ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ February 2001 /  137

2001 RBMS Preconference—San Francisco

The 42nd annual Rare Books and Manuscript 
Section (RBMS) preconference, “The Twen­
tieth-Century,” will be held June 12-15, 2001, 
at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

The preconference will explore the chal­
lenges and opportunities w e face as builders 
of 20th-century research collections. The pro­
gram will examine 20th-century collecting 
practices, formats, and constituencies, along 
with the evolutionary cultural and techno­
logical changes that bear upon the nature of 
20th-century recorded information.

The preconference will offer an assort­
ment o f plenary papers, seminars, w ork­
shops, and tours. Topics will include: the 
history of com puter science and technology; 
changes in the patterns o f literary collecting; 
and the relationship betw een collection build­
ing and scholarship. Invited plenary speak­
ers include: Stephen Enniss, Emory Univer­
sity; Marvin Taylor, New York University; and 
Libbie Rifkin, Folger Shakespeare Library.

Seminar presentations will provide a fo­
rum for discussing technical sendees, collec­
tion development, and public service issues, 
including: online manuscript finding aids; the 
experience of outsourcing the OPAC; oral 
history programs and collections; ethical and 
legal issues involved in donor relations; and 
subject access to medieval an d  Renaissance 
manuscripts.

On Thursday, Ju n e 14, conference par­
ticipants will travel across the Bay for a day 
at the University o f California, Berkeley, and 
a reception hosted by the Bancroft Library.

The Fairmont, one o f San Francisco’s his­
toric, w orld-renow ned hotels, is centrally 
located on top of Nob Hill at 950 Mason Street

frequency of scholarly resources cited. Book 
references d ro p p ed  from 30 to 19 percent. 
Newspaper citations increased from 7 to 19 
percent and Web citations increased from 9 
to 21 percent.

ingenta offers CrossRef Linking
ingenta, a global research gateway, has b e­
come a registered agent for CrossRef, the ref­
erence linking initiative for scientific and 
scholarly publishers (see “CrossRef’ article

at the com er of Powell Street. It offers pan­
oramic views of the city and the San Fran­
cisco Bay. Renovated in 1999, the Fairmont 
has been restored to its original beaux arts 
design as conceived by the celebrated San 
Francisco architect Julia Morgan in 1906.

ALA single room rates for die Fairmont 
will be $186, with double room  rates starting 
at $199 per night. A dorm  option will be 
available at the University of San Francisco, 
a 20-minute ride o n  the bus line to Powell 
Street/Union Square. More information about 
th e  F a irm o n t H o te l c a n  b e  fo u n d  at: 
h ttp  ://w w  w . fa irm o n t. c o m /h o  hote ls/in d e x _  
SF.html.

Reservations for the Fairmont Hotel must 
be m ade through the ALA Travel Desk at 
(800) 999-0925 before May 11, 2001. Please 
identify yourself as an RBMS attendee.

Preconference registration fees will be 
$195 for ACRL m em bers and $230 for n o n ­
members. Fees include entrance to all p re­
conference receptions, coffee breaks, papers, 
and seminars.

Additional details about the 2001 RBMS 
Preconference are on the RBMS Web site at 
http://www.rbms.nd.edU/#preconferences.A 
printed brochure and registration form will 
be m ailed to RBMS m em bers in March. 
Questions about the preconference can be 
sen t to Katherine Reagan, program  chair 
(kr33@cornell.edu) o r to local arrangements 
co-chairs Theresa Salazar, University o f Cali­
f o r n ia  a t B e rk e le y  (ts a la z a r@ lib ra ry . 
berkeley.edu), and John Hawk, University 
o f  S an F ra n c is c o  ( h a w k j@ u s fc a .e d u ). 
— K a th erin e R eagan, C ornell University, 
kr33@cornell.edu

o n  page 206). Publishers hosted by ingenta 
will benefit from becom ing part o f a system 
that links their reference citations to the cited 
content.

CrossRef links m ore than 3 million articles 
from  th o u san d s o f journals a n d  will ad d  
500,00 each year. CrossRef allows participat­
ing publishers to  link from electronic article 
references in one publication to citations and 
references in another publication, ingenta will 
act as an agent on behalf o f m em ber pub-

http://www.rbms.nd.edU/%23preconferences.A
mailto:kr33@cornell.edu
berkeley.edu
mailto:hawkj@usfca.edu
mailto:kr33@cornell.edu