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The British Library’s GBP 33m Newspaper Programme, which is now nearing completion, was established to address a range of legacy issues associated with ensuring the long term storage, preservation and access to the UK’s national newspaper collection, one of the largest and most comprehensive newspaper collections anywhere in the world with more than 750 million pages of newspapers spanning more than three centuries. The programme has delivered a purpose-built state-of-the-art storage facility, with a fully automated retrieval system and full temperature and humidity control, that will enable the British Library’s print newspaper collections to be kept in archival standard conditions for the first time ever. A new service proposition – the Newsroom – has been created at St Pancras which will, through a combination of collecting and connecting and by combining traditional print and microfilm newspaper content with television and radio broadcast news recordings and with web news into an integrated offering, transform the traditional newspaper reading room concept into a hub for news and media. Increased digitization will both enable online access and protect the original newsprint from further wear and tear. The paper reports on a number of innovative solutions which have been adopted in taking the Newspaper Programme forward – in particular in relation to digitization funding models, storage solutions, onsite service provision, and accessibility – and as such it provides a case study in national library innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The production of millions of artificially mummified animals by the ancient Egyptians is an extraordinary expression of religious piety. Millions of creatures of numerous species were preserved, wrapped in linen and deposited as votive offerings; a means by which the Egyptians communicated with their gods. The treatment of animals in this manner resulted in a wealth of material culture; the excavation and distribution of which formed a widely dispersed collection of artefacts in museum and private collections around the world. Due to ad hoc collection methods and the poorly recorded distribution of animal mummies, many artefacts have unknown or uncertain provenance. Researchers at the University of Manchester identified a group of eight mummies positively attributed to the 1913–1914 excavation season at Abydos, now held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. This paper presents the investigation of this discreet group of provenanced mummies through stylistic evaluation of the exterior, and the assessment of the contents and construction techniques employed using clinical radiography. Dating of one mummy places the artefact—and likely that of the whole assemblage—within the Late Period (c.664–332BC). Considering these data enables the mummies to be interpreted as the Egyptians intended; as votive artefacts produced within the sacred landscape at Abydos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines genetic diversity and structure of a Croatian garlic germplasm collection using 13 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. A total of 71 alleles were observed across 64 accessions representing 3 Croatian regions (Istria, Dalmatia and continental Croatia) and 16 foreign landraces, with an average of 5.46 alleles per locus. Among the 80 accessions analysed, 61 distinct multilocus genotypes (MLG) were identified, of which 51 represented unique genotypes and the remaining accessions were divided into 10 MLG groups, comprising potential duplicates or redundant genotypes. Model-based Bayesian and hierarchical UPGMA clustering approaches revealed five major groups within the collection which partially correlated with geographical origin. The analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) showed that the majority (87.71%) of the total molecular diversity is within the Croatian groups of accessions, even though a significant share (12.29%) of diversity derived from genetic diversity among groups. These results support regional structuring, as well as the existence of significant diversity within local populations. This study is the first comprehensive report on an extensive evaluation of genetic resources of garlic maintained by Croatia with the aim of setting the course for future preservation strategies with particular emphasis on the value of diversity in the context of climate change both on macro and micro levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many collections in the UK include some radioactive objects, which must be managed in accordance with the Environmental Permitting Regulations and the Ionising Radiation Regulations. These laws are complex and cover a wide range of industries so it can be difficult to work out how they apply to museums in practice. Museums in the UK also have to consider how to integrate their legal obligations for working with radiation with accepted museum ethical guidelines, SPECTRUM 5.0 and the Accreditation Standard. This paper aims to illustrate how radioactive objects can be practically managed in a small museum context through examples from the Polar Museum in Cambridge, where the Radiation Protection team and the conservator have worked closely since 2009 to develop robust procedures. It covers many collections based activities including display, storage and conservation, and discusses these in the context of recent updates to UK law. A risk assessment template for working with radioactive collections is included as an Appendix.

Contemporary approaches to the documentation of museum collections presuppose its consideration as an integral aspect of the broader term "collection management", in which the emphasis is on various museum activities, i.e. on the management aspects in the formulation of the policy and use of resources. In the context of adoption of modern forms of communication between the museum and the audience, which implies openness to the demands of visitors/users and imperative of unity and exchange of information not only at national but also at international level, particular attention was paid to reconsideration of all aspects of the notion of documentation. It is recognized as the vital tool that should provide the basis for research of collections, not only in terms of their origin, but particularly in terms of their context and meaning in the universal sense. Since the virtual access to collections and information about them has become the most important aspect in the development of management and use of museum resources, contemporary researches based on information technologies focus to a significant extent on the development of standards for the processing of digitized museum materials, i.e. on providing uniform content for the purpose of exchanging information among museum institutions. Special attention is also paid to consideration of the opportunities of co-operation between the so-called "memory institutions" (museums, libraries and archives), driven by the feasible possibility of integration of cultural heritage in the information environment. Requests for critical consideration of access to cultural heritage offered by information technology have posed the question of the mediating role of institutions in the processes of exchanging knowledge and in searching, shaping and transmission of cultural identity of the community in which they operate. In this sense, as a necessary condition for the fulfillment of broader social role of museum institutions, the adoption of theoretical settings and technique of the concept of "knowledge management" in terms of documentation is suggested. It is not bound to the change of the core purpose of museum nor to the question of its role as an intermediary and intepretator in the process of formation of knowledge, but it marks a shift in the orientation of museums -- from object to user, and a substantial change in the way they communicate with the audience, assuming the flexibility regarding the sources of information outside their own environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]