Posts Tagged researchers

Quick poll: do your readers use gloves when accessing archives

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Anthea Brown

On the whole the preferred choice of glove is nitrile. I’m curious to know whether your readers have a ‘glove preference’ when accessing your archives? Or if readers are required to wear them?

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August 2009: Link roundup post

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Fiona Sullivan

This is a roundup of some interesting links that we’ve stumbled across over the last month or so. If you’re interested in Archives 2.0, Conservation, Archival Processing and Research tools click here.

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Useful Tips for Reading Handwritten Documents

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Fiona Sullivan

In these days of Web 2.0 and the use of high tech tools and databases which can answer research queries in an instant, the challenge presented by reading and interpreting handwritten archival documents often comes as a surprise to first time researchers.

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