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The 2013 ALA/ACRL/Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Preconference
"O Rare: Performance in Special Collections"
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sunday-Wednesday, June 23-26, 2013

CALL FOR DISCUSSION TOPICS

We are seeking discussion topics that complement the conference theme. Please feel free to propose ideas and/or a potential moderator (or moderators). Have a topic, but no moderator in mind? We can help you find one. Better yet, consider jumping in and volunteering to help us to finalize the program.

The 2013 ALA/ACRL/Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Preconference
"O Rare: Performance in Special Collections"
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sunday-Wednesday, June 23-26, 2013

CALL FOR TALKS! (Due November 27)

We are seeking submissions that address the conference theme for any of the
following content types:
* Scholarly, research papers about materials, OR high-level work about libraries
* Case studies: studies of how things are done well at a library
* Reports, information exchange about collections and/or libraries.

Submissions may also vary in length:

The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies announces:

American Book Collectors & Collecting from 1940 to the Present

A $1000 award for an original essay of 3000 to 4000 words by a writer aged 30 years or younger on any aspect of book or manuscript collecting by private collectors or institutions in the United States from 1940 to the present.

The essay should be based on original source materials and documented by appropriate endnotes and citations.

I am pleased to announce that submission for the 2012 Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards are being accepted until Monday October 15, 2012. The awards are given annually in recognition of excellence in the publication of catalogs and brochures that accompany exhibitions of library and archival materials, as well as for electronic exhibitions of such materials. The prizes are administered and awarded by the ALA/ACRL/RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee.

At Rare Book School librarians, scholars, collectors and random book-mad civilians get a chance to see jaw-dropping masterpieces of printing...

Click here to read the article in its entirety.

Please click on the links to view slide presentations of some of the Plenaries/Seminars at RBMS FUTURES!

Plenaries:
Bethany Nowviskie plenary: http://nowviskie.org/2012/reality-bytes/
Matthew Kirschenbaum: http://rbms.info/conferences/preconfdocs/2012/Plenary1Kirschenbaum.pdf
Jon Voss: http://www.slideshare.net/jonvoss/rbms-lodlam-presentation

Collections Assessment Seminar
Handout: http://www.slideshare.net/oclcr/collections-assessment-handout
Martha Conway presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/oclcr/work-it-babythe-power-of-collections-ass...

Anaheim, June 22-26, 2012

Please visit here to see a list of the meeting times for RBMS committees and other groups at ALA Annual, with room assignments. As always, meeting times and rooms are subject to change. Please do be sure to check your convention program to confirm the final schedule.

For more information about ALA Annual, please see the main 2012 Annual Conference page

ACRL/RBMS Guidelines for Interlibrary and Exhibition Loan of Special Collections Materials

In partnership with the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of ACRL is offering scholarships to subsidize first-time preconference attendance by professional librarians and qualified paraprofessionals and students.

The 2012 RBMS Preconference will explore a multiplicity of futures for the rare book, manuscript, and special collections community. How are special collections materials being discovered and used today? How will they be discovered and used tomorrow? Who will our users be and what will they need? What forms will special collections materials take? Join us to learn, discuss, share, and contemplate because the future is now.