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Rare & Special: News from the Rare Books and Special Collections Section of IFLA

News from the Rare Books and Special Collections Section of IFLA

Monthly Archive: January 2016

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Events / Exhibitions

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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Conference sessions / Events

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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resources

A (very) brief history of rare book cataloguing in Spain

 In the beginning there was… With the creation of the Cuerpo Facultativo de Archiveros, Bibliotecarios y Arqueólogos [High Council of Civil Archivists, Librarians and Archeologists] in 1858, appeared as well the first serious regulatory attempts regarding printed books cataloguing. However, it was not until 1901 that the Instrucciones para la redacción de catálogos en las bibliotecas públicas del Estado [Instructions for the composition of catalogues in the public libraries], considered as the first cataloguing code, were published. In the aforementioned instructions, only incunabula were considered as early printed books  —the usual practice in those times— and their treatment included elements...