Archive for February, 2012

A song to remember: digitising Symphony Australia’s concert itineraries.

In late November 2011, the Digitisation and Photography branch embarked on a trial of the SMA Overhead Scanners that are used in our Document Supply section.  The intention was to test the use of these devices for capture of the Symphony Australia collection of concert touring schedules and artist itineraries, an archival collection documenting the [...]

No lumpy leather in this bindery

“Can you feel the lumps?” asks Robin. “Lumps?” I reply, “what lumps? my fingers are too numb!” I’ve been paring leather this week, and my fingers are numb from holding the leather and the knife and pushing down and pushing across, all at the same time. Paring leather is the action of making the leather [...]