AHRC Capability for Collections Fund - Stream A (Facilities)

这次竞标将伦敦大学学院的学术部门和专业服务团队聚集在一起，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、研究和向大学以外的社区推广。伦敦大学学院提供创新的，以研究为基础的教育，学生利用博物馆和收藏的物品来增强他们的学习。伦敦大学学院在基于对象的学习方面的先锋作用不仅建立在大学拥有的优秀藏品上，而且建立在伦敦大学学院的规模和多学科优势上，研究人员不断探索研究为教学提供信息，学者的实践也不断被研究人员探索。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，以及收藏本身的存储设施老化。此次招标将为以下藏品的存储和可用性提供实质性的改进：伦敦大学学院人类学系的人种学藏品、埃及考古的皮特里博物馆、斯莱德档案馆和伦敦大学学院特别藏品。这些藏品中的每一个都是一个杰出的研究资源，但它们都嵌入在伦敦大学学院更广泛的收藏基础设施中，并构成了其中的一部分，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著的好处，使它们更容易为当前和未来的研究人员所使用。总而言之：-为人类学创建一个新的扩大的收藏空间，将把建筑中的藏品整合成一个单一的适合用途的空间，并提高我们利用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，还与来访的艺术家、扩大参与的中学生和社区合作的能力。-当前的Covid-19大流行凸显了以数字方式获取文化资产的重要性。为了支持这一点，我们要求升级到我们的馆藏管理系统（CMS） Adlib 7.5，以实现在CMS同义词库模块中使用外部生成和维护的词汇表。-投标还要求支持，以解决改善我们的一些空间的物理条件的迫切需要。在皮特里埃及考古博物馆，现成的存储单元将取代过时的19世纪中期的箱子和不适合用途的架子。这些单元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货架，以提供保护标准的条件。伦敦大学学院特别收藏的要求将通过更换过时的移动货架，在地下室空间建立一个专用的保存工作室，并翻新地下室门厅空间，提供一个独立的数字化空间，从而提供内部存储、保存和数字化材料的能力。DMS Watson的地下室空间包含最稀有和最常用的这些材料，并提供安全和环保的存储空间。最后，Special Collections目前没有专门的教学或参与空间，也没有学生小组工作的空间（31%的用户是伦敦大学学院的学生），由于缺乏合适的对象处理空间，它在提供课程或活动方面受到限制。教育学院阅览室的翻新提供了灵活的空间，可以适应小组工作、教学、志愿者、学校和社区团体。这些设施的改进将为更多受教育的学生提供接触藏品的机会，让他们亲身体验与文物的接触，并支持这些物品的长期保存，以备将来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.