The Coral Gables Museum is the official Visitor Center for the City of Coral Gables, a planned community of the 1920s featuring Mediterranean style historic buildings, fountains, plazas... Read More

RBMS offers special lunch options to make life easy at this secluded resort property. Build the salad of your dreams with crisp iceberg & romaine,... Read More

Sponsored by: Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC

From new collaborations and innovative user roles to stimulating opportunities and challenges involved in navigating one’s professional path, we all manage and make the most of change at work every day. Join RBMS chair, vice-chair/chair elect and past chair...

Sponsored by: Bonhams

Moderator: Kristin Browning Leaman, Indiana University

Evangelizing for Reference: Teaching the Value of Public Services
Education for special collections library students has often focused on bibliography and/or curatorial duties; while MLS students often take a standard reference class as part of their program...
Speaker: Melanie J. Meyers, The Center for Jewish History

“But I Want My Job”: Library School vs. the “Real World”
This final paper will focus on the speaker’s experiences as a host and visiting speaker for LIS classes; as a mentor to MLS students, and as a mid-career professional in a field different from that studied at library school...
Speaker: Charlotte Priddle, Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University

Defining Wonder: Teaching Rare Books with Collections and Collaborations
The speaker will focus on the two courses he currently teaches at library schools in New York - ‘Rare Books’ at the Pratt Institute, and ‘Great Collections of New York’ at the Palmer School...
Speaker: Kyle R. Triplett, New York Public Library

Sponsored by: Bonhams

As the “baby boomer” generation of catalogers begins to retire, a wealth of deep knowledge and experience in rare materials cataloging is at risk of being lost. What are institutions doing now to make sure the needed expertise is being passed on to the next generations? What metrics are needed to make the case...

Considering starting or expanding your institution’s web archiving program? Curious about issues and methods? The web is by far the most accessed and democratic publishing... Read More

Sponsored by: Hollinger Metal Edge

More Than a Page: Roles of Undergraduate Student Employees in Archives and Special Collections Departments
Presenter: Sarah M. Allison, New Mexico State University

How Textbooks of the Past are Opening Doors for the Students of Today
Presenter: Heather Beach, SUNY Oneonta

Milne Library’s “Hortus Conclusus”: The Tree of Knowledge and Diderot’s Encyclopédie – Interdisciplinary Paths of Enlightenment
Presenter: Molly Brown, SUNY Oneonta

Assigning Rights Statements to Legacy Digital Collections
Presenters:
Laura Capell, University of Miami Libraries
Elliot Williams, University of Miami Libraries

Springshare’s LibGuides: Fad or Investment?
Presenter: Abigail B. Connick, University of Illinois

#80yrsintheStacks: Sharing, Statistics, and Special Collections from the Stacks
Presenter: Diane Dias De Fazio, Brooklyn College

Exploring Rare Books Collection at the Brazilian National Library Foundation
Presenters:
Adriana Gonçalves, Brazilian National Library Foundation
Joyce Lacôrte, Brazilian National Library Foundation
Letícia Provenzano, Brazilian National Library Foundation
Valéria Werneck, Brazilian National Library Foundation

Collecting a Cuban Heritage: Fine Art at FIU Special Collections
Presenter: Annia Gonzalez, Florida International University

Campus Connections: The Black Campus Movement Project at Kent State
Presenter: Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, Kent State University

Vision and Revision: Student Curated Exhibitions and the Collaborative Process
Presenters:
Emily Kader, University of North Carolina Wilson Special Collections Library
Rachel Reynolds, University of North Carolina Wilson Special Collections Library

Sponsored by: Simon Beattie

Taking up the "outreach" component of this year's theme, this session will focus on pooling our ideas and experiences with active learning in the special collections classroom. Many librarians have experimented with techniques from the simple think-pair-share to the flipped classroom, but we can always use more ideas...

Sponsored by: California Rare Book School

Moderators: Jocelyn Karlan, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Archives, Action, AIDS: Archival Collaborations with Visual AIDS
This paper examines a series of archival collaborations between activists, artists, and archivists with Visual AIDS, a community-based arts organization committed to raising AIDS awareness by producing and presenting visual art projects...
Speaker: Marika Cifor, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Archives Power to the People: Documenting Police Violence in Cleveland
This presentation will trace the origins of A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland and situate the archive within the context of contemporary U.S. freedom movements opposing state violence...
Speaker: Melissa Hubbard, Case Western Reserve

Diasporic Interventions: Human Rights, Civil War and the Archives of El Rescate
This paper focuses on the human rights archives of El Rescate, a community based organization in Los Angeles. Founded by refugees from the Salvadoran civil war in 1981...
Speaker: Mario H. Ramirez, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles