Collection: Module E (complete) 988 items Module F (ongoing) 2920 items

Authors: Various 

Contents: Module E consisted of correspondence between the East India Company and various Boards, Presidencies and governments and showed the Company’s rising interest for more territorial power over trade.

 

The AMD project is an ongoing digitisation project started in 2014 that looks into the East India Company’s history through a large collection from the British Library.

It is separated into several classes or Modules, and are exclusively taken from the India Office Records collection, accessible to the public.

The India Office Records at the British Library are the repository of the archives of the East India Company (1600-1858), the Board of Control or Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India (1784-1858), the India Office (1858-1947), the Burma Office (1937-1948), and a number of related British agencies overseas.

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This digitisation project will help to enable a better and easier access to the collection as well as enable research purposes.

I arrived during the second part of the Module E, which we effectively completed in October 2021.

The current module, Module F, is divided into 6 parts and the condition of the collection varies wildly throughout. The module is still ongoing.​

 

• Doing conservation treatment on Module E and F items, from dry cleaning, tear repairs, mould cleaning, separation of pages glued together, support for oversized fold-outs, etc

• Liaise with the scanning team and the AMD team. Liaise with the Library assistants from the Asian and African Collections, Manuscripts and Basement. Regular meetings with the Digitisation Manager

• Communicating with the scanning team and providing advices, as well as helping to set up fragile items and ensure safe handling practices Providing new members of the scanning team handling training

• Keeping guidelines up to date and creating new guidelines when needed

• Training the new conservator working on Module F

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