Rare books and manuscripts are part of the global cultural heritage. Their significance as intellectual creations, historic collections, and objets d’art exceed boundaries of language, state or period. Scholars, librarians, book and art historians, bibliophiles, and library users from all over the world read, study, and admire them. Special… Read More
Current Projects Empire, Indigeneity, and Colonial Heritage Collections, WLIC 2023 Call For Papers, OPEN NOW Twenty-First Century Description for Heritage Collections: Changing Perspectives, Changing Language, Changing Cultures, WLIC 2023 Call for Papers, OPEN NOW Theft and Trafficking of Documentary Cultural Heritage 11 May, 2023 What happens when… Read More
2023 WLIC, Rotterdam, CALL FOR PAPERS Twenty-First Century Description for Heritage Collections: Changing Perspectives, Changing Language, Changing Cultures The IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section are seeking proposals for papers to be presented at their Open Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2023 in… Read More
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Introduction The purpose of these guidelines is to promote digital reference best practices on an international basis. The online environment is uniquely suited to consortial models of work and to the development of shared resources. Libraries in different countries may have different traditions of public service, which both affect… Read More
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2022 World Library and Information Congress: 87th IFLA Congress and General Assembly: July, 2022, Dublin, Ireland. Theme: Envisioning Post-pandemic Reference & Information Services and Support in a Shifting World 2019 World Library and Information Congress: 85th IFLA Congress and General Assembly: August, 2019 Athens, Greece. Theme:… Read More
IFLA 2014 Conference Report (Lyon, France) Spanish … Read More