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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...

Join us at WLIC 2019 in Athens! 0

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. 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 programme sessions and...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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