Conservation

Cradles and Cases – bringing an exhibition loan back home

by Bean an Phoist on February 7, 2013 · 0 comments

by Audrey McGinley, NLI Conservation Intern At the start of my conservation internship I was involved with the return of a loan from the National Gallery of Ireland exhibition Jack of all Trades: Yeats’s Punch Cartoons and Illustrations by Irish Painters. This loan included 10 prints and drawings, and 6 bound volumes from our NLI [...]

Tagged as: Audrey McGinley, Cartoons, Conservation, Conservation Intern, Exhibitions, Jack B. Yeats, Jack of all Trades, Mylar, National Gallery of Ireland, Punch

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Time Capsule – The Innisfail sails again

by Bean an Phoist on December 6, 2012 · 1 comment

in Collections,Conservation

by Justin Furlong (Newspaper Librarian); Alexandra Nederlof (Student Conservation Intern from the University of Amsterdam) and Louise O’Connor (Conservator) In February 2012 we were contacted by Tim Lynch, Professor of Neurology at the Dublin Neurological Institute. Ten years ago, during renovations of the Institute’s building at No. 57 Eccles Street in Dublin, an issue of [...]

Tagged as: 1895, 19th century, 57 Eccles Street, 58 Eccles Street, Alexandra Nederlof, Cellulose, Conservation, Dry Surface Cleaning, Dublin Neurological Institute, Eccles Street, Eraser Powder, Heat-set Tissue, Hydroscopic, Innisfail, Japanese Paper, Justin Furlong, Louise O'Connor, Methyl-cellulose, Mould, Paper, Paper Press, Smoke Sponge, Soft Brush, Soft Eraser, Starch, Tim Lynch

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5.2 million reasons to do a stock check

by Bean an Phoist on October 5, 2012 · 1 comment

in Collections,Exhibitions,NLI Staff,Photographs,Projects

by Nora-Jane Thornton, National Photographic Archive When asked if I would like to relocate from our Manuscript Department to the National Photographic Archive in Meeting House Square in Temple Bar, I was excited by the prospect, and when I heard that the work would involve a thorough stock check of our photographic collections, I was [...]

Tagged as: Ambrotypes, Barbara Bonini, British Library, Cellulose Acetate Film, Colette O'Flaherty, Conservation, Daguerreotypes, Elizabeth Kirwan, Flickr Commons, Glass Negatives, Glynis Pickett, Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection, Joanna Finegan, John Joly, Joly Colour Process, Keith Murphy, Lantern Slides, Library Management System, LMS, Maria O'Shea, Matthew Cains, National Photographic Archive, Negatives, Nitrate Film, Nitrocellulose Film, Nora-Jane Thornton, NPA, O'Carroll Collection, Photographs, Preservation, Safety Film, Stock Check, Taking Stock, Tintypes, Vinegar Syndrome, Virtua