Twitter Memri poster obsessed with Helen Shenton being Librarian

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Helen Shenton
https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-shenton-771b9424

Head of Collection Care
The British Library
May 2002 - Feb 2010 · 7 yrs 10 mos

As a member of the senior leadership team, responsible for overseeing the care of 150M items of the national documentary heritage of the UK. Led the envisioning and development of the new British Library Centre for Conservation enabling first-time public access, engagement and training. Created stewardship strategy and life cycle approach to addressing the physical and virtual future of collections and content.

Deputy Director, Collections and Preservation
The British Library
1998 - 2002 · 4 yrs

Identified need for and established new area of digital preservation. Developed first assessment of the British Library collections and created priority-setting mechanism for allocation of preservation resources.

Assistant Head of Conservation
Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK
Apr 1984 - Apr 1998 · 14 yrs 1 mo

Series of roles with increasing levels of responsibility caring for one of the greatest collections of art and design. Worked on risk mitigation and conservation of major on-site and touring exhibitions and strategic methodology for assessing collections’ conditions. Co-created design for studios in Research and Conservation Centre.
 
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LIFE Team
http://www.life.ac.uk/team/bio_shenton.shtml

Helen Shenton
Head of Collection Care,
The British Library

Helen Shenton is the Head of Collection Care at the British Library.

Helen Shenton became the first Head of Collection Care at the British Library in 2002. This area encompasses Conservation, Preservation, Training and Research, Collection Storage and Security. She was involved with the early developments of digital object management at the BL, co-founded the first cross-Library Digital Preservation Team and led on the Life Cycle collection management strategic strand for the BL.

Helen read English Literature at University College London and trained at the London College of Printing and with the Arts and Crafts book conservator, Roger Powell. She joined the British Library in 1998 after 14 years in the Conservation Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum where she was responsible for the textiles, paper, paintings, photography and book disciplines.

Helen is a founding Board member of the Digital Preservation Coalition and Board member of the National Preservation Office, also chairing the NPO's Preservation Administrator's Panel. She sits on a number of national and international groups, such as IFLA's Preservation and Conservation Committee, LIBER's Preservation Division, Lambeth Palace Library and UCL's Centre for Sustainable Heritage's Academic Advisory Committee.

Helen has taught and examined Masters degree courses in Conservation and Preservation, at the University of the Arts, the Royal College of Art and School of Library and Archive Studies at UCL. She has edited journals, lectured and published widely in areas such as digital preservation, national preservation strategies and developments in stewardship.

Helen is a Fellow of the International Institute of Conservation and the Royal Society of Arts.
 
Steven Avery

Steven Avery

Administrator
Virtual Reunification, Virtual Preservation and Enhanced Conservation
Helen Shenton

Helen Shenton became the first Head of Collection Care at the British Library in 2002. She has been a member of the Codex Sinaiticus Project Board since its creation seven years ago and has chaired its Conservation Working Group. She sits on a number of national and international groups, such as IFLA Preservation and Conservation Committee and the UK's National Heritage Science Steering Group. She is a founding member of the Digital Preservation Coalition and has chaired the Preservation Division of LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries. Helen read English Literature at University College London and trained at the University of the Arts. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the International Institute of Conservation. She joined the British Library in 1998 after 14 years in the Conservation Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Academia.edu
https://independent.academia.edu/HelenShenton

ResearchGate
 
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PBF and YouTube

"the parchment ... is in phenomenally good condition" - Helen Shenton
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...henomenally-good-condition-helen-shenton.272/

three 'insider' quotes about Sinaiticus - Helen Shenton, Sara Mazzarino, Elisabeth Fritsch-Hartung
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...ara-mazzarino-elisabeth-fritsch-hartung.1430/

Twitter Memri poster obsessed with Helen Shenton being Librarian
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...ssed-with-helen-shenton-being-librarian.2978/

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A BBC article on the the Codex Sinaiticus. - 4:00 YouTube - Helen Shenton - "phenomenally good condition" 3:38 ( The Rival to the Bible - Roger bolton ) Juan Garces - Scot McKendrick
3:35 - Helen Shenton
https://youtu.be/wm4QhzhsYEo?t=219
Beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm4QhzhsYEo

Helen Shenton states,
"One of the things that we found is that the parchment, which is 1600 years old, is in phenomenally good condition. It's very very, very fine parchment. The animal husbandry that there must have been in order to produce such parchment is incredible, absolutely incredible".

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The world's oldest bible reunited online -
Helen Shenton at 3:15-4:35
https://youtu.be/fd_x1yuIrZ8?t=195

A third video with easy-peasy page turning

Scot McKendrick 2:45 -
but the challenge was you have four parts of the same manuscripts in four different locations, how do you ensure that in imaging theres four parts. You don't make them look the same, because they have their own history and undoubetly have started to look different, but how can you ensure that you capture the image, or images, of parts of those manuscripts in the same way."


 
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Conservation of the Codex Sinaiticus Seminar

Codex Sinaiticus Seminar
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Conservation of the Codex Sinaiticus Seminar​


8 July 2009, British Library Centre for Conservation
Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth-century manuscript of the Christian Bible, containing the earliest complete copy of the New Testament. The seminar presented the conservation work done on the Codex Sinaiticus by the four partner institutions: British Library, National Library of Russia, St Catherine’s Monastery and Leipzig University Library.

Conference Presentations​

All presentations are in pdf format
> Helen Shenton, Head of Collection Care, British Library: Welcome and overview of the Codex Sinaiticus Project
> Juan Garcés, Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project Manager, British Library: Codex Sinaiticus and the future of conservation data
> Gavin Moorhead, Conservator, British Library: Overview of the conservation documentation and parchment features of the Codex Sinaiticus
> Sara Mazzarino, Conservator, British Library: Condition of inks
> Flavio Marzo, Conservator, British Library: Conservation treatments
> Dr Barry Knight, Head of Conservation Research, British Library: Multispectral imaging
> Rene Larsen, Rector, School of Conservation, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts: Identification of animal source and specific deterioration phenomena
> Professor Nicholas Pickwoad, University of the Arts London: Conservation of the leaves and fragments at St Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
> Ute Feller and Sophie Manns, Leipzig University Library: Conservation of the leaves at Leipzig University Library

> The full summary from the seminar can be viewed here.
> The programme from the seminar can be viewed here.

For a full press release on these events, visit the British Library’s Press Room.

Video below: Helen Shenton, Head of Collection Care, talks about the conservation of the Codex Sinaiticus


For more details visit the Codex Sinaiticus Conservation webpage

For more information, please contact:
Kissley Leonor
Administrative Support
Email: kissley.leonor@bl.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7714		Alison Faraday
BLCC Training Coordinator
Email: alison.faraday@bl.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7776








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