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Here is the final blog from placement student Holly, reflecting on how she developed her display. During the final weeks of my placement, I began to consider how I might use the material from the Metaphor collection to create an interesting and engaging display that would not only serve as a visual representation of my […]
Museum Studies Placement 2026 weeks 6-8
Here we have the final blog from Luna, reflecting on the last couple of weeks of the placement. As my placement draws to a close, my work has increasingly focused on preparing the exhibition for the Museum Studies 60th anniversary celebrations. This has given me the opportunity to think more deeply about how archival materials can […]
Museum Studies Placement 2026 weeks 3-5
Here Luna, who is a current student on the Museum Studies MA, reflects on some of the tasks she has done and things she has learnt on the placement so far. As my placement has progressed into weeks three to five, I have gradually become more familiar with the work and the collections. As I […]
Museum Studies Placement 2026 week 3
This week it is time to introduce Holly, who is also with us until September, as the practical element of the Museum Studies MA. My name is Holly Fletcher, and I am a currently completing my eight-week placement at the University of Leicester Archives and Special Collections, whilst concluding my journey towards a postgraduate degree in Museum Studies from […]
Museum Studies Placement 2026, Weeks 1-2
Archives and Special Collections are delighted to be hosting two placement students from Museums Studies this year, Yuan-Yuan (Luna) Wei and Holly Fletcher. They will each post a few blogs explaining what they are working on over the placement period, from 20 July – 11 September – Luna is going first! My name is Yuan-Yuan […]
World Digital Preservation Day 2025: Why Preserve?
To celebrate World Digital Preservation Day 2025, we are posting about the recent project to identify, take in and preserve material relating to the discovery and identification of Richard III. This work was completed by Assistant Digital Archivist Ruth Maguire. In August 2012, University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS), in collaboration with the Richard III […]
Jewel’s Museum Studies Placement blog 2
As I write this blog on 3 September 2024, I find myself in the final week of my placement. The experience of working in the Archives and Special Collections department at the University of Leicester over the past eight weeks has been incredibly rewarding for me personally. In this post, I would like to share […]
Jewel’s Museum Studies Placement 2024 blog 1
This is an introduction to the work that Yiqian Zhu (Jewel) started in July at the beginning of the Museum Studies course practical placement, with Archives and Special Collections. My name is Yiqian Zhu. I am an Art Museum and Gallery Studies student from the University of Leicester, and I am currently on an 8-week […]
World Digital Preservation Day 2023: making digital preservation greener
The theme for WPDP2023 (2 November) is Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort. This post is a write-up of an online talk to celebrate the day. It expands on the Library and Records Management’s wish to embed sustainable practices in their roles, explore efforts being made by the sector and examines how we can preserve files […]
Managing your own personal digital archive
In a second post related to World Digital Preservation Day, 3 November 2022, I thought I would share the tips that our University Records Manager, David Jenkins and I (Vicky Holmes, University Archivist) gave at some informal sessions run on 3 November about managing your own digital archive. We are all dealing with a deluge […]