Educational Programs | November 30, 2020

ILAB Hosts Webinar “Wrapping up 2020”

Courtesy of ILAB

In April earlier this year, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers held a webinar with booksellers from across the globe to look at the immediate effect of the COVID pandemic on the rare book trade.
 
Since April, staff was furloughed, came back and was sent home again as some countries are now experiencing a new wave of infections and restrictions. Bookshops were boarded off and later reopened under strict hygienic measures. Some are closed again. Institutions shifted their budgets to 2021, some demanded much longer admin time than usual, others only recently moved their staff out of home office. Nearly all book fairs were cancelled and the concept of virtual fairs gained momentum. Online platforms saw a major increase in traffic and customers.
 
How has the rare book trade adapted to this new landscape eight months on?

How did booksellers handle this extreme situation and what have we learned we can share with our colleagues?

Can we take some positives from 2020 and apply to a post-COVID world?
 
Sally Burdon, ILAB President and moderator of the event, will speak again to:

  • Mario Giupponi, Italy
  • Brad Johnson, US
  • Pom Harrington, UK
  • Ryu Sato, Japan
  • Hervé Valentin, France
  • and Sibylle Wieduwilt, Germany

7th December 2020 at 1pm London time

Further sample times:

  • Los Angeles: 5am
  • New York: 8am
  • London: 1pm
  • Berlin, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Stockholm: 2pm
  • Moscow: 4pm
  • Tokyo: 10pm
  • Canberra: 00:00 midnight

Please use the following link and register (only name and email address necessary): https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cbV9YfCeT1-ehbIvej9cGA
 
The webinar will take place in English language.

Further information via the ILAB Office:
Angelika Elstner
Executive Secretary  
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers - ILAB
editor@ilab.org
+27 76 402 39 77

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