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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

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Conference sessions / Events / Standing Committee activities

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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Conference sessions

WLIC 2017 Call for Papers

The IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section invites proposals for papers for an open 2-hour session and a special all-day session co-sponsored by the Indigenous Matters Section at the 83rd IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Wrocław, Poland, 19-25 August 2017. Themes: “Out of the Stacks: Special Collections In Society” What happens when special collections are taken out of their library home, either virtually or physically, and used by the library or by others beyond the traditional ways in which libraries have interpreted these collections for audiences who come into their buildings. Today’s exhibitions may be accompanied by a programme...

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Events

Call for Papers: Rare Books Collections in Brazil: the founding collections and collection development policies

The National Library of Brazil and the National Rare Books Program Identification (Plano Nacional de Recuperação de Obras Raras), has announced the call for papers to the 12th National Meeting of Rare Books to be held 24th and 25th November 2016. The theme of this year will be “Rare Books Collections in Brazil: the founding collections and collection development policies”. Further informations soon: http://planorweb.bn.br/ or https://www.bn.br/ The call for papers, in Portuguese, can be read here.