Theme: Preserving our origins: Approaches to the organization, curation, and historiography of the record of national and international organizations in libraries, information, and documentation. Read More
Would you like to get involved with the Library History SIG (LIBHIST SIG)? Here’s how: 1. Learn more about our projects and initiatives and our past WLIC Sessions – contact our Convenor 2. Provide a translation for one of our resources – contact our Convenor 3. Learn how… Read More
The Library History Special Interest Group is about to embark on a series of projects on oral histories of the world’s librarians, hence the theme for its session at this conference – a theme in keeping with that of the WLIC 2020 conference in Dublin, and our Call for… Read More
The IFLA SIG Library History decided to partner with a Section for IFLA 2019 in Athens and the Section on Genealogy and Local History (Genloc) agreed. As you can see from the Call for Papers, the topics on offer are quite varied and there are a couple which… Read More
Annual Report 2018-2019 [in PDF] Annual Report 2017-2018 [in PDF] Annual Report 2016-2017 [in PDF]… Read More
Action Plan 2019-2020 [in PDF] Action Plan 2018-2019 [in PDF] Action Plan 2017-2018 [in PDF]… Read More
I have to confess that when I arrived at the Centennial Hall at the conference venue in Wroclaw and saw the venue for our session, I did wonder if perhaps it was a little large. The SIG Library History's session on Libraries in times of crisis: historical perspectives was early in… Read More
2022 The Library History SIG open session was held on 26 July during IFLA 2022 Conference in Dublin and was organized as an open conversation aimed to prepare for a commemorative volume of chapters about various aspects of IFLA’s history. The SIG’s theme was: “Sources and Themes for the Historiography… Read More