Meeting with manuscripts, today and tomorrow. Roma, 26-28/05/2010

Meeting with manuscripts, today and tomorrow. 4th Conference of LIBER Manuscript Librarians Group. Roma, 26-28 /05/2010

Informazioni

Programma

Wednesday, 26 May

12.00 - 14.00 Registration. An exhibition of manuscripts will be held in the Conference room; 14.00 - 15.00 Opening session: Welcome by Osvaldo Avallone, Director of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma; Presentation of the Conference by André Bouwman (Leiden University Library), chair of LIBER Manuscript Librarians Group and Jutta Weber (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz), secretary of the Group, on behalf of the organizing committee; Francesca Niutta (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma), The National Library of Rome and its manuscript collections; 15.00 - 17.20 Session 1. Sharing information in Europe: National Reports. Chair: André Bouwman (Leiden University Library). In this session ten ‘reporters’ will outline manuscript activities in their countries, focusing on two or three major events or developments. The short presentations are based on the national background and progress reports that will be published on the website (http://liber-manuscripts.kb.nl/index.html). Countries without presentations at the Berlin Conference of 2007 will be given priority. So far presentations have been confirmed for Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. 15.00 - 16.00 Introduction. Reports from the libraries; 16.00 - 16.20 Coffee break; 16.20 - 17.20 Reports from the libraries. Conclusion; 17.30 - 18.30 Visit to the Biblioteca Nazionale; 18.30 - 20.00 Welcome cocktail offered by the Biblioteca Nazionale

Thursday, 27 May

9.15 - 11.10 Session 2. Born-digital materials. Chair: Ivan Boserup (Royal Library, Copenhagen): 9.15 -9.30 Keynote of the chair; 9.30 -9.50 Susan E. Thomas (Bodleian Library, Oxford), Curating born-digital archives at the Bodleian Library; 9.50 - 10.10 Giovanni Bergamin - Paola Pirolo (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze), The conservation of born digital works: the Italian experience and perspectives; 10.10 - 10.30 Jamie Andrews (British Library, London), The “Digital lives” project; 10.30 - 10.50 Claus Jensen (Royal Library, Copenhagen), A pragmatic solution to the acquisition and archiving of digital born materials: letting scholars auto-archive while they are alive; 10.50 - 11.10 Discussion; 11.10 - 11.30 Coffee break; 11.30 - 13.00 Session 3. Networks of medieval and modern manuscripts within and outside their context: new cooperation models for librarians, archivists and scholars. Chair: Jutta Weber (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz): 11.30 - 11.40 Keynote of the chair; 11.40 - 12.00 Thierry Delcourt (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris), The Roman de la Rose digital library: a collaborative American-French project; 12.00 - 12.20 Toni Bernhart (Universität der Künste zu Berlin), Alexander von Humboldt and the network of his correspondents; 12.20 - 13.00 Discussion; 15.00 - 17.00 Visit to historical libraries and archives in Rome; 19.30 - 20.00 Visit to a special site where the conference dinner will take place; 20.00 Conference dinner

Friday, 28 May

9.30-10.40 Session 4. Old and new audiences for manuscripts. Chair: Scot McKendrick (British Library, London); 9.30 - 9.40 Keynote of the chair; 9.40 - 10.00 Marco Palma (Università di Cassino), Which audiences for manuscripts?; 10.00- 10.20 Roger Walsh (British Library, London), (TBA); 10.20 - 10.40 Discussion; 10.40 - 11.00 Coffee break; 11.00 - 12.30 Session 5. Training of manuscript librarians. Chair: Bernard Meehan (Trinity College Library, Dublin); 11.00 - 11.10 Keynote of the chair; 11.10 - 11.30 Peter Kamber (Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Luzern), Training skills for curators of medieval manuscripts in Europe; 11.30 - 11.50 Isabella Ceccopieri (Biblioteca Casanatense, Roma), Modern manuscripts: old and new skills for curators; 11.50 - 12.10 Volker Kaukoreit (Österreichisches Literaturarchiv, Wien), The practice of education and training concerning modern literary estates in Austria and Germany; 12.10 - 12.30 Discussion; 12.30 - 13.30 Closing session