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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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IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section events at WLIC 2016

The 2016 WLIC in Columbus, Ohio, is almost upon us and the Rare Books and Special Collections Section invites you to join our programme of events during the Congress. Full details of each session are posted on the Congress website but this post gives a short summary. Get involved! If you are interested in the Rare Books and Special Collections section, and in the issues involved in working with rare books and special collections of any kind, please come and speak to us at the Congress. You are invited to attend our off-site day on the Monday and our on-site...

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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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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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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...