What is Library History? What is Information History? IFLA WLIC 2026 Satellite Meeting
The IFLA Library Theory and Research Section and the Library History Special Interest Group will host the Satellite Meeting at Pusan National University of the Republic of Korea in Busan, Korea, on 7th August (morning) 2026.
Celebrating a 200 year long history: The State Library of New South Wales, Australia
Learn a little about the history of the State Library of New South Wales from Mitchell librarian Richard Neville as the library celebrates 200 hundred years of library service https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/shorter-history-state-library-nsw. You can find a little more about the foundation of the Mitchell collection here https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research-and-collections/about-collections/david-scott-mitchell-collection.Richard has also authored The Library That Made Me: 200 Years of the State Library of NSW in celebration of this milestone. If you are not familiar with the library here is a little more information about its collections https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/200-years-on-display Or maybe you would like to learn a little about the ghosts that haunt the library https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/ghosts-collection !