The politics of rare books

Registration will close on 14 September. About this event Important collections of items in libraries – just as in galleries and museums – often have historical connections to the trade in enslaved people. However, conversations about provenance in libraries are at an early stage when compared to the work being done other areas of the heritage sector. Many librarians and curators have begun to do the internal work of learning about the provenances of their collections and communicating this to the public; critical library and information scholars have begun thinking about how provenance might be best recorded in metadata and addressing the challenges of ethical cataloguing practices; book historians and humanities academics, especially those in English and History, have long been intereste