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... Continue Reading →