LAST CALL for applications for our Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop! The deadline to #apply is TOMORROW 21 February at 12 noon UK time. All details here: https://t.co/oWPyLMnA6w. #ManuscriptStudies #Hebrew #Workshop #ApplyToday #JewishStudies

Herculaneum: First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years. https://t.co/4H5QBltrpN

📽️ Premier tonight! 🍿 Catch @bodleianlibs conservator Andrew Honey talking about the paper and pins(!!) used by Jane Austen in the manuscript of 'The Watsons'

We hope to see you there 🍂 And this is your ONE chance to bring DRY leaves into the library with you, to contribute to a risograph collage (with permission of the Preventive Conservation team of course!)

We’ll also be welcoming back artist @alicefoxartist to talk about some of her more botanical works and her piece that currently features in the ‘Book Marks’ display in Blackwell Hall 🖇️

If you go down to the woods next week you’re in for a nice surprise! Join the @bodleianlibraries team on Saturday 9th November for ‘Reading in the Woods - a day of learning about wood in the library and the chance to hear from lots from team BodCons throughout the day

https://t.co/6WNnux4nAL

An unexpected and sweet smelling part of the collection has required Claire to do a lot of thinking outside the box and work with objects and materials she never expected to be faced with when working in a library. For more see her article in @IIC_ News in Conservation, pp. 28-33

For today’s #WhatIsItWednesday we’re back with Claire and her fabulous work rehousing the artefacts in the @bodleianlibraries John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Any guesses as to what she’s experimenting with here? https://t.co/6WNnux4nAL

I'm glad you like our stains and paperclips! 🖇️

We are seeking papers dealing with digital manuscript studies for a series of sessions entitled ‘Digital Approaches to Materiality of Manuscripts’ at @IMC_Leeds 2025 (UK).  Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2024, 23:59 CST.

We've had a great two days at the #icon24 conference & have a lot to think & talk about with the team back in Oxford 💭 Hot topics included many forms of community engagement, sustainability & where the field could/should go next! Thank you Icon & all the incredible speakers 💚

Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a new publishing partnership with the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, to publish The Bodleian Library Record beginning in October 2024. Find out more: https://t.co/Lu7b8JZcjV @bodleianlibs @BodPublishing @UniofOxford

The closing date is 1st July! Full details here: https://t.co/9BpzuIZPLA Please do share 🤓 @Conservators_UK @IconBook_Paper @Icon_Textiles @IconEPN #ConservationGraduate @bodleianlibs

Our past fellows have worked on many projects, ranging from delicate paper repairs and stabilising leather bindings, to rehousing objects from our ephemera collection and surveying our embroidered and textile bindings 📚🪡🖌️

Calling all recent and soon-to-be conservation graduates 📢 Could you be the next BodCons T.A. Barron Fellow? You have ONE WEEK LEFT to apply for this fab 9 month full time opportunity to work with the collections of one of the oldest libraries in the world 🎉

The Ligatus website is likely to go offline in July for a short period of time while we are working towards transferring it to a new hosting institution. More information on temporary access to the Language of Bindings thesaurus will follow.

🚨New Job Alert 🚨 Would you like to be the next T. A. Barron Fellow? We are recruiting a conservator for the fellowship programme now! Find out more here:

And here are some of our finished samples ready to be added to our growing #PigmentLibrary in the studio. These beautiful watercolours were made from three different cochineal lake pigments 🖌️