2025 CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group Conference - Bookings now open!
Bookings are now open for the 2025 CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group conference.
The conference takes as its theme Systems, Standards and the Discoverability of Special Collections and will run online in the afternoons of 3-5 September.
The conference will look at new approaches, whether that’s adapting standards to meet local requirements or embracing new methods to enhance discoverability; we’ll discuss inclusivity as well as the use of AI for the creation of metadata.
Tickets for the conference will cost £10 for all three sessions. There is also a free unwaged/low salary option. Delegates should choose whichever category they prefer.
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Wednesday 3 September: New approaches
2.00 – 2.10pm: Tanya Kirk (St John’s College, Cambridge), Welcome
2.10 – 2.40pm: Ben Cornish and Grace Touzel (Natural History Museum), …but our wants are endless: a systematic approach to prioritising rare books metadata creation and management at the NHM, London
2.40 – 3.10pm: Ross Melvin (SOAS), Transforming the SOAS manuscript metadata: approaches to complex catalogue data
3.10 – 3.40pm: Alison Hazelaar, Kim Taylor, Trevor Hough (University of Leeds), Embracing new approaches to enhance discoverability and use of rare print materials at the University of Leeds
Thursday 4 September: Inclusive cataloguing
2.00 – 2.05pm: Welcome
2.05 – 2.35pm: Karen Pierce and Vicky Stallard (Cardiff University), Forming an anti-racist and inclusive library catalogue
2.35 – 3.05pm: Dan Sheehy (National Library of Scotland), Sensitivity in literary archives: making assessments and managing access
3.05 – 3.35pm: Harriet Hale and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL), Hitting the MARC: cataloguing standards and the challenge of representation
3.35 – 4.05pm: Núria Ferran Ferrer and Miquel Centelles Velilla (Universitat de Barcelona) HerStory-NeSyAI: Designing Inclusive Metadata with Hybrid AI for Discoverability and Epistemic Justice
Friday 5 September: AI and metadata transformation
2.00 – 2.05pm: Welcome
2.05 – 2.35pm: Amelie Roper and Suzanne Paul (University of Cambridge), Introducing the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH)
2.35 – 3.05pm: Christine Megowan (University of Edinburgh) and Katie Birkwood (Royal College of Physicians, London), Interacting and influencing international standards: Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloguing and others
3.05 – 3.35pm: Carly Richardson and Jennie-Claire Crate (JISC), Enhancing discoverability and access for special collections: the role of Jisc’s Archives Hub and Library Hub in metadata transformation and aggregation
3.35 – 4.05pm: Anna-Maria Sichani (School of Advanced Study, University of London), Operationalising Responsible AI in cultural heritage: policies, practices and opportunities
4.05 – 4.15pm: Tanya Kirk (St John’s College, Cambridge), Closing remarks
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