Back A Book The Pepys Library and the Historic Collections of Magdalene College have launched a new fundraising initiative to help conserve and repair our books and manuscripts: Back a Book. The initiative was launched at our ‘Friends of the Pepys Library’ event last July, and has had immediate success, with six of our items for 2018–2019 already having found support. Items which are still awaiting support are now on our dedicated Back a Book webpage, and the next group of items to support will be launched this summer. Back a Book will offer supporters the chance to see how their financial assistance can help conserve and repair individual items in our libraries, with the expert help of the Cambridge Colleges’ Conservation Consortium. The Consortium, a team of book and paper conservators who work exclusively for the Cambridge Colleges, are based at Corpus Christi and provide specialist conservation and preservation care for the wide variety of materials housed in Cambridge library and archive collections.
Friends to support Back a Book: it is open to all who have an interest in supporting the libraries’ work. The historic libraries at Magdalene College have aided scholarship and provided public enjoyment for centuries. Through careful monitoring and professional conservation of the books, manuscripts and prints in the Pepys Library and Old Library, we can ensure that these items are studied and exhibited for years to come. The Back a Book scheme will certainly help us towards achieving this aim. www.magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys/back-a-book
The Back a Book initiative has been inspired by the generosity of our Friends of the Pepys Library and Historic Collections, who have supported recent purchases for the libraries including the new oak storage units for the Old Library’s Ferrar papers and prints, and new curtains for the Pepys Library. However, you need not be part of the 3 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
