The recording of the SIG’s session for IFLA’s WLIC 2021 is completed. The session is titled “Librarians learning from the past to inspire, include and sustain” and is scheduled for Day 3 (19 August 2021) of the conference. You will need to check the schedule for the time in… Read More
As outlined in its Action Plans from 2019 the SIG Library History has embarked on what some might think are a very ambitious set of projects on the oral histories of our librarians past and present. As the project develops a number of streams reveal themselves and those… Read More
SIG Library History 2020 Annual Report, and Action Plan 2020-2021 Read More
Library History Special Interest Group at IFLA 2020 Dublin and IFLA 2021 Rotterdam 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
For those of you coming to Athens, please join us at the Library History SIG business meeting and open session Read More
With many thanks to the Editor of the IFLA Journal Steve Witt (and former convenor of the LIbary History SIG), the March 2019 edition of IFLA Journal is a Special Issue on Libraries in Times of Crisis containing some of the papers presented at this session, as well as other… 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
The attached article was written by Dr Russell Cope, Parliamentary Librarian at the Parliament of New South Wales from 1962 until 1993 and a very active IFLA member. It is a recollection of Wolfgang Dietz (Bonn Library) and Gerhard Hahn (Bundestag Library) and their contributions to post war… Read More
SIG Library History Session on Transform Libraries, Transform Societies: Library Outreach to Marginalized Populations – Historical Perspectives. The SIG Library History’s session at IFLA Kuala Lumpur was again early in the conference programme and it would seem that each year the number of competitive meetings and… Read More