RBSC Projects

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 a book is lost? Cooperation between Libraries and the Rare Book Trade & the ILAB Missing Books Register, Registration OPEN NOW

Past Projects

• Libraries in the Time of War, 2023
  • Libraries in the Time of War Symposium
• RBSC Competency Guidelines
  • Competency Standards and Guidelines for Rare Book and Special Collections Professionals
  • Competency Guidelines for Rare Books and Special Collections Professionals: A Discussion, 2022
• Libraries during the Time of Covid
  • Adapting to a Global Pandemic, 2021 Webinar 
  • Crete University Library, Spotlight
  • Biblioteca Nacional de España, Spotlight
  • Upsala University, Spotlight
• Digitization
  • Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
• Proposal to change the name of the section