Being locked down presents the chance to get round to some interesting items on your "to do" list - in the Chantry Library that means cataloguing some of the more obscure titles that have come the Library's way over the years. This short blog post is about one such volume, originating in Zagreb. One reason... Continue Reading →
Welcome to 2020 - and still in a (slightly) festive mindframe our first blog of the year will celebrate a further donation of books from a great supporter of the Library, David Pinniger. A major contributer to the field of Integrated Pest Management, the Library already has a number of David Pinniger's books, as well... Continue Reading →
Many thanks to Dana Norris and Kenneth Watt, donating on behalf of the ICON Ceramics & Glass Working Group, for a copy of the September conference held in London Recent advance in class and ceramics conservation 2019. The conference was the Interim Meeting of the ICON-CC Glass & Ceramics Working Group and the ICON Ceramics... Continue Reading →
The Library has received by donation the newly published Treasures of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. This follows on from a very successful event in Blackwell Hall, the 'Sacred Scripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea Activity Day', at which three OCC conservators spent several happy hours as volunteers helping Sacred Scripts attendees to... Continue Reading →
The Chantry Library was recently very grateful to receive a generous donation from Nicola Gentle. This comprised conference proceedings and other matter, mainly on the conservation of textiles. As well as filling some gaps in our collection of conference proceedings (always fun for librarians to catalogue!) they also add depth to our coverage of this... Continue Reading →
