Ligatus news

The International Institute of Book & paper Conservators has invited Professor Nicholas Pickwoad to talk about Book Boxes: A New Design in Stainless Steel during the symposium "Out of sight - Out of mind?"

The symposium, which is taking place in National Museum in Prague from 27-28 May will be dedicated to the broad theme of collection management of paper-related cultural heritage. Presentations should focus on issues such as storage, storage environment, enclosures, digitization, risk management and related subjects.

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/john-latham-anarchive

Digital Archivist – Shorter KTP Associate

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Ligatus Summer School 2010
(http://www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool)

The History of European Bookbinding 1450-1830

and

Identifying and recording Byzantine bookbinding structures for conservation and cataloguing.

Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel (Germany)
2-6 and 9-13 August 2010.

Opening reception: 6th January 2010, 6pm
The Incidental Person

1 object explored for 7 days, 24 hours a day, by a rolling team of researchers from the arts and sciences.

Object Retrieval is a project by artist Joshua Sofaer and is curated by Simon Gould in association with UCL Museums & Collections. The website for the project has been created by the Ligatus Research Unit. Object Retrieval has a simple premise - to uncover as much information as possible about one object from UCL’s Museums & Collections in the space of 7 days.

Professor Nicholas Pickwoad has been awarded the Royal Warrant Holder Association's 2009 Plowden Medal. The award has been made in recognition of his work in the study and conservation of historic libraries and rare books. The medal will be presented to him by HRH The Princess Royal and the Royal Warrant Holders Association Lunch in London on 2nd June 2009.

The Trustees of the John Latham Foundation announced the opening of Flat Time House (FTHo), the home of the late artist, to the public on 2 October 2008.

As of yesterday, 15 September, Antony Hudek is the new Research Fellow who has joined Ligatus to work on the John Latham Archive. Antony brings strong art historian and archiving experience to the project alongside excellent academic skills. He will be based in both the Flat-Time-House and the Ligatus office and his primary role will be to implement a classification system for the JLA documents based on John Latham's cosmological ideas.

READING BINDINGS
Bindings as evidence of the culture and business of books

A series of three lectures by Nicholas Pickwoad

This series of lectures looks at different aspects of bookbinding to show how bindings can be interpreted and how physical evidence can offer a key not only to the history of individual books and bookbinding workshops, but also to a wider understanding of the function and value of books.

At 18.15 in the Conference Centre, British Library, Euston Road.

Lecture 1
Wednesday 26 November 2008