The IRCDL conference series has been launched and initially sponsored by DELOS, an EU FP6 Network of Excellence on digital libraries, together with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy. The Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua has sponsored the event for the initial six years.
Over the years IRCDL has become a self-sustainable event that is sponsored and supported by the Italian Digital Libraries Community.
IRCDL is now a yearly deadline for Italian researchers on Digital Libraries related topics.