#heritagecollections — Public Fediverse posts

#TAROCH Coalition (Towards a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage), a collaborative effort to achieve the adoption of a #UNESCO standard-setting instrument to improve #openaccess to cultural #heritage

https://creativecommons.org/2024/11/01/creative-commons-launches-taroch-coalition-for-open-access-to-cultural-heritage/

#heritagecollections #valorization #openculture #openheritage

#IFLA joins Sister Organisations in Declaration on the Protection of Cultural #Heritage during armed #conflicts

https://www.ifla.org/news/declaration-on-protection-of-cultural-heritage-during-armed-conflicts/

#Libraries #HeritageCollections #Wars #War

ICCROM’s OCM Self-assessment Tool links heritage work with UN SDGs for sustainable impact.

https://www.iccrom.org/news/introducing-our-collections-matter-self-assessment-tool

#ICCROM
#SustainableDevelopmentGoals #SDG
#HeritageCollections
#CulturalHeritage
#Sustainability
#UN2030Agenda

Call for Papers: #Censorship and #Heritage Collections
(Hybrid symposium in Barcelona, Spain on October 7, 2024)

https://www.ifla.org/news/call-for-papers-censorship-and-heritage-collections/

#bannedbooks #minorities #libraries #heritagecollections #collections

Free #IFLA PRESCONS Webinar on #Bookbinding Practices:
"#Binding as #conservation: practices, evolution, and challenges for the future"

https://www.ifla.org/events/prescons-webinar-bookbinding/

#preservation #collections #libraries #heritagecollections #books

#Unesco has announced plans for what it says will be the first virtual #museum of stolen cultural artefacts, aimed at raising public awareness of trafficking and the unique importance of cultural #heritage.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/06/unesco-planning-virtual-museum-of-stolen-cultural-artefacts

👉 Right in the theme of #ULiège Library's #ErasmusWeek https://app.lib.uliege.be/stt/opening-up-our-heritage

#HeritageCollections #VirtualExhibitions #libraries #valorisation #promotion #digitalart #Digitalization
@Renaud__Adam

Call for participation - #Erasmus Week 2024 at #ULiège Library
➡️ Theme: "Opening up our #Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities in Digitising and Promoting Cultural and Research #Collections"

https://app.lib.uliege.be/stt/opening-up-our-heritage

Most enthusiastic to co-organize this new edition with my colleagues @Renaud__Adam and Cécile Oger!

#valorisation #promotion #digitization #libraries #ErasmusWeek #ErasmusStaffTraining #HeritageCollections

Global trends in digital #preservation: Outsourcing versus in-house practices

👉 "The meta-analysis of the final studies affirms a strong global preference of #libraries, #archives, and other cultural and memory organizations toward in-house activities for the preservation of their digital objects and collections compared to outsourcing digital preservation activities by third parties."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09610006231173461

#digitization #heritagecollections

Ancient #books in northern #Italy frozen to salvage them from #flood damage

👉 Ancient books and #manuscripts, some dating back to the 16th century, that have been affected by devastating #floods in the northern Italian region of #emiliaromagna are being stored in freezers in an effort to salvage them.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/25/ancient-books-in-northern-italy-frozen-to-salvage-them-from-flood-damage

#heritagecollections

#Trove secures funding as federal government comes to rescue of National Library of #Australia's digitised #archive

👉 Funding for the country's largest digitised archive has been announced, after months of the National #Library of Australia (#NLA) calling for more financial support.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-03/funding-for-trove-announced-by-federal-government/102177488

#heritagecollections #digitization #nationallibraries #libraries

Martyrdom of St Lambert from the magnificent Psalter of Lambert le Bègue (ca 1285-1290), part of #ULiège Library collections

👉 Psautier dit de Lambert le Bègue https://donum.uliege.be/handle/2268.1/1508

#Liège #BookHistory #Manuscript #DONum #heritagecollections #libraries #Manuscripts

via Renaud Adam https://twitter.com/Renaud__Adam/status/1641727397627084802?t=WxgjzKZsjqfaRcpMk3ZPaQ&s=19

7,548 digitized items from University of #Liège Library now part of #JSTOR Open Community Collections

https://www.jstor.org/site/university-of-liege/

#ULiège #HeritageCollections #Heritage #Digitization #libraries

Some digitized #heritage collections preserved at #ULiège #Library now part of #JSTOR's Open Community Collections:
✅ Archival materials
✅ Incunabula
✅ Manuscripts
✅ Maps
✅ Photographs
✅ Plans
(More to come)

https://www.jstor.org/site/university-of-liege/

#digitization #digitisation #Liège #libraries #heritagecollections #rarebooks

Gouache "Kieler #Weihnachtsmarkt" by painter Ernst Eitner (1867-1955), from the digitized collections of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesbibliothek
https://digibib.schleswig-holstein.de/startseite/trefferliste/detailseite?tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=313&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&tx_dlf%5Bpagegrid%5D=0&cHash=108d549f4858bc0d30da9fd7739c80c1
#Kiel #Germany #SchleswigHolstein #digitization #digitisation #heritageCollections #libraries #Christmas #Weihnachten

When #Russia invaded #Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic #libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians' sense of #identity. But Putin hadn't counted on the unbreakable spirit of the country's #librarians https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/04/our-mission-is-crucial-meet-the-warrior-librarians-of-ukraine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #StandWithUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar #Archives #Heritage #HeritageCollections