The Dryad Collection – basket weaving
As I catalogue the Dryad Collection, I was surprised to see that the books on basket weaving not only included “How to” manuals, but also books that were concerned with the cultivation of the types of natural materials to use. Many of these books had the bookplate of H.H. Peach in them, who was a […]
Dryad Collection – S is for Smock and Sheepskin
As I continue to catalogue the Dryad Collection, some of the books stand out as belonging to a different era of attitudes towards clothes. Smocks for example, may still be around on the fashion catwalks today, but in the Dryad Collection a more traditional working role for the garment is recorded, as well as a […]
The Dryad Collection – The craft of Paper Work
My name is Corinne Lambert and I am a Metadata Specialist at the University of Leicester Library. I create and download bibliographic records for the library catalogue database using the Alma Library software system, these records are then made discoverable for readers through the Library’s online catalogue (‘Library Search’). I assign descriptive fields to the […]
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