[Sca-librarians] Call for papers: 2005 RBMS Preconference (fwd)

[john j cash]

Dear folks,

I am forwarding this call for papers to this SCA list. As we in the
SCA take service to the arts through teaching very seriourly, and as the 
SCA forms a constituency for rare books and manuscripts exhibitions and
education programs, perhaps some of us could come up with professional
papers focusing on the SCA in these ways?

Please forward to any SCA arts lists you think might benefit.

-- Johannes

"Boojum: Term used to describe the total annihilation of a 
word/line/character/subplot/book/series. Complete and irreversible, the
nature of a boojum is still the subject of some heated speculation. Some 
past members of Jurisfiction theorise that a Boojum might be a gateway to
an 'anti-library' somewhere beyond the 'imagination horizon'. It is
possible that the semi-mythical Snark may hold the key to decipher what
is, at present, a mystery."
 -- Jasper Fforde

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:36:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eric Holzenberg <ejh at grolierclub.org>
Reply-To: exlibris at library.berkeley.edu
To: Multiple recipients of list <exlibris at library.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Call for papers: 2005 RBMS Preconference

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You are invited to respond to the call below, and to distribute this 
message to all interested parties.

The 46th Annual ACRL/Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Preconference
"Bridging the Gap: Education & Special Collections"
St. Lous, Missouri
21-24 June 2005

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College & 
Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association 
(ALA), seeks proposals for short papers related to the theme of its 2005 
preconference, "Bridging the Gap: Education & Special Collections."

The preconference will address the needs of special collections librarians 
to educate themselves in order to educate others.  Like most their 
colleagues in other branches of the profession, special collections 
librarians often act as teachers, informally with individual users or 
formally as leaders of classes. But because of the preservation and 
security needs of the rare books and manuscripts under their care, special 
collections librarians must take on the additional roles of interpreter, 
impresario, advocate, and cheerleader. The skills to reach these 
constituencies cannot be acquired within the context of a two-year master's 
program, while the opportunities for formal education in the basics of our 
profession -- bibliography, history of the book, rare book cataloguing -- 
are shrinking.

The conference will address the "gap" between the knowledge we need to be 
effective caretakers and interpreters, and the means of acquiring that 
knowledge. It will elucidate the many ways in which special collections 
librarians act as educators; enumerate the skills needed to play those 
roles; assess the dwindling opportunities for acquiring them; and address 
how to meet the profession's expanding needs for additional skills.  The 
objectives of the preconference will include providing up-to-date 
information about pedagogical methods, exhibition techniques, grant-writing 
strategies, donor relations, and effective use of web-based tools; engaging 
attendees in discussion of issues relating the evolving profile of special 
collections in a digital world; and setting an agenda for the development 
of specialized continuing education for current and future generations of 
special collections librarians.

A variety of subjects can be explored in a short paper, but topics might 
include:

* Case studies describing innovative ways of interpreting collections.

* The origin and development of special collections library education

* Teaching the book as object

* Role of special collections in intellectual and social history

* Interaction between special collections librarians and faculty, students, 
administration, and other constituencies.

* Independent research libraries and their educational functions

* Grant funded educational programs in special collections libraries

* Student perspectives on special collections

* Using and interpreting special collections for K-12

Each paper selected will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation. Papers 
will be presented in small group sessions, and audience response will be 
encouraged.

Proposals should not exceed 250 words and should be submitted by 31 October 
2004 to:

Eric Holzenberg, Chair, RBMS Preconference Program Committee

Via e-mail: ejh at grolierclub.org
FAX: (212) 838-2445
Post: The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY 10022

A website devoted to the RBMS Preconference will be available shortly at 
<http://www.library.wustl.edu/rbms.html>www.library.wustl.edu/rbms.<http://www.library.wustl.edu/rbms.html>html.

Decisions and notification about proposals will be made by 1 December 2004.

Submissions are encouraged from all interested parties, including graduate 
students in relevant disciplines. Funding is not available from RBMS to 
support travel costs.





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