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...
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...
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...
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?...
[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...
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...
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...
Crisis or Enlightenment? Developments in the Book Trade (1650-1750) St Andrews Book Conference, 20-22 June 2019 It has never been questioned that the European Enlightenment was made by books. The intellectual movement which swept across...
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...
“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...