Publications:
- Two not very new, but very interesting reports on exhibiting books and manuscripts: 'Text Messages', Museums Journal, 112/01 (3 Jan 2012), 22-27. (Link for subscribers only); National Library of Scotland, Exhibiting the Written Word (2011).
- This new book from the ALA Association of College & Research Libraries looks very interesting: Past or Portal? Enhancing Undergraduate Learning through Special Collections and Archives
- This report on the EEBO Text Creation Partnership (TCP) is very useful and informative in giving an insight into how the TCP works and what its future directions and uses might be.
- The Spring issue of RBM: A journal of rare books, manuscripts, and cultural heritage is now available.
- Lambeth Palace Library, Royal Devotion: Monarchy and the Book of Common Prayer, 1 May to 14 July, with an associated programme of expert talks (see lectures pdf link on the right)
- National Archives Olympics exhibition (online exhibition): a timeline of all the modern Olympics, with images of related documents.
- Eton College Library, 'Challenge and Change: acquisitions by the Eton College Library since 1965'. Free exhibition, access by appointment.
- The Birmingham Medical Institute has auctioned off half of its library, with the rest to be sold off in due course.
- West Sussex County Libraries want to sell 15 rare books via Sothebys.
Standards:
- Did you know that the preservation conditions British Standard, the much-mentioned BS5454:2000 has been changed into the guide PD5454:2012 pending the creation of a new European Standard. See consultation, announcement and discussions on the ARCHIVES-NRA mailing list.
Events:
- This term's Madgalen Library Seminar (Oxford) on 6 June sees James Carley speak on ‘John Foxe’s Library at Magdalen’. This is the second in a new series of seminars.
- The University of Reading Early Modern Research Centre is holding a colloquium on future directions in library history research on 8 June.
- The Book History Research Network is holding a one-day conference on book history, The Book Through Time, on 9 June.
- The IHR Seminar in the History of Libraries is visiting Lambeth Palace on 12 June.
- At the 13 June ILIG informal Professor Delger Borjiginwill talk about 'Preserving a culture: scripts, digitisation and librarianship from Inner Mongolia'.
- David McKitterick is giving a talk on seventeenth-century libraries for the Library and Information History group in Cambridge on 2 July. All are welcome.
- The CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group Annual Conference programme has been announced. 'Speaking Truth to Power: making special collections work in times of recession' is happening in Oxford on 12-14 September.
- The Archives and Records Association is holding a paper conservation day next November (yes, really). Places are very limited.
- Two new institutional blogs are worth keeping an eye on. Quaker Strongrooms in the blog of the Library of the Society of Friends and Back from the Stacks comes from Newnham College Library, Cambridge.
- Thick Description: Fingerprints, Sonnets, and Aboutness in Special Collections, from OCLC, muses on how we can increase access to collections by expanding where and how we describe them.
- Bloggers of the World Unite: Rare Book Bloggers and the Links They Build, a jointly-authored post by Brooke Palmieri and Daryl Green is a must-read post about the value of blogging about rare books.
- This is a great Pinterest board about What Archivists Do.
- The National Library of Scotland has digitised thousands of nineteenth-century English broadside ballads, and the Wellcome Library is digitising the papers of the pioneers of genetics.
- The catalogue of the archives of the United Reform Church, held as part of the Congregational Library at Dr Williams's Library is now available online.
- St Andrews University Library has been awarded funding to start working on a virtual-reality reconstruction of the medieval library.
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