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Custom Enclosures: Corrugated Boxes

These images represent an extra large oversize book from our Rare Books and Special Collections department. An enclosure was made of corrugated cardboard, which is acid free and buffered, to protect it from environmental changes, dust, light exposure, and handling among other things. The book now lives in its own protective microclimate which reduces degradation of the cover and pages over time.

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Moving to Re-Usable Modular Cradles for Exhibits

Following her attendance at an AIC workshop, in May 2022, led by Alessandro Scola—Senior Book  Conservator at Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University—our former Gladys Brooks Conservation Fellow, Maren Rozumalski, conducted a cradle-making training session here at our lab, based on what she had learned about Mr. Scola’s system of fashioning modular and reusable cradles. She left us with an excellent set of instructions, templates, and tools afterward.

In the Fall of 2022, we built up a ‘fleet’ of bases of different sizes and display angles. For the recently mounted Hesburgh Libraries, Rare Books & Special Collections Spring 2023 exhibit on Irish Book Arts, we began using the new cradles for the first time. The cradles are made using lightweight and pliable PETG plastic. We have been pleasantly surprised by their overall sturdiness and the variety of book sizes and formats that they can support.

Not only will the reusable bases save us production time in preparing for future exhibits, having at least half of the structure already made each time we begin to construct a cradle will mean using less plastic for the one-time use custom pieces that will be necessary, which will have a positive impact on our budget and also the environment since there will be less plastic discarded per exhibit.

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Book review - Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border

I have written a book review of Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border by Ray Cashman, for the peer-reviewed academic journa...

This is a book review I wrote for the academic journal Irish Studies Review.

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https://www.acis2019.com/# https://undpress.nd.edu/ Discount valid through 15th of April 2019. #NotreDame #NotreDamePress #IrishStudies #Irish #IrishAmerican #UniversityOfNotreDame #AmericanConferenceOnIrishStudies #AmericanConferenceIrishStudies #NotreDameUniversity (at Peekskill, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwSRQ1TgCKx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8zwiuet5sl6l

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We did it!

After attending hours of lectures, exploring all around Ireland and the UK, and meeting individuals from around the world, today was our final meeting, during which we reflected on our favorite parts of the summer school and discussed different ways that we can reconnect with QUB in the future. Dually noted. 

(Photo credit goes out to the Irish Studies QUB Facebook page)