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IFLA Rare Book and Special Collections Section launches global survey

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. 

IFLA Survey on Rare Materials Cataloguing with RDA

O trafico ilicito do patrimonio bibliografico na América Latina e Caribe

A conference on illegal trafficking of bibliographical cultural heritage will take place at the National Library of Brazil

Presentations now available: "Libraries in the sky: large-scale collaboration strategies and infrastructures to enhance the use of digital heritage collections"

Presentations from the IFLA RBSC midterm conference in Oslo are now available

Please join in the Rare Books and Special Collections Section events in Kuala Lumpur

La convocatoria de trabajos a ser presentados durante la II Jornada IFLA El tráfico ilícito del patrimonio bibliográfico en América Latina y el Caribe - 28 de noviembre de 2018

Survey on rare materials cataloguing with RDA

In the last years an increasing number of libraries are adopting RDA as a cataloguing standard. Still, what happens to their rare materials?

Programme now available for IFLA RBSCS 2018 Mid-term conference in Oslo!

Programme for one-day conference on large-scale collaboration strategies and infrastructures to enhance the use of digital heritage collections, 12 April 2018 (Oslo)

Conference Update: Join in the Rare Books and Special Collections sessions and meetings in Wroclaw

Business meeting agendas and links to RBSC-sponsored sessions.

"Pre-registration" is open for off-site session 088: “Collections and Books [A]cross Borders"

Please "pre-register" if you plan to attend.

Please join in the Rare Books and Special Collections Section events in Wroclaw, Poland.

See a complete list here.

Announcing an international conference: “Cultural Heritage in Latin American and Caribbean Libraries: challenges and perspectives”

27-28 September 2017. Biblioteca Nacional “Mariano Moreno”, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sponsored by the Biblioteca Nacional “Mariano Moreno” and IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section

WLIC 2017 Call for Papers: Rare Books and Special Collections Section and Indigenous Matters Section

The IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section invites proposals for papers for two sessions at the WLIC in Wrocław: a 2-hour open session “Out of the Stacks: Special Collections In Society” and a special all-day session co-sponsored with the Indigenous Matters Section “Collections and Books [A]cross Borders.” Deadline 28 February 2017.

RBSC seeking members for Standing Committee

The Rare Books and Special Collections Section invites you to serve on our standing committee!

Watch this space! Calls for Papers coming soon.

Read about the Rare Books and Special Collections Section program plans for WLIC 2017 in Wrocław.

Presentations now available: "Worth a Thousand Words" A Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access"

View the presentations made at IFLA WLIC 2016, Session 091, an all-day, off-site session sponsored by the Rare Books and Special Collections Sections and the Art Libraries Section.

Please join the RBSC in Columbus, Ohio at WLIC 2016

See a complete list of the section's activities.

Pre-register now for Off-site Session in Columbus: Worth a Thousand Words: A Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access

Sponsored by the Rare Books and Special Collections Section and the Art Libraries Section

Presentations now available: “A common international standard for rare materials? Why? And how?”

Read abstracts and presentations from the Rare Books and Special Collections Section Midterm meeting in Lisbon.

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Theft in libraries -- facing the hidden truth"

This session at the 2016 IFLA World Congress is presented by the Rare Books and Special Collections Section and the Preservation and Conservation Core Activity. Deadline: 29 February 2016.