22 December 2009
Satellite Meeting Call for Papers :
IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section and The Rare Books and Manuscripts section invite speakers to present papers for a satellite meeting in conjunction to the IFLA World Library and Information Conference 2010. The satellite conference takes place on August 17-19 2010 at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
The theme for the satellite conference is: ”New techniques for old documents. Scientific examination methods in the service of preservation and book history".
Within this theme we welcome papers on scientific techniques such as DNA, infrared spectroscopy, imaging techniques and micro x-ray fluorescence. All these techniques may be used in conservation treatments and material bibliographic issues such as the determination of animals for leathers, provenance through DNA-analysis, measuring paper strength, examination of pigments and inks for palimpsests and other documents, and ICR - (Intelligent Character recognition) for the recognition of hand-written text.
We would like to encourage a multi-disciplinary meeting and therefore, relevant papers from both scientists, conservators, book-historians and others who may add interesting and new knowledge within the overall topic, are welcome to submit abstracts for a paper. Please send an abstract of no more than 350 words by e-mail only, to Per.Cullhed@ub.uu.se <mailto:Per.Cullhed@ub.uu.se> and Raphaele.Mouren@enssib.fr <mailto:Raphaele.Mouren@enssib.fr> before March 1, 2010. The submissions will be examined during March and prospective speakers will be notified on April 6. The abstract should include the following:
- Name of the speaker
- Institutional affiliation and address
- Title of the paper
- Short biography
The conference will be a two-day meeting, including social events.
Visits are planned for August 19. Please note that speakers will have
to cover their own expenses for travel and accommodation. However, IFLA
satellite conferences normally attract a worldwide audience with many
opportunities for discussions and interesting meetings.
Per Cullhed /IFLA Section for Preservation and Conservation
Raphaële Mouren/IFLA Section for Rare Books and Manuscripts
