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The Clean Sweep – It’s the Final Countdown!

October 6, 2011 · 1 comment

in Collections,Conservation,Projects,Rare books

by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the final phase of the project, which will run to the end of 2011, and I thought that readers might be interested […]

Tagged as: Books, British Museum, Charles Mackay, Clean Sweep, Cleaning, Conservation, Dr. Jaspar Robert Joly, Geoffrey Gambado, Joly Collection, Nikki Ralston, Projects, R.D.S., Rare book team, Rare books, René Descartes, Royal Dublin Society, Tours, Trustees' Room, Watts Phillips

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The Clean Sweep

July 11, 2011 · 0 comments

in Collections,Conservation,Projects,Rare books

by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Regular visitors may have wondered about what’s been going on in our Trustees’ Room in recent weeks – that’s the room to the left of our main hall. Comings, goings and that funny noise… Well, from 2 to 4.30 this afternoon, and every weekday afternoon, you can see for yourself. Our […]

Tagged as: Books, Clean Sweep, Cleaning, Conservation, Nikki Ralston, Projects, Rare book team, Rare books, Trustees' Room

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