For the first time, a medieval rag-paper based collection has been surveyed using the non-destructive analytical instrument developed in the project SurveNIR. The collection of the Classense library in Ravenna is extraordinarily significant, with more than 800,000 items, among which is a collection of works of Dante Alighieri. […]

At the Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana, a substantial research collection of historic paper is available to researchers through E-RIHS.si. The collection was assembled and fully characterised in the EU research project SurveNIR, coordinated by professor Matija Strlic. Through the use of a number of multivariate data visualisation and analysis tools, it was shown that acidity [...]

Researches from the National and University Library of Slovenia, the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the University of Ljubljana and the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana published the article titled »Nano calcium carbonate vs nano calcium hydroxide in alcohols as a deacidification medium for lignocellulosic paper«. Deacidification is still the dominant paper [...]