2011 Conference

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Presentations and materials from “In the Hurricane’s Eye: Challenges of Collecting in the 21st Century,” the 52nd Annual RBMS Preconference, Baton Rouge, LA, June 21-24, 2011.

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want But Sometimes You Get What You Need: Special Collections in Tough Economic Times
(2011-06-26) Dunlap, Ellen S.; Kiesling, Kris; Oram, Richard W.; Schaffner, Jennifer
How have rare book and special collections libraries weathered the global financial crisis of 2008? Presented at the end of the second full fiscal year in which libraries have absorbed budget cuts, layoffs, and job and wage freezes, this panel of special collections library administrators will compare notes on their experiences during this period and will discuss whether the economic downturn might have resulted in positive, as well as negative, developments for their institutions.
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2011 Preconference Miscellaneous Files
(2011)
Miscellaneous files relating to the 2011 RBMS Preconference, including registration forms and schedules.
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RBMS 2011 Preconference Schedule
(2011-06)
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Photos from 2011 Preconference
(2011-06)
More photographs from the Preconference are available on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/40507134@N03/sets/72157627099312933/
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Collecting in Changing Times
(2011-06) Slive, Daniel J.; Goffin, Jordan; Nelson, R. Arvid; Nykanen, Melissa
As special collections libraries rethink their collections, potential holdings and uses may begin to transform. This panel will examine areas in which new collecting domains can be identified, new approaches to collection development practiced, and new tools developed to explore historical materials.
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Seminar H. Next Generation Library Catalogs and Cataloging
(2011-06) Johnson, Elizabeth; Dooley, Jackie; Morgan, Eric Lease; Sotelo, Aislinn
What constitutes a “next-generation” online catalog? How will the changing discovery and metadata environment affect the creation, management, and use of special collections cataloging data? This seminar will examine some innovative features of existing next-generation catalogs, as well as factors that catalogers should consider relative to the effectiveness of the data that they create.
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Seminar G. Pecha Kucha with Our Stuff: Teaching with Rare Books, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
(2011-06) Ascher, James P.; Borderud, Jennifer; DeGraff, Kathryn; Dekydtspotter, Lori; Fleming, Cheryl Torok; Gardner, Julia; Horowitz, Sarah; Modrow, William; Sheehan, Jennifer; Smedberg, Heather
Pecha kucha is a fast-paced and entertaining new format for presentations using brevity and clarity. Each presenter is limited to exactly twenty slides, progressing automatically at twenty seconds per slide, resulting in a 6 minute, 40 second focused showcase of their work. For the first RBMS Preconference seminar using this format, we’re taking a pecha-kucha peek inside each other’s special collections classroom. Presenters will demonstrate innovative in-class exercises, experimental instructional approaches, or tried-and-true tricks and tools for teaching with the “stuff” of our profession.
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Seminar F. Hidden Collections and Small Budgets
(2011-06) Hubbard, Melissa A.; Ferris, Anna M.; Myers, Anne K. D.
Exposing “hidden collections” continues to be of interest to the profession, but how much change is possible at institutions with large backlogs and small budgets? This seminar presents strategies for increasing rare book cataloging productivity without increased funds, which are culled from the results of a survey of rare book catalogers, as well as the experience of the presenters.
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Seminar C. Digital Intermediation of Physical Stuff: How Technology Influences the Movement of Books from Bookseller to Curator to Cataloger to Professor
(2011-06) Inman, Michael; Ascher, James P.; Cole, Heather; Gaub, Andrew
The evolving challenges of digital technologies and documentation sometimes obscure the physical objects that constitute the seed grain of special collections. We all — administrators, booksellers, curators, scholars, and researchers — look for newfangled digital technologies to speed the plough, be it through researching, cataloging, or promoting our books. Yet, our work remains fundamentally tied to the physical material, and while electronic technology is often sexy, it serves merely as an intermediary by which we explore and interpret our collections.
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Case Studies Panel IV. Digitization on a Shoestring
(2011-06) Kovari, Jason; Knies, Jennie A. Levine; Passehl, Erin
As cultural heritage institutions increasingly make their collections available online, even the smallest and most cash-strapped libraries and archives face the expectation to digitize from users (and administrators). Three professionals will share their insights into the challenges and rewards of building small but robust digital programs with limited resources, such as identifying an appropriate program scope, dealing with inadequate equipment and facilities, and relying on undergraduate student labor.
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Seminar B. Yes, We Scan!: Innovative Approaches to User-initiated Digitization
(2011-06) Schaffner, Jennifer; Bahde, Anne; Blecksmith, Anne; Gardner, Julia
This seminar presents innovative experiments with scanning and delivering digital copies of special collections materials at the request of users. The speakers have established different, yet equally creative, streamlined workflows to fulfill their users ’ requests, including self-serve scanning in the reading room, collaborating with interlibrary loan (ILL) colleagues to use existing infrastructure and expertise, and using a tiered approach to capture and manage the digital files created by fulfilling user requests. Speakers will discuss workflows-in-progress, lessons learned, and how they learned to stop worrying and love digital copy requests.
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Seminar A. Z702 Is for Book Thief: The Role of Technical Services in Collection Security
(2011-06) Schneider, Nina; Brandt, Randal; Cordes, Ellen; Galbraith, Steven K.
Following the 2010 RBMS Conference Program, To Catch a Thief: Cataloging and the Security of Special Collections, this seminar will explore cataloging rare materials while being ever mindful of securing those collections. This seminar will look at those questions, and possible answers, from a cataloger’s point of view. Are they practicable? What happens if the best answer is in direct conflict with department priorities? What is the responsibility of technical services when it comes to collections security? How should we prioritize our limited time when we consider our responsibility for our collections?
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How Special is Your Library?: Special Collections and the Value of Academic Libraries
(2011-06) Pritchard, Sarah M.; Dupont, Christian; Carter, Lisa; Paustenbaugh, Jennifer
Shifting financial landscapes are compelling libraries and their parent institutions to look more closely than ever at their “bottom line”: the unique value they contribute to scholarly research and teaching, student learning and lifelong enrichment. What roles do special collections play in creating and delivering that value? How can those roles be measured, assessed, appreciated? An open “talk show” panel will involve attendees in a discussion focused on how the value of special collections can be more effectively articulated and demonstrated.
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Sectional Focus, National Value: Why Regional Collections Really Matter
(2011-06) Greene, Mark A.; Hoover, John; Marshall, Jeffrey D.; West, Tim; Graffagnino, Kevin
Attention to Americana collections usually goes to the large academic and independent libraries that collect nationally. But the reality is that dozens of other institutions have built extraordinary collections of regional or one-state historical materials, and those libraries also serve important academic, popular, and research audiences. This session will look at the tradition of regional collecting in America and the role it can play in the library world in the 21st century. A representative panel of directors and curators of regional collections will talk informally about the challenges, opportunities, and initiatives that special collections libraries with a sectional focus will address in the years ahead.
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Cultural Stewardship: The Challenge of Acquisition, Preservation, and Access in a Time of Perpetual Crisis
(2011-06) Hampton, Lee; Gibson, Greg; Hankins, Rebecca
How can we keep building and providing effective access to collections that will remain central in the future, fulfilling our obligation to provide stewardship of the cultural record? While we continue to collect a multiplicity of formats from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – with the attendant issues of physical storage space, preservation, and access – the twenty-first century offers a new set of evolving challenges. Demographics in the United States and elsewhere are shifting dramatically, and human use of digital technologies is changing what makes up the historical record, in both format and content. These and related issues will be addressed in this opening, keynote plenary. Lee Hampton will speak from his perspective as an academic administrator and a library director. As executive director of the Amistad Research Center, Lee Hampton leads the nation’s oldest, largest and most comprehensive independent archive that chronicles the history of African Americans and other ethnic minorities. Likewise, Greg Gibson will speak from his perspective as a bookseller, author, and cultural critic. As owner and founder of Ten Pound Island Books, Greg Gibson has been active in the forefront of the antiquarian book world for over three decades. In Hubert’s Freaks, his 2008 book about the discovery and attempted sale of an archive of a Times Square freak show and a treasure trove of lost Diane Arbus photographs, Gibson tells a real-life story involving many of the issues central to cultural stewardship and preservation.
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Case Studies Panel I. Working with Underserved Communities
(2011-06) Grob, Julie; Marin, Christine, Dr.; Martin, Joyce; Kopp, Maggie
Speakers will present case studies which document the successes and challenges experienced in collection development, promotion, and community use of their unique archival collections. From the ethics of dealing with culturally sensitive material to fostering relationships with underserved communities, the speakers will share how to reach out beyond typical donor communities to find fresh new collecting areas, fugitive sources, and unexpected partners.

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