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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

Tagged: 2015

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Events

Collection échiquéenne – Chess Library – Schach Sammlung – Bibliothèque municipale de Belfort

La bibliothèque municipale de Belfort inaugurera le fonds Mennerat le samedi 12 décembre 2015. Cette collection de 20 000 livres imprimés et 1000 périodiques fait partie des quelques grandes collections publiques entièrement consacrées au jeu d’échecs : John G White (Cleveland), van der Linde (La Haye), Von der Lasa (Kórnik). Le docteur Jean Mennerat avait acheté ses premiers ouvrages durant ses études à Paris auprès des bouquinistes des quais de Seine. Résistant et engagé dans les forces françaises libres durant la seconde guerre mondiale, il lança une revue échiquéenne quelques années après la Libération. Il reprit plus intensément son activité de collectionneur...

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Conference sessions / Events

Manoscritti e Metadati – one day meeting in Milan, 26 November 2015.

A meeting on the theme ‘Manuscripts and metadata’ will be held at Archivio storico civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, in Milan, on 26 November 2015. The aim of the meeting is to illustrate how metadata is used to make digital reproductions of manuscripts accessible on the Web, and to discuss whether a common standard could be developed to meet the needs of scholars, university students and – in specific projects – of a more generic public. Speakers: Fabio Venuda (Università degli studi di Milano), Mirella Ferrari (Università Cattolica, Milano) and Stefano Zamponi (Università degli studi di Firenze), Claudio Gamba (Regione Lombardia), Isabella...

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Events / Training

“Picking Up the Pieces”: 8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Picking up the pieces In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year’s theme, “Picking up the Pieces,” considers the notions and consequences of fragmentation and reconstitution. When books are broken up, collections dispersed, or a society’s intellectual heritage is fragmented by time, nature, and human interventions, the act of piecing together the remains can lead to surprising insights about how and why...

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Events / resources

The 37th Annual Conference on Book Trade History – Words on Paper : Transmission in Manuscript and Print, from the Fifteenth Century

The 37th Annual Conference on Book Trade History This year’s annual conference on book trade history will explore the uses of manuscript and print in the communication of ideas and information across four centuries. Leading scholars in the field will present original papers, drawing evidence from different countries and different historical periods. Speakers include Paul Davis (University College, London), Michael Harris, Arnold Hunt (British Library), Alison Shell (University College, London), Rowan Watson (V&A), and Bettina Wagner (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).   The conference is organised by Michael Harris, Giles Mandelbrote and Robin Myers, in association with the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association Educational...

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Conference sessions / Events / Standing Committee activities

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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Events

Seminariet: International Perspectives on Rare Book Librarianship (19 October 2015, Stockholm, Kungl. biblioteket)

Den 19 oktober 2015 arrangeras seminariet International Perspectives on Rare Book Librarianship i samarbete med Kungl. biblioteket. Seminariet vänder sig i första hand till personer som arbetar vid större eller mindre bibliotek som har egna äldre boksamlingar. Seminariet sätter denna typ av samlingar i ett större, internationellt perspektiv och visar på vikten av att tillgängliggöra dessa samlingar. Dagen ingår i seminarieserien Bevara för framtiden, som har som syfte att öka kunskapen om bevarande och tillgängliggörande av äldre boksamlingar. Seminarieserien är finansierad av Kungl. biblioteket och arrangerad i samverkan mellan Umeå universitetsbibliotek, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, Västerås stadsbibliotek samt Stockholms universitetsbibliotek. För...

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Conference sessions / Standing Committee activities

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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Standing Committee activities

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!