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42nd annual Rare Book & Manuscript Conference



Conference Announcement. Cross-Posted. Please excuse any duplication

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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
June 12-15, 2001, San Francisco and Berkeley, California

The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and
Research Libraries, a Division of the American Library Association, is
pleased to announce the 42nd annual Rare Books and Manuscript conference,
which will take place on June 12--15, 2001 at the Fairmont Hotel in San
Francisco.  Entitled "The Twentieth Century" the conference will explore
the challenges and opportunities librarians, curators and archivists face
as builders of twentieth-century research collections.  The program will
examine collecting practices, formats, and constituencies, along with the
evolutionary cultural and technological changes that bear upon the nature
of contemporary recorded information.

Paper sessions will explore the issues confronted by research libraries as
they document twentieth-century culture in partnership with the academy.
Papers topics will include: the relationship between institutional
collection-building and scholarship; documenting the history of computer
science and technology; changes in the patterns of literary collecting; the
challenge of managing multiple formats and mediums; legal aspects of
building and disseminating collections; and the future of research
artifacts in the age of digital information.

Program Speakers
Samuel Brylawski, Library of Congress Center for Recorded Sound
Penny Pittman Cobey, The J. Paul Getty Trust
Paul Duguid, University of California, Berkeley & Xerox Parc
Stephen Enniss, Emory University
Peter B. Hirtle, Cornell University
Susan M. Kornfield, Partner, Bodman, Longley & Dahling LLP
Henry Lowood, Stanford University
Annette Melville, National Film Preservation Foundation
Diane Middlebrook, Stanford University
Libbie Rifkin, Folger Shakespeare Library
Marvin J. Taylor, New York University

A registration form and additional details about the RBMS 2001 conference,
including accommodations, speakers, tours, seminars, workshops,
exhibitions, receptions, and local information is available on the
conference Web site at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/RBMS/index.html
Inquiries about the conference can be sent to Katherine Reagan, Program
Chair (kr33@cornell.edu) or to local arrangements co-chairs Theresa
Salazar, University of California at Berkeley
(tsalazar@library.berkeley.edu) and John Hawk at the University of San
Francisco (hawkj@usfca.edu).

Katherine Reagan
Curator of Rare Books
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY  14853

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