by Sholeen Sanker | Sep 18, 2014 | ETHER Conservation, Tips and Tricks
Week 30: Keep your hands clean! Rationale: Oils from skin can become embedded to the fabric and dust will collect on it. This will lead to a shorter life span on the object and expensive clean. To review the how list of the Tips and Tricks Click...
by Roger Layton | Sep 9, 2014 | ETHER Education, News, workshops
3 October 2014 Alan Paton Centre, Pietermaritzburg The ETHER Initiative has collaborated with Dr Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen of the Alan Paton Centre to bring to you an exciting workshops on Photograph and film preservation. This workshop, which is created...
by Sholeen Sanker | Aug 19, 2014 | ETHER Conservation, Tips and Tricks
Week 29: Use foam or book supports for larger books. Rationale: This will allow the support of the boards right up to the joint with the spine. The weight of the book is taken by the support wedges and not the spine and the joints. They also restrict how far the book...
by Roger Layton | Aug 15, 2014 | ETHER Education, News, workshops
New dates! Pretoria Archiving : 15 – 17 September Collection Storage Management : 18 September Project Management : 19 September Archiving: A workshop created and presented by Pétria Marais in collaboration with the ETHER Initiative. Book your place on...
by Sholeen Sanker | Aug 1, 2014 | ETHER Conservation, Tips and Tricks
Week 28: Beware the Red Rot Rationale: Red Rot is the result of a reaction between leather and airborne sulfuric acid, formed when sulfur dioxide combines in the atmosphere with oxygen and moisture. It will attack vegetable-tanned leather. The leather ultimately...
by Roger Layton | Jul 31, 2014 | digital heritage, digital institution, ETHER Digital
Guide and copyright essentials As digital collections become more and more important in the museum and heritage sector, we believe that all institutions should strive to become “Digital Institutions”. This means having access to digital resources, which includes...
