Videos of the ILAB 2024 Symposium in Paris now online

ILAB SYMPOSIUM PARIS 2024
Libraries, Booksellers and Collectors discuss Provenance, Restitution and the Conservation of our Written Heritage

On 12th June 2024, ILAB, invited antiquarian booksellers, librarians, collectors and art market professionals to a one-day symposium in Paris at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), part of the Bibliothèque national de France, on the now vitally important issue of provenance and security.

This symposium followed those organised around similar themes in New York (Grolier Club) in 2019 and in Oxford (Bodleian Library) in 2022 and brought together an international panel of experts to address these crucial issues & highlight some of the realities of the rare book trade.
The event was organised and sponsored by ILAB with the support the French antiquarian booksellers association, Syndicat National de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne (SLAM).

Mario Giupponi, President of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and Jean-Marc Dechaud, President of the Syndicat National de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne (SLAM)

Cultural property protection and provenance research: The particular responsibility of German antiquarian booksellers and librarians
Dr Markus Brandis, Managing Director at Bassenge Book Auctions, Berlin & President of the German Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association, Verband Deutscher Antiquare

Sold in Italy. Examples of Italian Institutional Deaccessioning Revealed by the Rare Book Trade
Ariane Adeline, Proprietor of Livres anciens Ariane Adeline, Paris

The identification of provenance in libraries, between a legal and scientific challenge
Jean-Marc Chatelain, Director of the Rare Book Reserve of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Theft and spoliation of written heritage during the Second World War: provenance research and current issues
Dr Isabelle Rouge-Ducos, Palaeograph Archivist, Head Curator of Heritage, Researcher at the Mission for the Research and Restitution of Cultural Property Looted between 1933 and 1945, General Secretariat, Ministry of Culture

UNESCO’s tools for protecting cultural heritage and combating illicit trade
Louise Malecot, UNESCO - Associate Programme specialist at the Movable Heritage and Museums Unit

Institut Art & Droit: Presentation of the working group on provenance in the art market
Prof. Françoise Labarthe, Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Art & Droit
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Neither a stigma nor a secret - Why thefts and missing books need reporting
Presentation of the ILAB Missing Books Register
Angus O’Neill, Omega Bookshop, London & ILAB Vice President and Security Chair

Presentation of the new SLAM training institute at the École des Chartes
Anne Lamort, Anne Lamort Livres anciens, Honorary President of SLAM and Executive Director of the new SLAM Training Institute