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From: Daryl Green <daryl.green(a)magd.ox.ac.uk>
Dear all,
The Rare Books and Special Collections section of IFLA will be hosting a
session at the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC
<https://2019.ifla.org/>) in Athens this August. This session, entitled
“The migration of books: cultural heritage (objects) and ideas on the
move”. The organising committee is looking for expressions of interest and
abstracts for this session, the call is now open until early March.
Please see here
<https://2019.ifla.org/cfp-calls/rare-books-special-collections-section/>
and below for full session details. If you have any questions, please do
not hesitate to get in touch directly.
With best wishes,
Daryl Green
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*Daryl Green*
Librarian, Magdalen College
Co-Director, *Thinking 3D <https://www.thinking3d.ac.uk/>*
*Hon. Secretary, Oxford Bibliographical Society
<https://www.oxbibsoc.org.uk/>*
Magdalen College * |* Oxford *|* OX1 4AU
Tel: +44 (0)1865 276045 / 276057
www.magd.ox.ac.uk
Registered Charity Number: 1142149
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*IFLA Rare Books & Special Collections section*
*Theme:* "The migration of books: cultural heritage (objects) and ideas on
the move"
From the inception of the printing press, books, and
the ideas that they
carry, have been sold, traded, and carried around the globe.
Manuscripts,
too, were copied, sold, and given as networks of transmission of ideas
developed. Books as objects move throughout time and space, and those which
have survived to modern day each have their own story to tell, their own
journey and influence to reveal. Today, documentary cultural heritage
objects still circulate on the open market, either via bonafide markets or
illicit means, especially from areas affected by violence or political
turmoil.
This session aims not merely to explore the global movement or loss of
documentary cultural heritage, both historically and in the modern world,
but also to share strategies for addressing the international community’s
challenges with theft and illegal trade. An understanding of this problem
can be informed by individual academic or library research projects and
case studies; however, the session’s main goal is to uncover the
overarching needs of the international library and archive community and
identify promising projects, tools, tactics, networks that might assist us
in meeting common needs.
Topics covered could include:
– Movement of people and movement of books, cultural heritage as commercial
objects;
– Spoliation or repatriation of documentary cultural heritage;
– Framework for tracing the movement of cultural heritage objects (unique
identifiers for manuscripts and archival documents, individual copies of
printed books, etc.; academic projects tracing the movement of documentary
cultural heritage);
– Theft of cultural heritage objects, international reporting, and working
together.
Submission guidelines:
Abstracts for paper and presentations of no more than 30 minutes in length
are to be submitted to:
*Daryl Green*, Rare Books and Special Collections
<https://www.ifla.org/rare-books-and-special-collections> Standing
Committee Member
Email: daryl.green(a)magd.ox.ac.uk
Abstracts should include name and affiliation of proposer, a precis of the
proposed paper, and confirmation that if shortlisted the speaker will be
able to attend the IFLA WLIC 2019 in Athens.
Important dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: *5 March 2019*
Deadline for response: *19 March 2019*
Please note:
At least one of the paper’s authors must be* present* to deliver a summary
of the paper during the program in Athens. Abstracts should only be
submitted with the understanding that the expenses of attending the
conference will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of
accepted papers.
All papers that are presented at the WLIC 2019 will be made available
online via the IFLA Library <http://library.ifla.org/> under the Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 license
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>.
Authors of accepted papers must complete the IFLA Authors’ Permission Form
<http://forms.ifla.org/node/add/wlic-authors-permission-form>.
All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel,
accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No
financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation letter
<https://2019.ifla.org/congress-registration-information/letter-of-invitation-visa-requirements/>
can
be issued to author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers.
Congress Participation Grants:
List of opportunities for support is available on the Conference
Participation Grants
<https://2019.ifla.org/congress-information/conference-participation-grants/>