Would you like to get involved with the Rare Books and Special Collections Section (RBSC)? Here’s how: Explore our projects page – contact the project organiser or Section ChairProvide a translation for one of our resources – contact our Information CoordinatorLearn how to become a Standing Committee… Read More
The IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section (RBSC) would like to investigate what standards, norms, practices, laws, Return On Investment (ROI) studies, and research exist around the world to measure the different values of Special Collections, and identify the gaps where such information does not exist, with a view to draft and publish a report that can be a guide to cultural heritage institutions to formulate the questions to ask if they want to measure the value of their Special Collections as a tool for advocacy. Read More
This event in QNL's series “Readings From the Qatar National Library Manuscript Collection” is dedicated to the first Islamic manuscript and the most important of the manuscripts of Islamic faith: the Holy Qur’an. Read More
The IFLA Rare Book & Special Collections Section (RBSC) is pleased to announce a new virtual session: Competency Guidelines for Rare Books and Special Collections Professionals. Read More
Atikah Haroen Librarian of the Rare Newspapers Collection Department, The National Library of Indonesia E-mail : tt6340571@gmail.com INTRODUCTION The impact of the pandemic has forced libraries to start shifting from physical to digital services in whole or in part. This makes the role of librarians more challenging and also offers… Read More
The Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia, host of one of IFLA's Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centres, is hosting the V Interdisciplinary Scientific and Practical Conference: "Rare Books in Terms of Preservation". Read More
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: MORE THAN BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY CREATIVE SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO INNOVATIVE PACKAGING FOR PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL COLLECTIONS The presentation on an unusual topic – packaging. Short material is touching the archival context of packaging digital documents and physical items, especially for particular precious or delicate special… Read More
IFLA supports the statement by ICOMOS concerning the destruction of cultural property in Tigray (Ethiopia). Read More
The Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre hosted at Qatar National Library presents the final event in the Watermarks Lecture Series: A Reading in Charles-Moïse Briquet’s Encyclopedia. In 1917, Charles-Moïse Briquet produced the mammoth four-volume work Les Filigranes, in which 16,112 watermarks were collected from libraries and archives, official documents of… Read More
The Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre hosted at Qatar National Library presents the thurd event in the Watermarks Lecture Series: Determining the Age of Paper Between the Date of Manufacture and Use. Dmitry Likhachov believes that the maximum period that paper takes from the date of its manufacture until… Read More