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 email 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