Category: Standing Committee activities

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Photos from the RBSC Committee’s activities in Cape Town now on Flickr

A new album has been added to the IFLA Rare Book and Special Collections Standing Committee’s Flickr photostream from our activities in at and around the 2015 WLIC in Cape Town. These included a one-day satellite conference at the University of Cape Town and a visit to the University’s Special Collections, Standing Committee meetings and sponsored sessions at the WLIC, and visits to several libraries in and around Cape Town. More photos will be added soon, and if you have any you would like to contribute please get in touch!  

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