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May 28, 2015
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Image Credit: Hearst Mining Building, UC Berkeley, The Berkeley Graduate. UC Berkeley Secrets The beauty of the interior of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the first building on campus designed by John Galen Howard, with its balconies and three glass domes, is no secret, but many ...
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May 26, 2015
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Image Credit: Randall Munroe, Wikipedian Protestor, XKCD, (CC BY-NC 2.5). When does a conference truly end? Whenever that moment arrives for you, whether that means returning home or moving on to new topics of conversation a few weeks or months later, some doubtless feel that a ...
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May 22, 2015
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Image Credit: Randal S. Brandt Visit Oakland “You have already decided that Oakland is somewhere you want to discover and you are about to be surprised and delighted by what you find here!” These are the opening words of the current Official Visitors Guide published and ...
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May 19, 2015
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Image credit: Edward Cocker, Arts Glory or, The Pen-Man’s Treasury, London 1669; University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections. After our previous posts looking at several workshops on the schedule for the 2015 Conference, we turn our ...
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May 12, 2015
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Quran, Tunisia; Credits to Habib M’henni / Wikimedia Commons This year we are experimenting again with a handful of sessions for conference attendees to dive deep into timely debates. One of these in-depth sessions is a reading group Wednesday afternoon at 3:45, and we just announced ...
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May 4, 2015
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The Membership and Professional Development Committee is delighted to extend a special welcome to new members attending the upcoming 2015 RBMS Conference, “Preserve the Humanities! Special Collections as Liberal Arts Laboratory,” held in Oakland & Berkeley CA, June 23-26. M&PD ...
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April 27, 2015
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Note: To add an event to your existing RBMS 2015 registration, please call (800) 545-2433 and select option #5, or email registration@ala.org What do Rosie the Riveter, Liberty ships, Kaiser Permanente, the Ford Motor Company, the WPA, art, good food, mid-century modern architecture, and ...
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April 21, 2015
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My memories from RBMS Conferences of years past include the excitement of the opening plenary, browsing at the ABAA Booksellers’ Showcase, and discussing a particularly exciting session with a few colleagues. I remember exploring the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas, and attending the bag ...
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April 13, 2015
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RBMS 2015 has four fantastic workshops lined up for conference attendees. The workshops meet on Tuesday and while most of them are full, there are two, I repeat TWO spots left in “A Multi-Faceted Exploration of Digital Exhibitions for Special Collections Libraries,” presented by Jason ...
