From Narnia to Hogwarts

The majority of the Nancy Webb collection has finally made its way out of Narnia!!! (Narnia is an imaginary magical land - i.e. the CAB room which seemed to be an imaginary land to those of us on the print inventory project at the BPL)

After last weeks clean out of the CAB room we were able to get the 2 trashcans with lids containing prints into the print stacks and some of the larger framed prints into the Jordan room (or as I prefer to call it...the Room of Requirement)

The items that went into the Jordan room are going to have to be checked for condition issues; some of the framed prints are thought to have some growth developments underneath the glass...

 As more working space becomes available in Jordan, more things will be taken out of the CAB room to be examined. The only Nancy Webb items that will remain in the CAB room are the two boxes with a sculpture each in them-since they are not prints or drawings we will not be processing/inventorying these. 

An interesting fact that we did discover came from the lid of the trash cans. The shipping label placed on them by the fine arts transport/shipping company dated that they were shipped to the BPL May 2014; however, the actual "Nancy McIvor Webb Trust Bequest of Drawings and Prints" was not accepted by the library until May 17 2015, which is known by the public minutes of the Meeting of the Trustees Special Collections Committee. Interesting that the collection was in BPL's care for a year prior to actually accepting the bequest. 

We're continuing to inventory the items that have come out of the CAB room and into the print stacks and are going back and inventorying those items that we had previously processed. This week we will look into the items that were brought into the Jordan room and begin discussing what can be done with the prints in the trash cans, as they are rolled, have suffered water damage and are now quite stiff and will be difficult to unroll.