It's not too late to book a place at the Library & Information History Group's annual one day conference, which will be held at University College London on 24 May. This year's conference takes the theme "Libraries under Threat" and we have a superb line-up of speakers for what promises to be a fascinating day.
We are delighted to welcome three international speakers (from the USA, Australia, and the Czech Republic). Topics covered will include the impact of digitisation on academic and special collections, historic libraries currently facing threats, and the ways in which libraries have faced threats in the past. For a full list of speakers see below:
* Professor Andrew Stauffer of the University of Virginia on the preservation of the printed book in libraries in the face of the digitisation of 19th century texts.
* Professor Laurel Brake, Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck, on historical newspapers and periodicals in British research libraries.
* John Crawford on what the Edzell library tells us about contemporary ideologies of public library provision and the library's potential as a museum of librarianship.
* Christine Penney on the threatened Hurd Library at Hartlebury Castle.
* Dr Sue Reynolds of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology on how the rules of an Antipodean library’s foundation in 1851 threaten its existence today.
* Simon Barron on Paul Otlet’s ill-fated Mundaneum.
* Zdeněk Uhlíř of the National Library of the Czech Republic on how digitisation may allow the reconstruction of historic collections.
* Karen Attar of Senate House Library on the University of London Library during the Second World War.
* John Powles of the Giving Voice Workshops on library campaign songs.
The conference fee is just £40 (inc VAT) for LIHG members and £52 (inc VAT) for non-members (fee includes annual membership of the Group). Lunch and refreshments provided. A student bursary is available.
For bookings contact:
Shauna Barrett,
Subject Librarian for Anthropology & Celtic,
UCL Library Services,
University College London,
Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT
[log in to unmask]
Booking forms may be downloaded from our website at www.lihg.org.
|