Head of Book Conservation at the Bodleian Library
Oct 29, 2020
3 minutes
Nicole Gilroy
“Recording what happens around us, in all its beauty and horror, is critical to being human”
WHAT DOES YOUR ROLE AS HEAD OF BOOK CONSERVATION ENTAIL?
I lead a team of seven bookbinders and conservators. Our purpose is to preserve, protect and make accessible the materials of the Library, a task which covers many types of work.
We repair modern books (by which we mean post-1850) on the open shelves and in the other
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