Reusing old material in new ways
One of the many opportunities presented by archival collections is the study and use of old documents for new research projects, none of which could have been foreseen at the time of a record’s creation. Hundreds of years later, these old documents continue to raise new questions and answers about past ways of living. Today’s images illustrate the different ways we reuse our collections as much as possible, both in their physical and digital form, in teaching, exhibitions and other research projects.
We recently reproduced John Speed’s map of Munster (1612) on the 20ft-long window of our training room at UL Library.
One recent research project at UL presents the perfect pairing of science and heritage, when titles from our Bolton Library collection were scanned in a 3D X-ray microscope, optimised for non-destructive micro tomography, in the Bernal Institute, to uncover hidden text and other manuscript waste used in the binding. Here are two images of the scans, with one on the ‘big screen’ in our Data Visualisation lab.
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UL Library has a range of technological suites available to students and faculty to aid in Digital Scholarship research, including the Data Visualisation lab, media production labs, loanable technology, 3D printing and a Makerspace.
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