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Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 16:20:42 -0500
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Subject: ARCL Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference
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The following may be of interest to Maps-L subscribers, especially those in
the vicinity of Chicago.
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and
Research Libraries (a division of ALA) is sponsoring a preconference in
Chicago, July 5-7, immediately before the ALA Annual Meeting. The
preconference will focus on trends in visual culture studies and how we can
best serve those who use visual information in our collections. In a
series of plenary session dialogues, scholars and librarians will explore
scholarly trends in visual studies and discuss the challenges and
opportunities offered by proliferating electronic tools and formats.
More complete information is available at
http://outreach.lib.uic.edu/rbms2000. The preconference registration fee
is $195 for ACRL members; $240 for non-members; $75 for students. The
deadline for preregistration is this Friday, June 2, 2000; a $50 late fee
will be assessed thereafter. Attendance is limited to 300.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Keynote speaker George H. Roeder, Jr., Professor of Liberal Arts at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will set the stage for plenaries on
photography, film, and maps by reviewing the growth of scholarly interest
in visual culture. Other plenary speakers include
David Woodward, Arthur H. Robinson Professor of Geography at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison;
Ron Grim, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress;
Peter Bacon Hales, Professor and University Scholar in the Department
of Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago;
Amy Rule, Archivist, Center for Creative Photography, University of
Arizona;
Sid Huttner, Head of Special Collections, University of Iowa;
Tom Gunning, Professor of Art History, Cinema and Media Studies
Program, University of Chicago;
Helena Zinkham, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress;
and summing up,
Susan Allen, Chief Librarian of the Getty Research Library.
Complementing the plenaries will be six seminars and eleven short paper
presentations.
SEMINARS
Collecting the Web: Issues of Collection Development, Preservation and
Access. Moderator: Steve Ferguson, Princeton University. Presenters:
Rebecca Schulte, University of Kansas; Jerome Niebaum, University of
Kansas; James Weinheimer, Princeton University.
Building Collections of Artists' Books in Research Libraries Moderator:
James D. Fox, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Presenters: Marcia Reed,
The Getty Research Institute; Sandra Kroupa, University of Washington.
Preliminary Analysis of the RBMS Membership Survey. Moderator: Suzy
Taraba. Presenters: RBMS Membership Committee members. In 1998, the RBMS
Membership Committee undertook a survey of membership, supported by an
Initiative Fund grant from ACRL. Committee members will present an
analysis of the results and discuss implications for the section.
On With the Show! Creating Effective Web Exhibitions Using Special
Collections Materials. Moderator: Diane Shaw, Smithsonian Institution
Libraries. Presenters: Matthew Cook, Chicago Historical Society; Russell
Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles; Martin Kalfatovic,
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
>From Rare to Well Done: Lessons Learned in Burnt Book Treatment and
Institutional Politics Moderator: Isaac Gewirtz, General Theological
Seminary (New York); Presenter: Deborah Wender, Northeast Document
Conservation Center.
Educating Special Collections Professionals: From Programs to Practice.
Moderator: Michele V. Cloonan, University of California, Los Angeles.
Presenters: Louise S. Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Roberta
Shaffer and David B. Gracy II, University of Texas; Helen R. Tibbo,
UNC-Chapel Hill; H. Thomas Hickerson, Cornell University Libraries.
SHORT PAPERS
"Preservation of and Access to the Dubois Collection: A Case Study"
Georgia Barnhill, American Antiquarian Society
"Mining the Poster Image: Cataloging Practices at the Library of Congress"
Greg Marcangelo, Library of Congress
"Revealing History Through Digitization: The Study of Papyri at the
University of Michigan" Kathryn L. Beam, University of Michigan
"Books a Century Ago -- Much More Visual than Just the Covers" Marilyn L.
Barth, Catholic University of America
"Picturing Local History: Nineteenth-century New Orleans on Sheet Music
Covers" Florence Jumonville, University of New Orleans
"Benefits of an On-line Bookplate Catalog" Christian Dupont, University of
Notre Dame
"The Challenge of an Artist's Library: The Cleveland Public Library's
Stewardship of Visual Information in the William Sommer Library" Ann
Olzewski and Stephen Zietz, Cleveland Public Library
"Norwegian American Imprints: The Immigrants' Story as Reflected in the
Covers of Their Books" Susanne Nevin, St. Olaf College
"A Science of Shadows: Carbon Dust Illustrations from the Herrick
Collection" Susan B. Case, University of Kansas
" When Is a Book More Than a Book (And Less Than a Book): Providing Access
to Nineteenth-Century Canvassing Outfits" Lynne Farrington, University of
Pennsylvania
"Imaging American: A Multi-institutional Digital Library Project Organized
by Yale University" Max Marmor, Yale University
WORKSHOPS
As of this morning, space was still available in each of the two workshops
being offered on Wednesday, July 5. The workshops are MARC Cataloging of
Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early-Modern Manuscripts with
instructor Gregory A. Pass ($100); and Cataloging Rare Serials, with
instructors Jane Gillis and Juliet McLaren ($45).
RECEPTIONS
The preconference will open on Wednesday evening with a reception at the
renowned Newberry Library, an architectural as well as intellectual
landmark in Chicago. On Thursday evening, a buffet reception will be held
at the Chicago Historical Society in its historic Lincoln Park setting. On
Friday evening, a gala closing reception sponsored by the Antiquarian
Booksellers Association of America will be held at the Columbia College
Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts in conjunction with a book fair and
demonstrations of hand bookbinding, papermaking, and printing.
ACCOMMODATIONS
The preconference hotel will be the Inter-Continental, a deluxe landmark
hotel located on the Magnificent Mile. (It is also an ALA Conference
hotel.) The hotel's historic South Tower, originally built in1929 as the
private, men-only Medinah Athletic Club, was commissioned by the Medinah
Nobles, an affiliate of the Shriners with purported roots in the Middle
East. Its exotic design reflects these presumed origins: a gold onion dome
adorns the top and Assyrian and Egyptian figures carved by Leon Harmart
(1866-1936) grace the facade. Appropriately, given the preconference theme,
the hotel's meeting spaces offer an visually entertaining array of design
schemes, ranging from an English Tudor Hall to a Spanish Tea Court to a
5-story Stair Hall of Lions. More information about the hotel and its
amenities is available at http://chicago.interconti.com/index.html.
The cost of hotel accommodations is not included in the Preconference
registration fee. A special conference rate has been arranged for RBMS
Preconference attendees. Preconference reservations for the Hotel
Inter-Continental must be made through the ALA Travel Desk.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Addiitonal inforamtion is available at http://outreach.lib.uic.edu/rbms2000
. If you are unable to access the webpages and have further questions,
please contact me at [log in to unmask] or 225/388-6547; fax 225/334-1695.
Elaine Smyth
Chair, RBMS Preconference Program Planning Committee
Curator, Special Collections
LSU Libraries
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-3300
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