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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: December 2020

Libraries in the time of Covid: Crete University Library 0

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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 department of the library of University of Crete. The users of our library are university professors, students, researchers, scholars and citizens from local community. How has your institution been affected by COVID-19? i) In the beginning of Covid crisis in Greece March 20 to June 15, the Library, as a gathering place for individuals, remained closed to the public. The staff of the library was working...

Libraries in the time of Covid: Uppsala University Library 0

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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 at Uppsala University (Sweden). Our patrons are in the first place students and researchers, but the library is also for the general public. How has your institution been affected by COVID-19?  Our library has been affected in very many ways, but, in an international perspective, probably comparatively little. The library has, for instance, never been closed. Reading rooms have also been open, and so even our...

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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? My name is Adelaida Caro. I’m Head of Rare Books at the National Library of Spain, in Madrid. Although the BNE has many different kinds of patrons, the usual ones at the Sala Cervantes, the reading room where patrons have access to the collections preserved at the Department of Manuscripts, Incunabula and Rare Books, are specialized researchers. How has your institution been affected by COVID-19? ...