Pass It On: Preservation Week 2015 at UBC Library
By Clare Yow on April 14, 2015
Join UBC Library in a celebration of Preservation Week from April 26 – May 2, 2015. This annual event, created by the American Library Association (ALA) in 2010, aims at uniting communities through individual and collective efforts to preserve our personal and shared collections.
This year’s focus is on the Papal Bull, a legal decree written in Latin by Pope Innocent IV in 1245 and that was acquired by Rare Books and Special Collections in 2014. You are invited to a behind-the-scenes look at the acquisition, conservation, cataloguing, and digitization of this medieval manuscript.
All talks and the exhibition are free and open to the public. They will be held in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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Mon, Apr. 27
11 am – 12 pm
Parliamentary Classroom (Level 1, Rm 155)
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A Papal Bull at UBC Library
Speaker: Dr. Richard Pollard, UBC History Professor
With every document created having an intention, the historical circumstances surrounding the Papal Bull sheds light on the importance of such an artifact as a valuable teaching and research tool at UBC.
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12 pm – 12:30 pm
Parliamentary Classroom (155) |
Restoration of A Papal Bull
Speaker: Anne Lama, UBC Library Conservator
In order to understand how to properly preserve this medieval text for future generations, the goals of the Papal Bull restoration will be presented by the Library conservator.
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Wed, Apr. 29
11 am – 11:30 am
Lillooet Room (Level 3, Rm 301) |
Cataloguing A Papal Bull
Speaker: Susan Andrews, UBC Library Cataloguer
The conservation work on the Papal Bull has been completed, but how do we go about describing this document in the Library’s online catalogue, so that researchers may find it? Sue Andrews will give a cataloguer’s perspective on approaching a manuscript that is hundreds of years old.
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Fri, May 1
11 am – 12 pm
Parliamentary Classroom (155) |
Digitizing A Papal Bull
Speaker: Robert Stibravy, UBC Digital Projects Librarian
A look at how a Papal Bull issued by Pope Innocent IV in 1245, and acquired by UBC Library’s Rare Books & Special Collections division in 2014, was digitized and made available online by UBC Library’s Digitization Centre.
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May 1 – 31
Mon-Fri 10 am – 4 pm
Rare Books and Special Collections (Level 1, Rm 110) |
Papal Parchments and Blackletter Books, 1245 AD to UBC: How the Middle Ages Shaped the Way we Read
The Middle Ages were not a time of illiteracy or ignorance, but a time when the written word was used extensively. The very shapes of the letters we know today, in fact, were created in the Middle Ages. Using some recent acquisitions by UBC’s Rare Books (including the 13th-century Papal Bull), this exhibition will follow the development of Western writing, offering visitors a new appreciation of the words they read and write every day.
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This year’s focus is on the Papal Bull, a legal decree written in Latin by Pope Innocent IV in 1245 and that was acquired by Rare Books and Special Collections in 2014. You are invited to a behind-the-scenes look at the acquisition, conservation, cataloguing, and digitization of this medieval manuscript.