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RBMS Preconference, "Beyond Words: Visual Information in Special Collections"



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The following may be of interest to subscribers, especially those in the
vicinity of Chicago.  Please note that the deadline for registration is the
end of this week.

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.    Entitled
"Beyond Words: Visual Information in Special Collections," the
preconference will focus on how librarians and archivists 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;

     Tom Gunning, Professor of Art History, Cinema and Media Studies
Program, University of Chicago;
     Sid Huttner, Head of Special Collections, University of Iowa;

     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