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  • 2013 Preconference Miscellaneous Files 
    Unknown author (2013)
    Miscellaneous files relating to the 2013 RBMS Preconference, including registration forms and dining guides.
  • I. Opening Plenary: Submerged Voices in Underground Performance 
    Mann, Larisa; Reagan, Katherine; Ortiz, Ben (2013-06)
    What are the practical and ethical issues involved when collecting institutions assume responsibility for documenting living cultures? Do marginalized communities have particular claims on the organization, identification ...
  • II. Revaluing mimeographs and other obsolete things: an introduction to media archaeology 
    Hawley, Elizabeth Haven; Supple, Shannon (2013-06)
    Dr. Hawley is an historian of technology and special collections professional whose scholarship focuses on the relationship of technological change to marginalized producers and communities. A specialist in historical ...
  • Seminar E. Living in a Material World: Digitization for Profit 
    Lowe, Jennifer; Espo, Hal; Jaycox, Emily; Dowell, Erika (2013-06)
    This seminar will examine the considerations involved in planning and undertaking mass digitization projects to generate revenue from special collections holdings. Hal Espo, a consultant in the digital services arena, will ...
  • Talks 2. Regional Collecting of Performing Arts 
    Koffler, Helice; Diaz, Joseph; Reyes-Escudero, Veronice; Ross, Bill; Crowe, Katherine (2013-06)
    “The Performance of Archives: Challenges and Opportunities”: Typically, performing arts archives include audiovisual materials in a variety of formats, in addition to photographs, paper documents, and 3-D objects. Making ...
  • Talks 10. Performance in Unlikely Places 
    Schroeder, Edwin C.; Dysert, Anna; Garland, Jennifer; Kochkina, Svetlana (2013-06)
    “Anatomy Theaters, Legal Dramas, and Landscape Staging: Unexpected Performances in Special Collections”: This session will locate varying types of performances within three historically significant special collections, ...
  • III. Closing Plenary: “It’s Showtime, Folks!”: The Evolving Nature of Research and Public Engagement With Performing Arts Collections 
    Reside, Douglas L.; Taylor, Marvin J.; Jackson, Athena (2013-06)
    Throughout the conference we have seen innovative and traditional performances and performing arts materials, both within and outside the library. For this closing plenary, let’s look back at what we learned and consider ...
  • Seminar D: There has to be a Better Way: Connecting Curators and Dealers in the Brave New World 
    Schaffner, Jennifer; Green, Daryl; Mann, Joshua; Johnson, Brad; Nadal, Jacob (2013-06)
    Communication norms have changed radically and preferred methods for contact are not what they were in the worlds of special collections and antiquarian bookselling. Dealers would like to hear from newer librarians about ...
  • Discussion 1, Directing without a Script: Strategies for Successful Technical Services Project Management 
    Mascaro, Michelle; DeZelar-Tiedman, Christine (2013-06)
    Projects, such as retrospective barcoding, relocating collections, grants to catalog hidden collections, etc., are as common in Special Collections technical services areas as the day to day work of keeping up with new ...
  • Discussion 4, Archivist and Librarian Roles in Building Trust with Donors and Patrons 
    Bryan, Ruth (2013-06)
    The effectiveness of an archives or library for its donors and patrons is based in large part on their trust in both the place and the staff, in donors’ and patrons’ “willingness to be vulnerable to the actions of another ...
  • Talks 7. Variety 
    Chandler, Katharine; Garner, Anne; MacAyeal, Gregory; White, Eric (2013-06)
    “Theater in the Margins: Three Case Studies of Annotation in the Berg Collection”: Marginalia, a kind of responsive writing hinging on an earlier text, can be both private and public. Three books from the personal libraries ...
  • Talks 8. Theatre 
    Williams, Cherry Dunham; Brady, Susan; Koffler, Helice; Kurtz, Howard Vincent; Lee, Jennifer (2013-06)
    “American Theatre Archive Project”: The American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP), an initiative of the American Society for Theatre Research, was established in 2009 to help active theater companies preserve their legacy ...
  • Talks 1. Performance in Literary Collections 
    Ott, Elizabeth; Melton, Robert; Burk, Wendy; Kukil, Karen; Daub, Peggy; Favretto, Cristina (2013-06)
    “Performance and Performers in the Literary Archive”: Many traditional “literary” archives are home to the papers, recordings, printed ephemera, and artifacts of writers whose work has developed a strongly performative ...
  • Talks 6. Interpreting History and Art 
    Smedberg, Heather; Myers, Ann K. D.; Myers, William Andrew; Thompson, D. Claudia (2013-06)
    “What the Heck is This Thing? Opening Artists’ Books to the User”: This session will address some of the philosophical questions behind describing artists’ books. Thinking of cataloging as performance, how can catalogers ...
  • Talks 5. Music 
    Kelly, Mike; Wurtz, Michael; Wells, Veronica; Langham, Patrick (2013-06)
    “Take Five: Integrating Music Collections and the Brubeck Collection into Undergraduate Library Instruction”: The Brubeck Collection at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California is an unsuspected font of ...
  • Seminar B: Reviewing our (Classroom) Performance: Evaluating Special Collections Instruction 
    Thomas, Lynne; Horowitz, Sarah M.; Gardner, Julia; Taraba, Suzy (2013-06)
    Evaluating and assessing student learning and experiences in special collections can help librarians tailor their teaching in the future, and can also help them determine whether students are meeting the learning outcomes ...
  • Talks 9. Wikipedia and Libraries 
    Halvorson, Hjordis; Kosovsky, Bob; Cartwright, Ryan; McGhie, János; Proffitt, Merrilee (2013-06)
    “Wikipedia and Libraries: a Special Relationship”: Wikipedia can be a highly influential source of information, and if libraries (and their unique holdings) were a part of Wikipedia, they would receive increased attention. ...
  • Seminar A: Collecting in the Moment 
    Bouché, Nicole; Gueguen, Gretchen (2013-06)
    In the wake of recent events at the University of Virginia surrounding the ousting, and later reinstatement, of President Teresa Sullivan, the University Library, including the University Archives, in the Albert and Shirley ...
  • Talks 4. RDA 
    Dekydtspotter, Lori; Talley, Jennifer R.; Maxwell, Robert; Boyd, Morag; Lorimer, Nancy (2013-06)
    “Rethinking Our Cataloging Choreography: Cataloging Special Collection Materials Using RDA”: Drawing from their expertise as current RDA special collections catalogers, panelists will share their experiences cataloging ...
  • Building Collections: Acquiring Materials and Working with the Antiquarian Book Trade 
    Schroeder, E. C.; Slive, Daniel J. (2013-06)
    The workshop is primarily intended for librarians working at all types of institutions and with all levels of budgets who are responsible for acquisition and collection development of special collections materials. The ...

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