PROGRAMME
Hidden Collections: Revealed
Rare Books & Special Collections Group Annual Study Conference,
Wednesday 2nd to Friday 4th September, 2015
London venues: Friends House; Lambeth Palace; British Library
Weds 2nd
Friends House, Euston Road
12-2:00 pm
Lunch
Registration
12:45-1:45
Optional viewing of Friends House collections – Tabitha Driver
Session 1: Keynote and overview
2:15–2:40
1: Discovering collections for the Directory - Karen Attar, Editor
and Rare Books Librarian, Senate House Library, University of
London
2:40-3:10
2: Shining a light on hidden collections: Mapping the scale of
the challenge. David Prosser, RLUK
3:20-3:45
Tea Break
Session 2: Uncatalogued collections
3:45-4:05
1: The rediscovered treasures of The London Library - Dunia
Garcia-Ontiveros, the London Library
4:05-4:25
2: Do make do with what you have: lessons learned from
creative models for retrospective cataloguing” - Daryl Green, St
Andrews
4:25 – 4:45
3: Student Interns and Rare Books Cataloguing: the Edinburgh
Experience - Elizabeth Quarmby Lawrence
4:45 – 5:15
Optional viewing of Friends House collections – Tabitha Driver
5:00-7:00
Break
7:00-7:50
DINNER at British Library
Thurs 3rd
Lambeth Palace Library
Session 2: ‘Open for research’
The session will with a short welcome from Giles Mandelbrote,
Librarian and Archivist, Lambeth Palace Library
9:30-10:00
1: Freemasonry unmasked: the Library and Museum of
Freemasonry - Martin Cherry, Freemason’s Library
10:00-10:30
2: Hidden but not always intentionally secret: treasures within
defence libraries and archives - John Pearce, Deputy Librarian,
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
10:30-11:00
3: It’s not what you know… - Association of Pall Mall Libraries:
Kay Walters, The Athenaeum ; Sian Prosser, Royal Astronomical
Society ; Renae Satterley, Middle Temple Library.
11:00
Break
Session 4: ‘Under wraps’
11:30-12:00
1: Embargoed collections – Helen Potter, FOI Centre, The
National Archives
12:00-12:30
2: Collecting and curating for the public: the Cardiff Rare Books
Collection - Karen Pierce, Cardiff University
12:30 – 1:00
AGM
1:00 pm
Lunch and tour of Lambeth Palace Library
2:00-5:30
Visits: Please indicate your choice of visit on the booking form.
Tate Prints and Drawings Room
Chelsea College of Art Special Collections
St. Paul’s Cathedral Library
Westminster Abbey
Kings College Special Collections
Guildhall Library
Wellcome Library
Royal College of Physicians
6.30-7.30
RECEPTION
7.30-11.30
FORMAL CONFERENCE DINNER – Guard Room
After-dinner speaker: Charles Sebag-Montefiore
Fri 4th Sept
British Library
Session 5: Uncovering your collections - promotion
9:15-9:35
1: The potential of exhibitions to bring hidden collections into
the lime-light: ‘Comics Unmasked’ at the British Library – Adrian
Edwards, Head, Printed Heritage Collections, British Library
9:35-9:55
2: So is it just old books? Creating the Living Library – Lara
Haggerty, Innerpeffray Library
9:55-10:15
3: Tales of Empire: the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Library Collection at King’s College London – Katie Sambrook,
Head of Special Collections, Kings College London
10:30
BREAK
Session 6: Beyond the library
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:40
1: Handling Handel: the Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the
Foundling Museum – Katharine Hogg, Librarian, Foundling
Museum
2: Discovering Provincial Shakespeare with the British Library
Playbill Collection- Hannah Manktelow, PhD Student
11:40-12:00
3: “The Dead Yet Speaking”: how a hidden private collection
helps some mute books to talk – Mark Byford, Private Collector
12:15-1:00
Conference Round-up/Open Forum
1:00-2:00
LUNCH in British Library CC
2:00-3:30
Optional tour of British Library
Walking tour with Alice Ford-Smith (£6.00 pp, max. 25)