About this Event
This conference, from CILIP's Library and Information History Group, considers the historic control of information, such as through censorship, the removal of books from shelves and the removal of librarians from libraries. While such issues are at the forefront of our minds, the practice of book banning or restrictions on access to material is nothing new. Libraries have come under attack throughout history, governments have influenced the contents of their collections, and plenty of librarians have self-censored what they felt was unsuitable material.
For all queries about the conference, please contact Kathryn Peak at [email protected]
Agenda
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Registration
🕑: 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Welcome and opening remarks
🕑: 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Emma Sibbald, Trinity College, Oxford
Info: “She makes each place where she comes a Library”: women users of Oxbridge university libraries, 1600-1850
🕑: 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Gabriella Reyes, University College London
Info: Cataloguing the Empire: Classification as Colonial Project
🕑: 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian, University of Oxford
Info: Keynote
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Lunch and tours of the National Library of Scotland
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Fiona Mossman, Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service
Info: A brief history of access to legal information in Scotland
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Alana Farrell, University of Birmingham
Info: The foundations and impacts of over a century of abortion information censorship in Ireland
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
David McMenemy and Steven Buchanan
Info: David McMenemy, University of Glasgow and Steven Buchanan, University of Stirling; Preservation of intellectual freedom: historical reflections on the censorship challenges faced by public libraries
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Closing remarks
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 50.00
