AHRC Capability for Collections Fund - Stream A (Facilities)

本次投标将UCL的学术部门和专业服务团队聚集在一起，以使四个具有国家或全球意义的收藏品受益，这些收藏品用于教学，研究和与大学以外的社区的联系。UCL提供创新的，以研究为基础的教育，学生利用博物馆和收藏品的对象，以提高他们的学习。UCL在基于对象的学习中的先驱作用不仅建立在大学所拥有的优秀收藏品上，而且还建立在UCL的规模和多学科优势上，研究人员不断探索教学和学术实践。进一步利用这些主要资源的主要限制之一是缺乏合适的空间，以及藏品本身的老化存储设施。此次投标将为以下藏品的存储和可用性提供实质性改善：UCL人类学系的人种学藏品，皮特里埃及考古博物馆，斯莱德档案馆和UCL特别藏品。这些藏品中的每一个本身都是杰出的研究资源，但它们都嵌入并构成了伦敦大学学院更广泛的藏品基础设施的一部分，因此成功的应用将为更广泛地保护伦敦大学学院的藏品提供显着的好处，使它们更容易获得对于当前和未来几代研究人员来说。总结如下：- 为人类学创建一个新的扩大收藏空间将巩固建筑物中的收藏品，使其成为一个单一的适合用途的空间，并提高我们使用我们的收藏品进行基于对象的教学的能力，以及我们不仅与学生和研究人员合作，而且与来访艺术家合作的能力，扩大参与中学生和社区。- 当前的新型冠状病毒疫情凸显了数字化获取文化资产的重要性。为了支持这一点，我们正在请求升级我们的收藏管理系统（CMS）Adlib 7.5，以实现在CMS词库模块中使用外部生成和维护的词汇表。投标还要求提供支持，以满足改善我们一些空间的物质条件的迫切需要。在皮特里埃及考古博物馆，现成的存储单元将取代过时的世纪中期的案件和搁置，不适合的目的。这些单位所在的地板将被剥离和内衬，以确保它是水平的。斯莱德档案馆需要类似的翻新和更换架子，以提供保护标准的条件。- 对UCL Special Collections的请求将通过更换过时的移动的货架，在地下室空间建造一个专用的封闭式保护工作室，并翻新地下室门厅空间以提供单独的数字化空间，从而提供内部存储，保存和数字化材料的能力。DMS沃森的地下室空间包含这些材料中最稀有和最常用的材料，并提供安全和环境控制的存储。最后，Special Collections目前没有专门的教学或参与空间或学生团体工作空间（31%的用户是当前UCL学生），并且由于缺乏合适的对象处理空间，在提供课程或活动方面受到限制。对教育学院阅读室进行了翻修，以提供灵活的空间，供小组工作、教学、志愿者、学校和社区团体使用，这些设施的改善将使更多的学生能够接触到收藏品，亲身体验与文物打交道的经历，并支持长期保存这些文物，供今后在研究和推广中使用。

This bid draws together academic departments and professional services teams at UCL to benefit four collections of national or global significance, which are used in teaching, research and outreach to communities outside the university. UCL delivers innovative, research-based education, where students utilise objects from museum and collections to enhance their learning. UCL's pioneering role in object-based learning is founded not only on the outstanding collections held by the university, but also on UCL's scale and multi-disciplinary strengths, where research informs teaching and academics' practices are continually explored by researchers. One of the main limitations to enable further utilisation of these primary resources is lack of suitable space, and ageing storage facilities for the collections themselves.This bid will deliver substantial improvements for collection storage and usability for the following collections: UCL Ethnography Collections in the Department of Anthropology, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, the Slade Archive and UCL Special Collections. Each of these collections is an outstanding research resource in its own right, but these are embedded within and form part of UCL's wider collection infrastructure and as such a successful application would provide significant benefit in conserving UCL's collections more widely, making them more accessible for both current and future generations of researchers. To summarize: - The creation of a new enlarged collections space for Anthropology would consolidate collections in the building into a single fit-for-purpose space and increase our capacity for object-based teaching using our collections and our ability to work not just with students and researchers but with visiting artists, widening participation secondary school students, and communities. - The current Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the importance of digital access to cultural assets. To support this, we are requesting an upgrade to our Collections Management System (CMS) Adlib 7.5 to implement the use of externally produced and maintained vocabularies within the CMS thesaurus module.- The bid also requests support to address immediate needs to improve the physical condition of some of our spaces. In the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, off-the-shelf storage units will replace outdated mid-19th century cases and shelving that is not fit for purpose. The floor where these units sit will be stripped and lined to ensure it is level. The Slade Archive requires similar refurbishment and replacement of shelving to provide conservation-standard conditions. - The request for UCL Special Collections will provide capability to store, preserve and digitise materials in-house by replacing obsolete mobile racking, building a dedicated and contained Conservation Studio in the basement space and refurbishing the basement foyer space to provide a separate digitisation space. The basement space in DMS Watson contains the rarest and most heavily used of these materials and provides secure and environmentally-controlled storage. Finally, Special Collections currently has no dedicated teaching or engagement space or space for group student working (31% of users are current UCL students) and is limited in delivering classes or events due to lack of suitable object-handling space. The refurbishment of the Institute of Education reading room to provide flexible space that can be adapted for group work, teaching, volunteers, school and community groups.The improvements to these facilities would open up access to collections for greater numbers of taught students to experience working with artefacts first-hand and support the long-term conservation of these objects for future use in research and outreach.