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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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Standards, catalog records and special collections: a few words about the RBSCS Metadata Working Group 0

Standing Committee activities

Standards, catalog records and special collections: a few words about the RBSCS Metadata Working Group

For those in love with rare books and special collections, finding a good catalogue is always good news. No matter if it’s a latest generation database with links to high quality digital reproductions, a common online catalogue or a dusty printed bibliography half hidden in a shady shelf, if it’s good, it’s a treasure. And good (regardless of format, date, cataloguing rules, encoding format and usually even language) means that, thanks to it, the reader will easily identify and retrieve the document she or he is looking for. That’s why, in a profession in constant evolution, where traditional rare books...

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Conference sessions / Events / Standing Committee activities

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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Conference sessions / Events

Final programme for ““A common international standard for rare materials? Why? And how?” one-day conference in Lisbon now available

The final programme for the one-day conference “A common international standard for rare materials cataloguing? Why? And how?” at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon) has been released. You can download the programme here, or view below: 22nd February 2016, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon), 10am-6pm Sponsored by the IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section and the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal 1000 start Welcome from the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal & the IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section   Introduction to the day: Daryl Green on the Edinburgh RDA conference (November 2015) and the goals of this conference Claudia...

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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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Events / Training

RDA & Rare Materials Seminar, Edinburgh, 6th November

CIG Scotland is delighted to host an international seminar on RDA & Rare Materials, in conjunction with members of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS), the European RDA Interest Group (EURIG), the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group (RBSCG), the CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group (CIG), IFLA and JSC This seminar has been organised in association with the meeting of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA, which meets at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh on 2-6 November 2015 Seminar details Date: Friday 6th November Time: 10.00-16:00 Venue: Edinburgh Centre for...