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From: Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie(a)folger.edu>
Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM
Registration and housing for the RBMS 2010 Preconference are now open!
"Join or Die. Collaboration in Special Collections" will be held
Tuesday-Friday, June 22-25, 2010, in Philadelphia. In addition to three
plenary sessions, each focusing on a different type of collaboration in
special collections, there will be plenty of seminars, case studies, and
discussion sessions to educate, provoke, and delight. Three full-day
workshops are offered on Tuesday, as will a conference orientation and
introduction to RBMS, an opening reception, and the popular ABAA
Booksellers' Showcase.
The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
(PACSCL) is handling local arrangements, and they've pulled out all the
stops in arranging tours, receptions (including hosting us for a special
reception at the Union League of Philadelphia), Restaurant Night, and
especially for us, a Book Arts Open House and Reception at the
University of the Arts.
The online and paper registration forms are available under the
registration tab on the preconference website at
http://rbms.info/conferences/preconferences/2010/index.shtml. The
Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia will serve as the official preconference
hotel; the discounted group rate is available on a
first-come-first-served basis. Please see
http://rbms.info/conferences/preconferences/2010/accommodations.shtml
for details.
Scholarships are available for first-time attendance of library,
archive, and museum professionals and students, and--this year for the
first time--to qualified support staff, with particular consideration
given to applicants from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. We
ask for everyone's help in spreading the news to staff in your home
institutions by forwarding this email.
Much more information is available on the preconference website
<http://rbms.info/conferences/preconferences/2010/index.shtml> , and
more details will be added as we get closer to June. Two preconferences
in the last three years have sold out, and we wouldn't be surprised if
workshops and tours fill up, too, so it's best not to dawdle. See you
in Philadelphia!
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Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
RBMS chair 2009-2010 | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol St., S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 | 202.675-0369
(phone) 202.675-0328 (fax) | djleslie(a)folger.edu |www.folger.edu