{"id":2809,"date":"2015-10-16T20:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2015-10-16T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:20:13","slug":"what-special-collections-staff-are-doing-beth-kilmarx-attends-the-international-federation-of-library-associations-and-institutions-ifla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2015\/10\/16\/what-special-collections-staff-are-doing-beth-kilmarx-attends-the-international-federation-of-library-associations-and-institutions-ifla\/","title":{"rendered":"What Special Collections staff are doing: Beth Kilmarx attends The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/roundtable-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2811 aligncenter\" alt=\"roundtable photo\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/roundtable-photo.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curator of Rare Books, Beth Kilmarx, attended the annual conference of The\u00a0International\u00a0Federation of\u00a0Library\u00a0Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in Cape Town, South Africa in August. Ms. Kilmarx serves as the American Libraries Association Rare Books and Manuscripts Section representative to IFLA.<\/p>\n<p>While at IFLA, a satellite meeting convened:\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialcollections.uct.ac.za\/sc\/ifla-satellite-meeting\">Managing and Promoting Special Collections in Africa: the Bleek-Lloyd Collection and Beyond<\/a>, s<\/em>ponsored by IFLA\u2019s Rare Books and Special Collections Section,\u00a0\u00a0Ms. Kilmarx moderated the panel discussion:\u00a0Providing Access to African Cultural Heritage.\u00a0The panel discussion explored the cultural and political issues around providing access to African cultural heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Read Ms. Kilmarx&#8217;s report:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iflarbscs.hypotheses.org\/61\">Managing and Promoting Special Collections in Africa: RBSC\u2019s IFLA WLIC 2015 Preconference Satellite Meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifla.org\/\">Read more about IFLA here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curator of Rare Books, Beth Kilmarx, attended the annual conference of The\u00a0International\u00a0Federation of\u00a0Library\u00a0Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in Cape Town, South Africa in August. Ms. Kilmarx serves as the American Libraries Association Rare Books and Manuscripts Section representative to IFLA. While at IFLA, a satellite meeting convened:\u00a0Managing and Promoting Special Collections in Africa: the Bleek-Lloyd Collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-what-are-sc-staff-doing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}