Author: IFLA Rare Books & Special Collections Section
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...
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...
Rare Books and Special Collections Adapting to a Global Pandemic: video of the webinar
Thanks to the members of the section who organized it and the many participants, our webinar has been a success: thanks to all! You can now watch it and send the video to those...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
Standards, catalog records and special collections: a few words about the RBSCS Metadata Working Group
For those in love with rare books and special collections, finding a good catalogue is always good news. No matter if it’s a latest generation database with links to high quality digital reproductions, a...
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...
Join us at WLIC 2019 in Athens!
IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section events at WLIC 2019 The Rare Books and Special Collections Section invites you to join our programme of events during the Congress in Athens, 24-30 August 2019....
University Libraries and the Sendai Framework
Funding cuts, climate change, conflict, natural hazards and other disruptive events are affecting cultural heritage around the world, including special collections held in libraries. The protection of heritage during disruptive events contributes to the...
What is the state of Collection Security in your library?
The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) is working to help its member libraries and other organisations that curate cultural heritage collections to answer precisely that question. As a membership organisation, CERL aims to...
IFLA Survey on Rare Materials Cataloguing with RDA
Standardized cataloguing of rare materials has always been a complex matter, historically fragmented within geographical regions until the arrival in the 1980s of standardized models, such as ISBD and DCRM, which were quickly adopted...
Why not join us as a committee member?
IFLA has announced its Call for Nominations for Section Standing Committees August 2019 – August 2023 is now open. This call outlines what is expected of committee members in general. If you are interested...