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From: "Daryl Green" <dtg4(a)st-andrews.ac.uk>
Date: Jan 7, 2016 13:23
Subject: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] FINAL REMINDER CFP: “A common international
standard for rare materials cataloguing? Why? And how?”
[apologies for cross-posting]
CALL FOR PAPERS:
“A common international standard for rare materials cataloguing? Why? And
how?”
22nd February 2016, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon)
The Rare Books and Special Collections Section of IFLA (RBSCS) invite
paper
proposals for a one-day conference being held at the Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon) on the 22February 2016, sponsored by the IFLA
RBSCS and the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
This conference will aim to bring the discussion of changing trends and
standards
for the description of early printed books and special
collections in all formats, for instance archives, audio-visual and
born-digital material, to an international stage. In an age when catalogues
and metadata are shared across libraries, systems and borders, should there
be a common international standard for the cataloguing of rare books and
special collections? Is this a desirable or attainable goal? What might
such a common standard look like, and how might it be achieved?
Possible topics:
- existing national and international standards
- case studies of the adoption, adaptation or rejection of particular
cataloguing
standards at institutional or national level
- methodology and delivery of shared cataloguing
programmes and data
interoperability
- integrating standards for different formats
- theoretical, methodological or historical perspectives
- the needs of researchers and other users, or of cataloguers and other
data
creators
Papers should be 20 minutes in length and can be in any of any of the
seven
official IFLA languages.
The committee will also accept proposals for posters (maximum width of
80cm) which
can be displayed in the conference venue on the day of the
event.
Please submit abstracts for papers or posters of up to 500 words to Daryl
Green,
Section Information Coordinator, dtg4(a)st-andrews.ac.uk
Deadline: 8 January 2016
Daryl Green
Rare Books Librarian
University of St Andrews Library
Special Collections Division
Library Annexe
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St Andrews
KY16 9WH
Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)1334 462325
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