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When the Covid 19 restrictions prevented us from filming on campus, we got animated!
Back in early summer, UoA Collections received funding from the Scottish Book Trust to develop a series of filmed micro-tutorials with the award winning children’s author, Alex McCall as part of the annual Book Week Scotland festival that…
Introducing Safekeeping, an online exhibition curated by students on the University of Aberdeen’s Museum Studies MLitt.
There is a mystery, a sense of excitement walking into an exhibition space. Whether it is art or history, the cool room, low lights and pristine glass protecting what is behind it make…
The term gauffered edges is often seen in the catalogue descriptions of bindings in our collections. This is a lovely decorative feature of some books, where the edges of the text block are decorated like this:
The term is thought to come from the French gaufre, meaning to impress or iron; and that…
