An Historic Libraries Forum workshop on the importance of researching and recording the provenance of books will be held on April 29th 2010 at the Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London. Speakers will include the acknowledged authority David Pearson, Director of Guildhall Libraries, Alison Walker, David Shaw and Alison Wilson. Places are limited to 15 people. The cost for the day, excluding lunch, will be £35.
The booking form is available here.Enquiries to Alison Wilson.
The Historic Libraries Forum held its latest workshop on cataloguing antiquarian and early printed collections on January 25th 2010 at St John's College, Cambridge.
These courses are aimed at those with little or no formal training in historical bibliography and antiquarian cataloguing. The workshop looked at practical and technical skills, such as establishing bibliographical format, collational formula and book structure, alongside some of the more ephemeral skills a cataloguer needs to tackle difficulties with dating items and recording provenance and binding information. The course was overbooked and in view of the obvious demand the Forum intends to continue running courses, the next probably in London in the Summer.
The annual meeting for 2009 was held on Tuesday 17th November at the Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD. Topics included collection security, the insurers' perspective and security marking and there were a number of useful case studies from members.
The Historic Libraries Forum arranged a workshop on music cataloguing held at Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall), Cambridge, on Monday 21st September 2009. The course was based on the Western classical tradition and dealt with printed and recorded music. There was advice both on cataloguing and dating antiquarian music.
The Historic Libraries Forum held another of its popular series of day-long workshops on cataloguing antiquarian and early printed collections on 7th July 2009 at the Deansgate branch of The John Rylands Library in Manchester.
Thursday, 20th November, 2008 at the Wellcome Institute, 183 Euston Road, London.
The conference was designed to help small and independent libraries put in place structures and guidelines for dealing with disasters of all shapes and sizes. Practical measures for prevention and recovery were discussed.
A new day-long workshop, A Novice’s Introduction to the Identification, Dating and Preservation of Bookbindings. The workshop was hosted at the Deansgate site of the John Rylands University Library in Manchester, and was aimed at those with no background knowledge of binding history or identification. It included a tour of the Conservation Studio.
Cataloguing antiquarian, special and early printed collections
The Historic Libraries Forum in collaboration with the Bibliographical Standards Committee held two day-long workshops on cataloguing antiquarian and early printed collections on March 4th at New Hall, Cambridge, and on April 3rd at The British Museum. These courses were aimed at those with little or no formal training in historical bibliography and antiquarian cataloguing.
The annual meeting for 2007 was held on Thursday 15th November at the Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD
The annual meeting for 2006 was held on Thursday 16 November in the Weston Room, Maughan Library, King’s College London, Chancery Lane. The day covered improving access to buildings and collections, security issues, virtual access through websites and email and the importance of access as a factor in securing grants. Tours of the Maughan Library and Foyle Special Collections with Katie Sambrook, Special Collections Librarian, and colleagues were a highlight.
The Historic Libraries Forum, in collaboration with the Rare Books Group and Rare Books in Scotland, held two day-long workshops on cataloguing antiquarian and early printed collections on May 24th and May 25th 2006. These courses, aimed at those with little or no formal training in historical bibliography and antiquarian cataloguing, were heavily over-booked and feedback was very positive. In view of the obvious demand, the Forum hopes to run two more courses in London in late 2006 / early 2007. People on the waiting list will have priority.
This was a meeting about all kinds of manuscripts and related material found in libraries, including personal papers, scholarly documents, correspondence and the library's own archives. In addition it covered some of the initiatives in the archive world to which libraries could contribute. The day ended with a talk on the British Museum archives.
The Historic Libraries Forum Autumn meeting for 2004 focused on automation for the small specialist library. Speakers discussed the issues faced when automating a small library for the first time, with papers on the fundamentals of automation and on the practicalities of running an automation project. The afternoon session consisted of a series of brief presentations from users of some of the different systems discussed, then an open question and answer session. The day concluded with a visit to the British Museum Reading Room for a demonstration of British Museum catalogue, presented by Joanna Bowring, Head of Libraries and Information. The Annual General Meeting of the Historic Libraries Forum also took place during the day.
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