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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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(2011-06-26)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 ...
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(2011)Miscellaneous files relating to the 2011 RBMS Preconference, including registration forms and schedules.
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(2011-06)More photographs from the Preconference are available on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/40507134@N03/sets/72157627099312933/
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(2011-06)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 ...
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(2011-06)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 ...
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(2011-06)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 ...
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(2011-06)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 ...
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(2011-06)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 ...
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(2011-06)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 ...
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(2011-06)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 ...
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(2011-06)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. ...
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(2011-06)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 ...
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(2011-06)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 ...
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(2011-06)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 ...
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(2011-06)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 ...