All sessions take place at Bally’s unless otherwise listed.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Scholarship Breakfast (by invitation)<\/p>\n – Sponsored by Atlas Systems<\/em> <\/em><\/p><\/div> <\/a>Registration<\/p><\/div> <\/a>Opening Plenary: Book as Archive<\/p>\n – Sponsored by Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers<\/em><\/p>\n Our opening plenary will focus on the artifact (i.e., the book, manuscript, and archive) as the fundamental unit central to our mission and to scholarship. Brian E. C. Schottlaender will address the topic from the perspective of a university library administrator and collector exploring the growing demands for innovation and collaboration. Andrew Stauffer will provide his view as a scholar researching the \u2018book as archive\u2019 and the impact of his discoveries on our work.<\/p>\n Moderator:\u00a0Nicole Bouch\u00e9,\u00a0Director,\u00a0Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library,\u00a0University of Virginia<\/p>\n Plenary Speaker Descriptions can be found at the 2014 Preconference homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> Beverage Break with Booksellers<\/p>\n – Sponsored by James Cummins Bookseller<\/em><\/p><\/div> <\/a>ABAA Booksellers’ Showcase<\/p><\/div> <\/a>Discussion Group: Librarian as Bibliographer (and Buyer)<\/p>\n – Sponsored by<\/em> California Rare Book School<\/em><\/p>\n As libraries consider reducing their stacks, either by moving items into remote storage facilities or by discarding \u201cduplicates,\u201d bibliography is becoming increasingly important, both to identify materials and also to assess their teaching and research value. How can librarians, booksellers, collectors, and academics work together to harness the power of bibliography in service of teaching and research? How can we draw on bibliography to preserve collections, build them, and make them available to students and faculty? What particular challenges do librarians and bibliographers face in the current environment, where space is limited and resources are few\u2014and what can we do about it?<\/p>\n Moderators: Virginia Bartow, Sr. Rare Book Cataloger Special Formats Processing, New York Public Library; Barbara Heritage, Assistant Director & Curator of Collections, Rare Book School, University of Virginia<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/a>Seminar: What Do People Want and How to Get It to Them: Patron- Driven Processing Priorities<\/p>\n – Sponsored by Bonhams <\/em><\/p>\n Special Collections librarians constantly consider how to prioritize access, tackle backlogs, and get patrons the materials they want with limited resources. Why not let our researchers guide our choices?\u00a0 This seminar explores how to develop strategies for setting patron-driven priorities based on localized recommendations and course requests. Practical instruction will illustrate how to channel researcher involvement into your collection development and processing decisions while developing rare book and manuscript collections.\u00a0 This session presents the most current knowledge on creating and setting priorities and developing long-range plans based on patron requests and how this approach can provide a much-needed focus for any special collections repository.<\/p>\n Speakers: Pam Hackbart-Dean, CA, Director, Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library-Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Susan Potts McDonald, Coordinator of Arrangement and Description Services, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; Elizabeth Slomba, University Archivist, University of New Hampshire<\/p>\n Moderator: Elizabeth Slomba, University Archivist, University of New Hampshire<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/a>Papers Panel 1: Digital Humanities Plus<\/p>\n Moderator: Colleen Theisen, University of Iowa<\/p>\n \u201cDigital Humanities and the History of Science: Retrofitting Old Collections for New Purpose\u201d<\/em>, Anne Bahde, Oregon State University Libraries and Press<\/em><\/p>\n History of science collections offer unique possibilities for data visualization, data mining, and social involvement. This paper will discuss an Oregon State University Libraries project involving the records of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS), a group founded by Einstein in 1946 to educate the public on the dangers of nuclear war and the peaceful uses of atomic science. This project creates an integrated tool that combines the digital humanities capabilities of multiple discovery platforms, enabling crowdsourced transcription, visual exploration of the digitized correspondence, and manipulation of collection metadata to reveal geographic concentrations, demographic patterns, donation trends, and more. These facets allow fresh insight into microhistorical questions about the successes and failures of the ECAS, but also enable exploration of larger questions about how Americans grappled with the new atomic reality.<\/p>\n \u201cNew Tools to Document Old Thefts: Mapping the Offenbach Archival Depot\u201d<\/em>, Mitch Fraas, University of Pennsylvania and Melanie Meyers, Center for Jewish History<\/em><\/p>\n It is not widely known that along with cultural treasures books were also plundered by the Nazis during WWII; entire libraries were confiscated and housed in the Offenbach Archival Depot. In 1946, the MFAA , or Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives division dispatched one of the \u201c Monuments Men\u201d, Colonel Pomrenze, to sort through the stores of looted books stored at Offenbach. Using the Offenbach scrapbooks, scrapbooks containing thousands of book plates and stamps Mitch Fraas and Melanie Meyers have created digital maps of the libraries and regions looted. they will discuss their work in bringing this chapter of print history to light, touching on the history of “The Monuments Men”, the plight of libraries in the aftermath of WWII, and how using geo-mapping allows us to present a new, visually engaging take on 60 year old thefts.<\/p>\n \u201cStudying the Book Arts in the 21st Century: Using Linked Data to Enhance Knowledge and Context\u201d<\/em>, Allison Jai O\u2019Dell, University of Miami Libraries<\/em><\/p>\n Appreciation of a given visual or narrative artwork is strengthened by knowledge of its creator\u2019s themes, subjects, and techniques, their working relationships, access to resources, and social, geographic, and educational background. For works within the handmade book genres, this contextual information is available in and\/or can often be inferred from library catalog databases, but is typically dispersed among data elements and records. This paper will present the findings of a recent project to harvest metadata concerning the University of Miami Libraries Artists\u2019 Book Collection, expose relationships between creators, works, and spaces, and semi- automatically enhance the library\u2019s data with information from WorldCat Identities, VIAF, and other Web resources. This same workflow could be replicated to reveal or connect knowledge about any book genre, and the paper will discuss the benefits of twenty-first-century data sharing techniques for the study of bibliography and the book arts.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/a>Papers Panel 2: Preservation<\/p>\n Moderator: Colleen Barrett, Lilly Library, Indiana University<\/p>\n \u201cPaul N. Banks Becomes a Book Conservator, 1956-64\u201d<\/em>, Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, University of Delaware<\/em><\/p>\n In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the new Council on Library Resources, the Association of Research Libraries, and the American Library Association began to support and apply theoretical, scientific, and practical \u201csystems\u201d approaches to the pressing preservation issues of the day. As important as these undertakings were, and for the historical credit they have received in promoting preservation of the nation\u2019s research collections, they tell only one side of the larger story of the growth of preservation thought, research, and practice in the United States. To depict the nature of the field in its naissance, this paper examines the young book conservation field through the life and work of Paul Banks from 1956 until 1964, the period preceding his tenure at the Newberry Library as the first named book conservator in the United States assigned the responsibility to manage the preservation of a research collection.<\/p>\n \u201cA Journey through the Preservation of the Alfred Rodman Hussey Papers\u201d<\/em>, Ikumi Crocoll, University of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n The Alfred Rodman Hussey Papers are considered one of the more important Japanese collections at the University of Michigan\u2019s Asia Library, largely because of the story they tell of the creation of the new constitution and re-construction of the government and its policies by the US in post-World War II Japan. From the careful microfilming done by the Library of Congress to current propositions for digitization by the University of Michigan Asia Library, the Alfred Rodman Hussey Papers have gone through a long journey of preservation techniques since their creation in the 40s through 60s. This paper will discuss assessing these valuable papers as part of a preservation needs assessment of the Asia Library and the creation of the collection finding aid illustrating the collaborative efforts between departments and libraries necessary to put such a project into practice.<\/p>\n \u201cPreserving Voices: Digitizing the Mid-Century Folk Collection of Mary Celestia Parler\u201d<\/em>, Timothy G. Nutt, University of Arkansas Libraries and Krista Oldham, University of Arkansas Libraries Mary Celestia Parler, wife of famed folklorist Vance Randolph, preserved the unique heritage of the Ozark Mountain residents through the collection of folk songs, sayings, legends, and remedies during the 1950s through the 1970s, utilizing her students at the University of Arkansas as interviewers and collectors. The collection contains over 4,700 field recordings of songs and tales gathered from around the Arkansas Ozarks, as well as nearly 1,000 class reports documenting customs and stories, such as tales of Jesse James, Belle Starr, and other outlaws hiding out in mountain caves. The Special Collections at the University of Arkansas has begun a project to digitize these important cultural items. The original reel-to-reel audio tapes had begun to deteriorate, and the information on the unique Ozark culture was in danger of being lost. This session will discuss Parler\u2019s collection and efforts to preserve the voices captured on tape and paper.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/a>Lunch break<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n <\/a>Brown Bag Lunch for New Members<\/p>\n New to the Section? Been away for a while? Get to know fellow RBMS members over a brown bag lunch! Join members from our Executive Board, committees, and other RBMS movers and shakers for an informal lunch. We’ll share our experiences with the Section, chat about Preconferences of yore, and explore ways that you, whether you’re new or just wanting to get more involved, can serve the RBMS community. Bring your lunch, your questions, and your energy!<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/a>Regional Discussion Groups<\/p>\n Gather with your colleagues from institutions from your region for a lively discussion that is group-derived and colleague-led. Explore topics that pertain to what matters most in your careers, professional interests and\/or institutions. Your moderators are sensitive to the regions within regions and will coordinate the session to enable everyone an opportunity to be a part of the dialogue.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/a>South Discussion Group<\/p>\n Moderator: Steven Smith, University of Tennessee<\/p><\/div> <\/a>West Discussion Group<\/p>\n Moderators: Maggie Kopp, Brigham Young University & Shannon Supple, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA<\/p><\/div> <\/a>Northeast Discussion Group<\/p>\n Moderators: Elizabeth Call, Columbia University & Moira Fitzgerald, Yale University<\/p><\/div> <\/a>Midwest Discussion Group<\/p>\n Moderators: Elspeth Healey, University of\u00a0Kansas & Kate Hutchens, University of Michigan<\/p><\/div> <\/a>Tour of the ABAA Booksellers’ Showcase<\/p>\n Hosted by E.C. Schroeder, Director, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> Beverage Break with Booksellers<\/p><\/div>
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