ALCTS e-Forum on Web 2.0 Tools
We are participating in an ALCTS e-forum today called “Using Web 2.0 Tools to Enhance Technical Services Work.” The question is “how can you solve problems within technical services using Web 2.0...
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Ethiopic Manuscript Digitization Project
As you may know we have been working with the Digital Production Center to digitize the scrolls in the Ethiopic Manuscript collection. I’ve posted some images from that project, not the high-resolution...
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Here’s Your Mule
It’s Manuscript Day in the lab, similar to Boxing Day, wherein we all work on flat paper repair. Today we are continuing the Broadside Project, getting these items ready for their close up in the...
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Burnt and Bent
Today Alex and I worked together to image some pages from this Syriac Manuscript. According to a hand-written note in the box, it is from the Gospel of Mark, dated to the 10th Century. Clearly it’s...
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Where Art and Libraries Meet
I had the good fortune to again be called upon to help the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University install some books for their new exhibit “The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York,...
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Happy Anniversary Devil’s Tale!
Today, October 8th, marks the one year anniversary of the launch of The Devil’s Tale, our sister blog from the Rare Books, Manuscript and Special Collections Library (and University Archives!). To...
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Care and Handling Training
Pop quiz: What is the best method of removing a book from the shelf? This week we are presenting our annual week-long Care and Handling/Identifying Common Damage demonstrations. Each year we present...
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Learning On The Job
Recently Alex from the Digital Production Center came by to ask if I could fix a cassette tape. The tape broke while they were digitizing it, and they just needed it to hold together long enough to...
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Quick Pic: This Week In Conservation (we’re on Instagram!)
This week Duke Libraries joined Instagram! We will be posting along with our colleagues from across departments to show you the inner (and outer) workings of the library. Our pics will be linked to the...
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What’s In The Lab: Long Civil Rights Digitization Project
Written by Erin Hammeke, Senior Conservator The Content, Context and Capacity Project (CCC) was a multi-year collaborative digitization project of archival collections that documented the civil rights...
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Welcome to Our New Intern: Garrette Lewis-Thomas
Our new intern, Garrette Lewis-Thomas, has arrived and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Garrette is our second HBCU Library Alliance conservation intern. Like last year, she will spend eight weeks with us...
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Welcome to Our New Intern Angela Nettles
We are delighted to welcome our fifth HBCU Library Alliance intern, Angela Nettles, to Duke Libraries. Angela is a rising senior at Bennett College where she is studying Africana Women’s Studies. She...
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