., Biodeterioration fo Cultural Property 3, Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Biodeterioration of Cultural Property, Bangkok, 1995.

Brokerhof, Agnes W., Control of Fungi and Insects in Objects and Collections of Cultural Value, 1989.

Caneva, Giulia et al, Biology in the Conservation of Works of Art, ICCROM, 1991.

Gallo, Fausta, Il Biodeterioramento di Libri e Documenti, ICCROM, 1992.

Kigawa, R., ed.,  Integrated pest Management in Asia for Meeting the Montreal Protocol, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, 1999.

Neher, A. and D. Rogers, eds., Pest Attack & Pest Control in Organic Materials, Postprints of UKIC Furniture Section, UKIC, 1996.