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RBSCG Annual Study Conference : The Library as Classroom

RBSCG Annual Study Conference : The Library as Classroom The RBSCG Annual Study Conference will be held at Downing College, the University of Cambridge, from 5th-7th September 2018. Delegates are invited to hear speakers from across the country discuss using special collections for teaching across all library environments.   Confirmed speakers include Dr Jessica Gardner (University of Cambridge), Siobhan Britton (University of Brighton), Sarah Mahurter (University of the Arts London), Dr Tabitha Tuckett (University College London), Sally Stafford (University of Cambridge), Professor Simon Eliot (London Rare Book School), Dr Niveen Kassem (Newcastle University), Jason Scott-Warren and Andrew Zurcher (Centre for Material...

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JORNADA “O TRÁFICO ILÍCITO DO PATRIMÔNIO BIBLIOGRÁFICO NA AMÉRICA LATINA E CARIBE” – 28 de noviembre de 2018

JORNADA “O TRÁFICO ILÍCITO DO PATRIMÔNIO BIBLIOGRÁFICO NA AMÉRICA LATINA E CARIBE” Organiza: Fundación Biblioteca Nacional del Brasil & IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section Está abierta la convocatoria de trabajos a ser presentados durante la II Jornada IFLA El tráfico ilícito del patrimonio bibliográfico en América Latina y el Caribe a realizarse el 28 de noviembre de 2018, en la Biblioteca Nacional del Brasil – Auditorio Machado de Assis – en la ciudad de Río de Janeiro. De acuerdo con IFLA Cultural Heritage Programme Advisory Committee, el patrimonio cultural consiste en bienes tangibles e intangibles, naturales y culturales,...

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Survey on rare materials cataloguing with RDA

In the last years an increasing number of libraries are adopting RDA as a cataloguing standard. Still, what happens to their rare materials? Is RDA fit for the description of their rare books, their manuscripts, their graphic and cartographic materials, their music? Will it be able to overtake extremely detailed rules such as DCRM or ISBD? Probably not by itself, although the RSC, aware of the complexity of the situation, already has a Rare Materials Working Group managing some of the points where RDA collides with the needs of the description of rare materials. But it could very well accomplish...

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Programme now available for IFLA RBSCS Mid-term conference!

The programme for the IFLA Rare Books & Special Collections section mid-term conference has now been published! You can view it below or download it here.   Libraries in the sky large-scale collaboration strategies and infrastructures to enhance the use of digital heritage collections National Library of Norway (Oslo), 12 April 2018 09:00: Coffee, welcome and opening: Hege Stensrud Høsøien, National Library of Norway Helen Vincent, Chair of IFLA RBSC section 09:30-10:30 Digital Discovery of Cultural Heritage Treasures V. Zupan: Legacy Treasure of the “Svetozar Markovic” university library in Belgrade: Experience from a Digital Environment P. Granholm: Manuscripta – a...

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Call for Papers: Libraries in the sky: large-scale collaboration strategies and infrastructures to enhance the use of digital heritage collections

  Libraries in the sky: large-scale collaboration strategies and infrastructures to enhance the use of digital heritage collections IFLA RBSCS mid-term conference, National Library of Norway (Oslo) April 12th 2018 In many countries, libraries have worked together to enhance the visibility of their national heritage through a national digital library. In Europe, Europeana is the continental digital library, and humanity as a whole has a World Digital Library to discover its most precious treasures. Now the time has come to reinforce and expand these collaborative initiatives over the cloud, to foster new research opportunities and include born digital documents as...

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The Société bibliographique de France: A new organisation for promoting the history of the book in the French world

Over the past few decades book history has been something of an outsider in the French intellectual world. Whilst in Anglophone countries the discipline thrived, in France the subject was increasingly marginalised. Elsewhere in academia, numerous student programs, research centres and well-funded projects have been founded and developed into being a well-respected part of the university landscape. Well-established groups such as the Bibliographical Society in London, or IFLA itself, along with large international organisations like SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) have steadily grown in stature. Libraries have also recognised the interest in their rare books...

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Towards the new RDA Toolkit: RSC meeting in Madrid

The RDA Steering Committee convened last week in Madrid, at the National Library of Spain, in the context of its 3R Project (RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign Project). Along with the closed business meetings, the institution hosted two open sessions. In the first, “Towards the new RDA Toolkit”, RSC members explained the recent restructure of the tool and discussed topics of interest such as serials, aggregates, the development of attributes as relations and types of description. The new Toolkit will be a much more helpful tool for the cataloguer, as it allows each institution to display its policy statements together...

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Call for Papers: William Birch and the Complexities of American Visual Culture: A Symposium Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Visual Culture Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia

Call for Papers: William Birch and the Complexities of American Visual Culture: A Symposium Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Visual Culture Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., October 5, 2018 “This country is new and flourishing. The mechanical arts are at their highest pitch, but the fine arts are of another complexion. They are the last polish of a refined nation… From an insignificant conceit of merit we have generally no knowledge of or feeling for, our imitations of nature, however beautiful, are mechanical altogether. But [these limitations] may be considered as...

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Report from the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group annual conference, 2017

The Rare Books and Special Collections Group Conference 2017, hosted at the picturesque University of Sussex, had ‘Collections at Risk’ as its theme. Over the course of the three-day conference we heard talks from people working in a variety of roles who approach rare books and special collections from very different angles but who all had one thing in common: a desire to ensure the long-term survival of heritage items. It was interesting to hear the perspectives of librarians whose interest in preserving collections is clear, but also from people working in the book-trade who have a genuine desire to...

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WLIC 2017- Managing Digital Estates: Challenges for the National & University Library Strasbourg – Frédéric Blin

On July 5th, 2017, during the annual conference of LIBER, the European League of European Libraries, the Consortium for European Libraries (CERL) and the LIBER Digital Cultural Heritage Forum organised a workshop entitled: “Managing bequests & Digital Estates: New Challenges for Libraries”. Frédéric Blin, Director for Heritage Collections and Preservation at the National and University Library Strasbourg (France), who co-organised this event, presented the results of the workshop during the last session of the Rare Books and Special Collections section at the WLIC in Wroclaw on August 23rd. His paper is available on the IFLA Library: http://library.ifla.org/1805/1/210-blin-en.pdf. All présentations are...

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La librería secreta de Luis de Usoz (1805-1865): últimos días

En el año 1873, durante la Primera República Española, María Sandalia del Acebal y Arratia donaba a la Biblioteca Nacional la que había sido la biblioteca de su marido, Luis de Usoz y Río, y con ella la mayor colección de obras relativas a reformistas y heterodoxos españoles que se conserva en España. Luis de Usoz, filólogo, erudito, editor y bibliófilo, reunió hasta su muerte obras no solamente de contenido religioso (algunas de las cuales seguían estando prohibidas en España), sino también de índole filológica. Con la ayuda del hispanista inglés Benjamin Wiffen, que actuó como su agente en Europa,...

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IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section events at WLIC 2017

The Rare Books and Special Collections Section invites you to join our programme of events during the Congress. Full details of each session are posted on the Congress website but this post gives a short summary. Get involved! If you are interested in the Rare Books and Special Collections section, and in the issues involved in working with rare books and special collections of any kind, please come and speak to us at the Congress. You are invited to attend our off-site day on the Monday and our on-site programme session and the sessions we have been involved with, to...

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Call for Papers: Data Stewardship and Data Curation – LIBER

Data Stewardship and Data Curation 4th Digital Curation Workshop – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, 13-14 November 2017 Call for Papers – deadline 11 August 2017 This theme is on the agenda of both libraries and research teams and a focus area in LIBER’s new Strategic Plan. It covers a broad variety of aspects. For this workshop three themes have been identified to compare and evaluate experiences in this emerging and rapidly evolving field in order to distill best practices, guidelines and identify areas of future concern We are planning to organise three sessions that each combine a paper introducing the...

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“Collections and Books [A]cross Borders” – all day off-site session at WLIC 2017 (Wroclaw, Poland)

You are invited to attend a special all-day session (Session 088) at the forthcoming IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2017: “Collections and Books [A]cross Borders”   The session is open to all (no conference fee).  Due to limited space, please register by 15 August 2017 here: https://iflarbscs.konfeo.com   Date and Time:  Monday, 21 August 2017 / 8.30-17.15 Venue:  Wroclaw University Library (Biblioteka Uniwersytecka we Wrocławiu) Address:  ul. F. Joliot-Curie 12, 50-383 Wrocław, Poland (see map below)   This all-day session explores historical and current practices for managing and providing access to collections that have crossed borders using case studies from...

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Jornada “El patrimonio bibliográfico en América Latina y el Caribe: desafíos y perspectivas” (27 & 28 de septiembre, Buenos Aires)

     Jornada “El patrimonio bibliográfico en América Latina y el Caribe: desafíos y perspectivas” 27 y 28 de septiembre de 2017, Buenos Aires – Argentina Organiza Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno – IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section  La Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno de la República  Argentina e IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section  invitan a presentar propuestas de trabajos para la Jornada El patrimonio bibliográfico en América Latina y el Caribe: desafíos y perspectivas. La Jornada busca contribuir a una discusión más profunda y a un debate sobre el patrimonio bibliográfico de las bibliotecas de la región. Es...

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CALL FOR EXAMPLES – YOUR EXPERIENCE NEEDED AT THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION (WIPO)

With the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights’ (SCCR) thirty-fourth session at World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) approaching, we would be very grateful if we could draw on the Rare Books and Special Collections Section’s experience in order to strengthen our arguments. We need, as ever, to maintain the pressure for an international instrument which will not only keep up the pressure for copyright reform nationally, but will also allow libraries to operate internationally. The more we can present national delegates with evidence from their own countries, the more likely we are to convince them.  IFLA’s work at WIPO...

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2017 RBMS Conference: The Stories We Tell

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2017 RBMS Conference taking place this June in Iowa City, IA. Scholarships are also available, with an application deadline of March 31. The Stories We Tell focuses on storytelling as practice and metaphor in the mission and daily work of special collections. From writing traditional scholarly monographs to encoding digital humanities landscapes, from building deep and inclusive collections to designing new curricula, the ability to craft a compelling narrative is at the heart of cultural heritage work. Donors honor us with the stories of their lives and passions....

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WLIC 2017 Call for Papers

The IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section invites proposals for papers for an open 2-hour session and a special all-day session co-sponsored by the Indigenous Matters Section at the 83rd IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Wrocław, Poland, 19-25 August 2017. Themes: “Out of the Stacks: Special Collections In Society” What happens when special collections are taken out of their library home, either virtually or physically, and used by the library or by others beyond the traditional ways in which libraries have interpreted these collections for audiences who come into their buildings. Today’s exhibitions may be accompanied by a programme...

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Call for Papers: The Information Landscape in Scotland: 1600-1900

Call for Papers: The Information Landscape in Scotland: 1600-1900 Saturday 1 July 2017, University of Dundee CILIP’s Library and Information History Group is delighted to announce that its 2017 conference will be held at the University of Dundee on Saturday 1 July 2017. Librarians, researchers and academics are invited to submit proposals for full papers (45 minutes) or lightning talks (10 minutes) on the following themes: – Public access to information in Scotland within the defined period. – The publishing, distribution and reception of non-fiction and newspapers/periodicals. – Knowledge institutions including (but not limited to) libraries, universities and intellectual societies....

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RBSC seeking members for Standing Committee

The Rare Books and Special Collections Section invites you to serve on our standing committee! We are especially looking for members from Central and South America, Asia, Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa, to complement our existing membership. IFLA has expectations of all standing committee members, who serve up to two four-year terms. In particular you are expected to make the effort to attend Standing Committee meetings, which take place at Congresses; the Section also has virtual or real mid-term meetings, and otherwise contribute to the work of the section, primarily conducted by email between congresses. Standing Committee members are elected in...

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“We don’t know” – a report from the beginning of the EMo Book Trade Project (ERC)

My personal teaching collection of early modern books counts one book printed in England, more specifically an ordinary duodecimo from Westminster. It is a 18th-century, corrected edition of George Ruggle’s Ignoramus. Comoedia. “Ignoramus” in Latin litterally means “we don’t know”, and refers in the play to an ignorant lawyer, who is a real dummkopf. Ruggle (1575–1622) based the Neolatin college play on Giambattista della Porta’s La Trappolaria, which was in turn an adaptation of Plautus’ Pseudolus. The satire, which makes a vicious attack on judiciary, was for the first time staged in Clare College, Cambridge, on 8 March 1615. King...

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Exhibition “Morocco in Pictures” – National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco

Exhibition “Morocco in Pictures” Within the Framework to make the Special Collections known to a wide audience, The National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco has organized an exhibition entitled “Morocco in Pictures” from 7th to 21st November 2016 at the Special Collections reading room. Free entry for subscribed users To make an appointment for group visits, please contact 05 37 27 23 73   م معرض” المغرب عبر الصور” من أجل التعريف بالمجموعات المتخصصة تنظم المكتبة الوطنية للمملكة المغربية معرضا تحت عنوان  المغرب عبر الصور و ذلك ما  بين 7 و 21 نونبر 2016 . بفضاء المجموعات المتخصصة. الدخول...

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Report from the IFLA Library of Congress Regional PAC Center

The Library of Congress (LOC) has been an IFLA/Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Center for many years, and has changed its focus during that time.   When the PAC produced the International Preservation News, (IPN) the LOC took responsibility for mailing the paper copies within North America.  When the publication ceased the LOC provided digital files of all the issues for the IFLA website to assure the availability of the valuable information that had been produced.  All issues are available for download from the IFLA website at  http://www.ifla.org/publications/international-preservation-news?og=32 Today the  LOC PAC Center focuses on providing resources through webpages and through broadcasting...

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Training on preserving photographs at the National Library of Kingkdom of Morocco

  A second round of advanced Environment and exhibition of photographs workshop is taking place from 10th to 21st october 2016 at the Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc in Rabat, as part of MEPPI program (Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative), which is a collaboration benefitting from the contributions of many organizations and individuals. This workshop in particular, is the result of the efforts and commitment of the following institutions: The Arab Image Foundation, the Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Conservation Institute. The Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative is made possible through a generous grant from the Andrew W....

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Helping the profession to define new standards for preservation

In August 2016, IFLA launched the survey on standards, guidelines, and best practises for the preservation and conservation of library materials. Why are we doing this? In the IFLA Strategic Plan, it states that IFLA will help with developing standards for the collection and preservation of content in its diverse forms.  In order to start this task, we have created a survey which will give us an overview of what standards, guidelines, and best practises are currently used by the profession when it comes to preservation and conservation or any materials held in libraries. The aim of the survey is...

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Conference round-up: ‘A rich tapestry: diverse collections and audiences’ (CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group, 7-9 September 2016, Liverpool)

How can the special collections sector champion diversity?  This question lay at the heart of this year’s CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group (RBSCG) Conference: ‘A rich tapestry: diverse collections and audiences’. Held in Liverpool, the three-day conference attracted 70 delegates, and I was lucky enough to be awarded one of the new professionals’ bursaries to attend.  With speakers from across the UK, the conference programme brought together a broad spectrum of libraries, archives, museums and professional networks to challenge thinking, inspire action and showcase successful examples of special collections putting diversity and equality at the centre of their...

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Autumn courses at Rare Books School (Virginia, USA)

This fall, Rare Book School will offer three courses that may be of interest to members of the IFLA Rare & Special community. — Special Collections Librarianship aims to teach the current issues, best practices, organizational development, knowledge and skills surrounding special collections librarianship. Taught by Michael Inman, Curator of Rare Books for the New York Public Library, at the main branch of NYPL, this course is a must-take for early-career professionals interested in special collections and for those who have not taken formal special collections coursework. (The full course description and advance reading list can be found at http://rarebookschool.org/courses/library/l10/)...

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Disaster Management Conference (Library of Alexandria) / (تخطيط إدارة الكوارث (مكتبة الإسكندرية

تستضيف مكتبة الإسكندرية مؤتمرًا عن تخطيط إدارة الكوارث في 23 و24 أكتوبر 2016م في المسرح الصغير بمركز مؤتمرات، مكتبة الإسكندرية. يُعقد هذا المؤتمر تحت شعار «تراثنا المعرض للخطر: التحديات وكيفية التعامل معها» مع التركيز بشكل خاص على إدارة الكوارث والتراث الثقافي في الوطن العربي. ستتطرق جلسات هذا المؤتمر للقضايا الرئيسية المتعلقة بطرق وتقنيات حماية التراث الثقافي والتخفيف من حدة المخاطر والحدّ من وقوع المزيد من الخسائر بالإضافة إلى الحفظ الرقمي، وسيكون من ضمن المتحدثين أشخاصًا عاشوا تجربة فقدان التراث الثقافي الناجم عن الكوارث الطبيعية أو الحروب. سيناقش المؤتمر أيضًا أفضل الممارسات المُتبعة في التصدي لمثل هذه الكوارث، وسيشارك متحدثون من...

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Draft standard available for public comment / Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries

The SAA–ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Standardized Statistical Measures for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries has posted for public comment an initial draft standard. The task force, which was formed in 2015, arose from the profession’s recognition of the need to be able to to “gather and analyze evidence concerning the effectiveness of their services and the efficiency of their operations” (Dupont, 2012). This desire was so visible that an entire special issue of RBM was dedicated to addressing concerns and needs. The Joint Task Force is responsible for development of a new standard defining...

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IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section events at WLIC 2016

The 2016 WLIC in Columbus, Ohio, is almost upon us and the Rare Books and Special Collections Section invites you to join our programme of events during the Congress. Full details of each session are posted on the Congress website but this post gives a short summary. Get involved! If you are interested in the Rare Books and Special Collections section, and in the issues involved in working with rare books and special collections of any kind, please come and speak to us at the Congress. You are invited to attend our off-site day on the Monday and our on-site...

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Report from the IFLA Brazil PAC Centre – A view on the conservation and restoration of the National Library collection

A report from the Center of Technical Processes and Preservation Coordination of Preservation, Biblioteca Nacional  The Coordination of Preservation is made up by the Conservation and Binding Center and the Restoration Laboratory, each respectively carrying out the conservation, restoration, binding and the packing of books and documents with different degrees of deterioration. Those items that show a high degree of deterioration for which conservation techniques are not sufficient to structurally restore them are sent for restoration. All the books and documents that make up the immense collection of the National Library, from journals and general books to those belonging to special...

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Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, 3rd edition, now available!

Facet Publishing have announced the release of the 3rd edition of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The Directory is the only publication to bring together rare book and special collections from all kinds of libraries across the UK and Ireland and is an essential research tool for researchers and librarians throughout the world. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997, this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in national libraries, academic libraries,  public libraries, subscription libraries, clergy libraries, libraries for other professions, school libraries,...

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Final Program for WLIC 2016 Off-site Session in Columbus- Worth a Thousand Words: A Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access

The final program is now available for a one-day, off-site workshop during the World Library and Information Congress in Columbus: Worth a Thousand Words: A Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access. The workshop takes place on Monday, 15 August 2016, at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum on the campus of Ohio State University and is sponsored by the IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections and the Art Libraries Sections. Monday, 15 August 2016, 9:00AM-5:30PM • 9:00-10:00—WELCOME AND OPENING PRESENTATION Welcome: Lisa Carter, Special Collections and Area Studies, The Ohio State University Libraries, USA Introduction of Elke Koppen: Valerie Hotchkiss,...

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Report from the IFLA Sri Lanka PAC Centre – Testing Aqua Fumigator (Cyphenothrin 72%) against insect pests of library books in Sri Lanka

The IFLA PAC Center of Sri Lanka conducted recent research on pest control. The members of the advisory committee of Sri Lanka IFLA PAC Center provided their support and expert assistance in this study. Cyphenothrin 72%- Aqua Fumigator is a well known commercial product which has been used in Sri Lanka to control library pests since the 1990s. The product was not imported during the last few years due to delay of local chemical registration processes to reimport. An experiment was designed to measure the effectiveness of fumigation to advise the librarians in the country. The fumigations were carried out...

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Manuscriptos Novohispanos en Lenguas Indígenas, en linea

Patrimonio Cultural del Tecnológico de Monterrey ha publicado en el recientemente estrenado Repositorio Institucional (RI) 32 documentos originalmente escritos en lenguas indígenas básicamente mesoamericanas. Estos documentos, provenientes del Fondo Reservado de la Biblioteca Cervantina del mismo Tecnológico, constituyen testimonios del pasaje de la escritura en forma pictográfica a la forma latinizada de las lenguas indígenas señaladas. Fueron escritos, como lo dice su nombre, en el período comprendido entre los años 1535 y 1821. Hay documentos en lengua chinanteco (11), náhuatl, o mexicano en la terminología virreinal (8), (1, al igual que los siguientes), totonaco de Papantla, otomí, coahuilteco, pajalate, tarasco,...

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Report from the IFLA Asia PAC Centre – Conservation activities using washi

This is the first of an ongoing series of reports from the IFLA Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centres regarding their activities and future work in their regions.  The National Diet Library of Japan (NDL) was designated the IFLA/PAC Regional Centre for Asia (PAC Asia) in 1989. PAC Asia was established in order to enhance awareness throughout Asia of the importance of preservation and conservation activities by distributing information, organizing training programs, and conducting other forms of research. Given that Asia is a vast area with a great variety of languages, cultures, and climates, PAC Asia’s task is no simple one, but...

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Conference round-up: “A common international standard for rare materials? Why? And how?” (22 February 2016, Lisbon)

On the 22nd of February 2016, the IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section delivered a one-day conference, hosted by the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, on the topic of changing trends in international descriptive standards for rare materials. The conference, entitled “A common international standard for rare materials? Why? And how?” provided a platform for 10 presentations from speakers from institutions from the United States, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden, and was attended by over 70 delegates from 14 different countries. A full programme of this conference can be found in a previous post on this blog, and...

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Call for Papers: Rare Books Collections in Brazil: the founding collections and collection development policies

The National Library of Brazil and the National Rare Books Program Identification (Plano Nacional de Recuperação de Obras Raras), has announced the call for papers to the 12th National Meeting of Rare Books to be held 24th and 25th November 2016. The theme of this year will be “Rare Books Collections in Brazil: the founding collections and collection development policies”. Further informations soon: http://planorweb.bn.br/ or https://www.bn.br/ The call for papers, in Portuguese, can be read here.

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نشاط متحف المخطوطات بمكتبة الإسكندرية في منتصف العام الدراسي 2016

“اكتشف الماضي لتبني حاضرك” نشاط متحف المخطوطات بمكتبة الإسكندرية في منتصف العام الدراسي 2016 تحت شعار “اكتشف الماضي لتبني حاضرك”، نظَّمت إدارة متحف المخطوطات بالتعاون مع مكتبة الطفل ومكتبة النشء في مكتبة الإسكندرية ورشة عمل  بعنوان “علوم ومخطوطات“، والتي تهدف إلى تسليط الضوء على الفترات المزدهرة في تاريخ الحضارة العربية الإسلامية، لمساعدة الطلبة على استلهام العبر وتشجيعهم على البحث عن الحقائق في شتى العلوم. ضمت ورشة العمل ثلاث محاضرات تعرّف الطلبة خلالهم على الطباعة وأدوات الكتابة، عن طريق عرض تقديمي يشرح تطور الكتابة عبر العصور، والأدوات المستعملة قبل الطباعة، وصولاً إلى اختراع آلة الطباعة ودورها في نشر العلم والمعرفة. كما...

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Bilketa, a new online resource for Basque collections / Bilketa, une nouvelle ressource en ligne sur les fonds basques

BILKETA est le nom d’un portail (www.bilketa.eus) qui se veut le portail d’entrée vers les fonds basques recensés en France, ces fonds basques étant compris comme l’ensemble des livres, périodiques, manuscrits, archives, photographies et toute iconographie, documents sonores et audiovisuels se rapportant au Pays basque ou en langue basque. Ces ressources sont fournies par un réseau de médiathèques, bibliothèques universitaires, musées, centres de documentation, de recherche, d’archives,… qui se trouvent sur le territoire du Pays basque ou au-delà en Aquitaine (Bordeaux, Pau). Le portail rassemble aujourd’hui près de 115 000 références de documents de natures très diverses : Il est le reflet...

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Final programme for ““A common international standard for rare materials? Why? And how?” one-day conference in Lisbon now available

The final programme for the one-day conference “A common international standard for rare materials cataloguing? Why? And how?” at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon) has been released. You can download the programme here, or view below: 22nd February 2016, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon), 10am-6pm Sponsored by the IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section and the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal 1000 start Welcome from the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal & the IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section   Introduction to the day: Daryl Green on the Edinburgh RDA conference (November 2015) and the goals of this conference Claudia...

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L’omaggio della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana ad Aldo Manuzio per i 500 anni dalla morte

Nel 1994 la Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana organizzò, per le cure di Marino Zorzi e Susy Marcon, un’importante esposizione, dal titolo Aldo Manuzio e l’ambiente veneziano, 1494-1515, nell’occasione del cinquecentenario dell’esordio di Aldo nella tipografia. Nel cinquecentenario della morte di Aldo, nonché della stampa del suo ultimo libro, la Marciana ha pensato di sviluppare la riflessione già avviata nel catalogo di quella mostra e di estenderla al contesto economico, sociale, produttivo, alle abitudini di lettura, al commercio librario a Venezia e in Europa fra Quattro e Cinquecento, senza dimenticare le grandi innovazioni della stampa in caratteri greci ed ebraici. Tutto questo...

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Registration OPEN: “A common international standard for rare materials cataloguing? Why? And how?”

“A common international standard for rare materials cataloguing? Why? And how?” 22nd February 2016, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon), 10am-6pm Registration is now open for this one-day conference being held at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon) on the 22February 2016, sponsored by the IFLA Rare Books & Special Collections Section and the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. This conference will aim to bring the discussion of changing trends and standards for the description of early printed books and special collections in all formats, for instance archives, audio-visual and born-digital material, to an international stage. In an age when catalogues and...

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Collection échiquéenne – Chess Library – Schach Sammlung – Bibliothèque municipale de Belfort

La bibliothèque municipale de Belfort inaugurera le fonds Mennerat le samedi 12 décembre 2015. Cette collection de 20 000 livres imprimés et 1000 périodiques fait partie des quelques grandes collections publiques entièrement consacrées au jeu d’échecs : John G White (Cleveland), van der Linde (La Haye), Von der Lasa (Kórnik). Le docteur Jean Mennerat avait acheté ses premiers ouvrages durant ses études à Paris auprès des bouquinistes des quais de Seine. Résistant et engagé dans les forces françaises libres durant la seconde guerre mondiale, il lança une revue échiquéenne quelques années après la Libération. Il reprit plus intensément son activité de collectionneur...

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For tomorrow and the future – Libraries safeguarding documentary cultural heritage

Throughout the centuries, libraries have been essential for the preservation, conservation and safeguarding of the worlds’ heritage. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) upholds the mission and we made this one of our core aims. Culture is a basic need.  A community thrives through its cultural heritage, it dies without it. IFLA, preservation, conservation and safeguarding of heritage At IFLA, we work with our members and our extensive preservation and conservation network on many different aspects of safeguarding documentary cultural heritage for the next generation. We engage in issues around digital preservation with the UNESCO PERSIST Project,...

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Le domaine de la Bibliothéconomie au Maroc: état actuel des choses

Ecole des sciences de l’information à Rabat L’Ecole des sciences de l’information (ESI) est une école étatique marocaine, créée en 1975, assurant la formation de bibliothécaires et d’archivistes. L’ESI a procédé à une réforme globale appliquée à la rentrée 2012-2013 conformément au décret n°2-10-222du 20 Mai 2011. Selon cette réforme, l’accès à l’école est conditionné par le passage par des classes préparatoires. La formation académique, continue et la recherche sont structurées autour de quatre filières principales : Bibliothéconomie et documentation ; Archivistique et records management ; Management et Ingénierie des systèmes d’information ; Veille stratégique et intelligence compétitive. A l’issue...

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“Picking Up the Pieces”: 8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Picking up the pieces In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year’s theme, “Picking up the Pieces,” considers the notions and consequences of fragmentation and reconstitution. When books are broken up, collections dispersed, or a society’s intellectual heritage is fragmented by time, nature, and human interventions, the act of piecing together the remains can lead to surprising insights about how and why...

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“Lyon, une capitale du livre à la Renaissance” : une nouvelle ressource en ligne sur l’histoire du livre à Lyon au XVIe siècle

Le site de l’Université Ouverte des Humanités propose une nouvelle ressource en ligne et gratuite sur l’histoire du livre à Lyon au XVIe siècle : Lyon, une capitale du livre à la Renaissance. Au XVIe siècle, Lyon fut une des capitales européennes et un centre majeur de l’imprimerie, au même titre que Paris, Venise ou Francfort. Pendant longtemps, elle ne fut célébrée dans l’historiographie traditionnelle qu’à travers les grands noms qui ont contribué à « l’âge d’or du livre lyonnais », à l’image des imprimeurs, marchands, ou les deux à la fois : Sébastien Gryphe, Étienne Dolet, Jean de Tournes, Guillaume Rouillé....

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The 37th Annual Conference on Book Trade History – Words on Paper : Transmission in Manuscript and Print, from the Fifteenth Century

The 37th Annual Conference on Book Trade History This year’s annual conference on book trade history will explore the uses of manuscript and print in the communication of ideas and information across four centuries. Leading scholars in the field will present original papers, drawing evidence from different countries and different historical periods. Speakers include Paul Davis (University College, London), Michael Harris, Arnold Hunt (British Library), Alison Shell (University College, London), Rowan Watson (V&A), and Bettina Wagner (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).   The conference is organised by Michael Harris, Giles Mandelbrote and Robin Myers, in association with the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association Educational...

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Managing and Promoting Special Collections in Africa: RBSC’s IFLA WLIC 2015 Preconference Satellite Meeting

Annual conferences are often bookended by preconferences and workshops at the start of them with tours of libraries, exhibits, and scenic side trips at their end, and the 2015 IFLA WLIC conference was no exception. But, what was exceptional was the theme and content of this year’s satellite meeting: Managing and Promoting Special Collections in Africa: the Bleek-Lloyd Collection and Beyond. Sponsored by IFLA’s Rare Books and Special Collections Section, organized by David Farneth (The Getty Institute), and hosted by Renate Meyer (Head, Special Collections Library, University of Cape Town), the preconference was a one day event that was attended...

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Seminariet: International Perspectives on Rare Book Librarianship (19 October 2015, Stockholm, Kungl. biblioteket)

Den 19 oktober 2015 arrangeras seminariet International Perspectives on Rare Book Librarianship i samarbete med Kungl. biblioteket. Seminariet vänder sig i första hand till personer som arbetar vid större eller mindre bibliotek som har egna äldre boksamlingar. Seminariet sätter denna typ av samlingar i ett större, internationellt perspektiv och visar på vikten av att tillgängliggöra dessa samlingar. Dagen ingår i seminarieserien Bevara för framtiden, som har som syfte att öka kunskapen om bevarande och tillgängliggörande av äldre boksamlingar. Seminarieserien är finansierad av Kungl. biblioteket och arrangerad i samverkan mellan Umeå universitetsbibliotek, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, Västerås stadsbibliotek samt Stockholms universitetsbibliotek. För...

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Neues Inkunabel-Blog der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

In der vergangenen Woche ist das neue Blog-Netzwerk für Forschung und Kultur der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ans Netz gegangen: http://blog.sbb.berlin/. Nunmehr ist auch ein speziell der Inkunabelforschung gewidmetes, vom Inkunabelreferat der SBB-PK unterhaltenes Blog in unserem Netzwerk verfügbar: http://blog.sbb.berlin/inkunabeln/. Die ersten Mitteilungen sind bereits eingestellt, weitere in dichter Folge zu erwarten, und wir würden uns über Anregungen, Hinweise, Kommentare und natürlich auch über Gastbeiträge (siehe dazu zunächst http://blog.sbb.berlin/zum-neuen-inkunabel-blog/) sehr freuen. — The Berlin State Library has recently launched its new Blog network at http://blog.sbb.berlin/. Within this network there’s a special blog dedicated to incunabula research, maintained by my subdepartment: http://blog.sbb.berlin/inkunabeln/....

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IFLA Conference Session Explores African Cultural Heritage Collaboration

At the IFLA Annual World Congress this year in Cape Town, the Rare Books and Special Collections Section sponsored a session devoted to “fostering collaboration to build and preserve African cultural heritage.” The section’s members devised the program to call broader attention to some of the impressive collaborative work that has been undertaken over the years as well as to get an update on the current state of the Timbuktu manuscripts. Four of the five papers can be found in the IFLA Library. Daryl Green (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom) moderated the session attended by ca. 200 people in...

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What happens when a book is lost? Cooperation between Libraries and the Rare Book Trade & the ILAB Missing Books Register

Thursday, 11 May 2023, 2 p.m. BST, 90 minutes What happens when a book is lost? Missing a rare book or experiencing theft can be a disturbing situation for any librarian, as well as for rare booksellers. This webinar discusses ways to inform the rare book trade in order to stop illicit material from circulating and, whenever possible, to help in the return of missing items. The IFLA Rare Book and Special Collections Section (RBSC) and ILAB, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, are collaborating to emphasise the importance of reporting missing items to the book trade. Booksellers will present...

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Empire, Indigeneity, and Colonial Heritage Collections: Confronting Difficult Pasts, Enabling Just Futures

Call for Papers, WLIC 2023 The IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section (RBSC) and the Indigenous Matters Section (IM) are seeking proposals for presentations and sessions for their Joint Satellite Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2023 in Leiden on the 18th and 19th of August, 2023. This Satellite Conference will be devoted to the role that individuals working in the area of special collections and heritage can have in confronting the ongoing legacies of colonialism, and creating space for Indigenous perspectives. How can librarians, archivists, and curators contribute and act to engender a deep and...

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Libraries in the Time of War Symposium / Uppsala, Sweden / March 2023

The 2023 mid-term meeting of the IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections committee was held 15–17 March in Uppsala, Sweden. The first day was dedicated to committee meetings, which were held in the Uppsala University Library main building, Carolina Rediviva. This included discussions about upcoming webinars, satellite meetings, and conference sessions, among other things. The first day ended with a tour of the library, with a special focus on Book Hall and its historical collections. The second day of RBSC’s midterm meeting was devoted to Libraries in the Time of War, arranged by the IFLA RBSC in collaboration with CERL...

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Libraries in the Time of War

March 16, 2023. Hosted by Uppsala University in Collaboration with IFLA and CERL Libraries are especially impacted during times of national and international conflict. In fact, cultural heritage institutions are often targeted for destruction to undermine the national and cultural identities of those under attack. While the theft of cultural artefacts as spoils of war were historically, under the correct circumstances, in accordance with international law in the early modern period, such practices have been strongly condemned in the modern period. Nevertheless, the international community continues to witness the plunder and destruction of libraries and museums during modern armed conflicts....

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IFLA Rare Book and Special Collections Section Launches Global Survey to Assess the Value of Cultural Heritage and Special Collections

Special collections around the world come in a wide range of formats and sizes. Together they are defined and characterized by their cultural significance, uniqueness, provenance, rarity, financial value, and by the security and storage arrangements that are required to ensure their long-term preservation and accessibility. Last year RBSC organized a ‘provocation’ session as part of WLIC 2021 and invited four ‘provocateurs’ to propose new approaches to the question of how and what we value in special collections, and in doing so challenge the audience to think about their values and what they mean to today’s communities, researchers, and practitioners....

Exhibitions: Designed to Inspire and Engage, WLIC 2022

Join RBSC and P&C at WLIC 2022 for Exhibitions: Designed to Inspire and Engage (Session 068) Room: Liffey Hall 2 Tuesday, July 26, 13:15 – 14:30   This joint IFLA program will address the shared institutional challenges and opportunities of exhibitions in twenty-first century, post-pandemic cultural heritage institutions. Libraries are increasingly tasked with finding spaces for public exhibitions, and the line dividing libraries and museums is increasingly blurred. Enviably, the increased demand for exhibitions has also increased the demand for loans of cultural heritage objects, regardless of institutional size and staffing. This session is a recognition of this changing institutional...

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IFLA WLIC 2021 – get your e-Library ticket now!

This year’s World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), the annual big-tent event put on by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), was delivered virtually over a three-day period. In pre-pandemic times, WLICs take place over a six- or seven-day period, with hundreds of standing committee meetings, paper sessions, governance meetings, poster and vendor exhibitions and cultural events taking place. This years virtual alternative strove to bring together some of the magic of being together in-person, whilst also delivering new kinds of content and sessions, and also across multiple time-zones to a global audience. One of the major benefits of...

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Rare Books and Special Collections Adapting to a Global Pandemic: Continuing our Webinar Conversation

The IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections section hosted a webinar, “Rare Books and Special Collections Adapting to a Global Pandemic” on February 10, 2021.  (The webinar recording is available from our blog.)  Because the panel did not have time to address all the questions that came in during the webinar itself, we promised to address additional questions in a follow up blog post.  Webinar moderator Meg Phillips, External Affairs Liaison at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, invited the panelists to address more of the questions by email, and this post is the result.  The panelists are: Stephanie...

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Register for Upcoming Webinar: Rare Books and Special Collections Adapting to a Global Pandemic

Please join the IFLA’s Rare Books and Special Collections Section for a virtual discussion of the ways special collections libraries have adapted to the new pandemic operating environment.  All are welcome!  Details and registration information are below.   Rare Books and Special Collections: Adapting to a Global PandemicWhen: 10 February 2021Where: Online The IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section is offering a panel discussion on the different experiences, plans, and lessons learned about providing services and continuing operations during a pandemic. Learn how special collections librarians from Spain, Sweden, Singapore, and the United States, representing national libraries, university libraries, and...

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Libraries in the time of Covid: Crete University Library

What is your name and title, where do you work, and what kind of patrons do you normally have? My name is Konstantinos Papadakis. I am a librarian and I work in Special Collection department of the library of University of Crete. The users of our library are university professors, students, researchers, scholars and citizens from local community. How has your institution been affected by COVID-19? i) In the beginning of Covid crisis in Greece March 20 to June 15, the Library, as a gathering place for individuals, remained closed to the public. The staff of the library was working...

Libraries in the time of Covid: Uppsala University Library 0

Libraries in the time of Covid: Uppsala University Library

Interview of Peter Sjökvist, Rare Books’ Curator at Uppsala University. What is your name and title, where do you work, and what kind of patrons do you normally have? Peter Sjökvist, Rare Books’ Curator at Uppsala University (Sweden). Our patrons are in the first place students and researchers, but the library is also for the general public. How has your institution been affected by COVID-19?  Our library has been affected in very many ways, but, in an international perspective, probably comparatively little. The library has, for instance, never been closed. Reading rooms have also been open, and so even our...

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Libraries in the time of Covid: Biblioteca Nacional de España

Interview of Adelaida Caro Martin, Head of Rare Books at the National Library of Spain.   What is your name and title, where do you work, and what kind of patrons do you normally have? My name is Adelaida Caro. I’m Head of Rare Books at the National Library of Spain, in Madrid. Although the BNE has many different kinds of patrons, the usual ones at the Sala Cervantes, the reading room where patrons have access to the collections preserved at the Department of Manuscripts, Incunabula and Rare Books, are specialized researchers. How has your institution been affected by COVID-19? ...

CANCELLED /// Call for Papers –  Islamic Manuscripts and Imprints: Special Needs and International Endeavors 0

CANCELLED /// Call for Papers – Islamic Manuscripts and Imprints: Special Needs and International Endeavors

[We are sorry to announce that we had to cancel the mid-term meeting we were supposed to hold in Alexandria this year, due to the current events in the Middle East preventing several of us from traveling to Egypt. We are very sorry for the inconvenience. Above all, we are sorry we cannot organize the conference on the Islamic Manuscripts and Prints. We are looking for solutions and still haven’t made a decision about postponing it or just cancelling it] IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Conference, Bibliotheca Alexandria (Alexandria, Egypt), March 19th, 2020             The IFLA Rare Books...