The David Pinniger Papers on Integrated Pest Management
In 2020, the Chantry Library was fortunate to receive a large donation of papers and articles on Integrated Pest Management from expert entomologist and IPM consultant David Pinniger. David Pinniger has worked as a research scientist for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) Pest Infestation Control Laboratory (later Central Science Laboratory) in Slough, the pest management strategy advisor for English Heritage, and an independent consultant providing specialist advice and training on pests in museums, archives and historic houses in the UK. David has also worked with overseas museums and delivered lectures and training workshops in many countries. He is the author of over 60 papers and publications, including the books Integrated Pest Management in Cultural Heritage and Pests in Houses Great and Small. Alongside Amy Crossman, David also co-wrote the sixth Chantry Library Subject Bibliography on Integrated Pest Management.
A full reference list of the David Pinniger papers is available for download below.
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IPC Conference Audiotapes
The Institute of Paper Conservation (IPC), prior to its merger with five other conservation bodies to form The Institute of Conservation (Icon), was the main professional body for book and paper conservators from 1976 to 2005. IPC had a large membership, an internationally respected peer reviewed journal (The Paper Conservator), and a small but important reference library (the Chantry Library) run by Judith Chantry, a graduate of the first Camberwell paper conservation course (1969) and the Ashmolean Museum’s first paper conservator.
IPC held numerous international conferences and several seminal ones, including the tenth anniversary Oxford conference (‘New Directions in Paper Conservation’, 1987) and the twenty-first anniversary London conference (1997). Conference preprints were produced for the Oxford conference and the papers were published in three successive issues of The Paper Conservator (vols. 10-12, 1986-1988). Conference postprints of the London conference were produced in 1998 by IPC.
Both conferences were taped and the master copy of the cassette tapes have been preserved in the Chantry Library. The tapes complement the published conference proceedings, in the unique voices of influential book and paper conservators, many of whom have retired or are sadly deceased. Unfortunately, due to the fragility of the tapes and lack of playback equipment, we are unable to play these recordings for readers.
Tape carrier and playback-technology obsolescence mean that this valuable resource is in danger of disappearing. Digitisation to a sustainable file-based environment will preserve this audio content for the future. The Chantry Library and Oxford Conservation Consortium are currently exploring ways to make this digitisation possible. If we are able to put funding in place for this project we hope to digitise and make the recordings available subject to copyright. The initial step of digital transfer will archive information that evidences the development and legacy of paper conservation in the UK – information that might otherwise be lost.
Watch this space for further news about this exciting project.