Tuesday, June 22

8 am - 4 pm

Registration (Davies Auditorium/Becton Center)

9 am - 9:15 am

Opening Remarks (Davies Auditorium/Becton Center)

Frank Turner, Director, Beinecke Library

9:15 am - 10:30 am

Plenary I (Davies Auditorium/Becton Center)

Alice Prochaska, University Librarian, Yale University
Some Issues Relating to the Ownership of Manuscripts

James Raven, Professor of History, University of Essex, and Director of the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust
Transatlantic Migrations in the Colonial Period

10:30 am - 11 am

Coffee Break (Becton Center Terrace)

11 am - 12:30 pm

Short Papers

Group A (SML Lecture Hall)

W. Gerald Heverly, New York University
Repatriating the Papers of German Émigré Philosophers: the PittsburghKonstanz Archival Partnership

Anne Rothfeld, Reference Librarian, National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
Restitution of Library and Manuscript Collections in Post-War Europe: The Offenbach Archival Depot

Joel Wurl, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Documenting Displacement: The Migration of Archival Sources from Post WWII East European Émigré Groups

Group B (BRBL)

Walter Brem, Latin American Curator, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
The Bancroft Library and Mexico's Bibliographic Disasters of the 19th Century

Melissa Conway, Head, Special Collections, UC Riverside, and Lisa Fagin Davis, UMCC/De Ricci Census Update Project
The Migration of pre-1600 Manuscript Collections to (and among) North American Libraries in the 20th Century

Ronald D. Patkus, Head of Archives and Special Collections, Vassar College
Musical Migrations: A Case Study of the Teresa Carreño Papers

Group C (Davies Auditorium/Becton Center)

Earle Havens, Curator of Manuscripts, Boston Public Library
Neo-Philobiblon: The Migration of the Osborn Collection of Literary and Historical Manuscripts from Britain to the Beinecke Library

Margaret K. Powell, Librarian, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
"... and Nothing Mattered but the Eighteenth Century": W.S. Lewis and His Collection

Gregory J. Prickman, SSM Health Care, St. Louis
"Towards the Formation of a Free Library": The English Book Donation to Chicago

12:30 pm - 2 pm

Lunch

2 pm - 3:30 pm

Seminars

Seminar A (BRBL)

Preservation for Special Collections: What's Current and What's to Come

Discussion leaders: Janet Gertz, Head of Preservation, Columbia University Libraries and Charlotte B. Brown, University Archivist, UCLA

Seminar B (SML Lecture Hall)

"If You Build It . . .": Usability Testing for Special Collections

Moderator: Jennifer Schaffner, Head of Public Services, Clark Library, UCLA. Presenters: Merrilee Proffitt, Program Officer, RLG; Erika Dowell, Public Services Librarian, Lilly Library, Indiana University; and Elizabeth Yakel, Assistant Professor, Archives Program, University of Michigan

Seminar C (Law School)

The "Hidden Collections" Project: How You Can Get Involved

Moderator and presenter: Barbara Jones, University Librarian, Wesleyan University. Presenters: Joan Swanekamp, Chief Catalog Librarian, Sterling Memorial Library; Nicole Bouché, Head, Manuscript Unit, Beinecke Library; and Thomas Hyry, Head of Arrangement and Description, Manuscript & Archives, Sterling Memorial Library

2 pm - 3:30 pm

Yale and New Haven Tours

3:30 pm - 4 pm

Coffee Break (SML Selin Courtyard)

4 pm - 5:30 pm

Seminars

Seminar D (BRBL)

The Diaspora of Music Special Collections: European Music in the United States and American Music in Europe

Moderator: Karen Spicher, Archivist, Manuscript Unit, Beinecke Library. Presenters: Kendall L. Crilly, Librarian, Yale University Music Library; Stephen Hinton, Professor, Department of Music, Stanford University; and John Wagstaff, Music Faculty Library, Oxford University

Seminar E (SML)

Curating Exhibitions in Special Collections and on the Web

Moderator: Daniel J. Slive, Associate, Americana Dept., William Resse Company. Presenters: Claudia Funke, Curator of Rare Books, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University; Suzy Taraba, Head of Special Collections and University Archivist, Wesleyan University; and John Pull, Webmaster, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Seminar F (Law School)

Funding Opportunities for Special Collections Projects

Moderator: Barbara Paulson, Senior Program Officer, Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Presenters: Susan Malbin, Senior Program Officer, Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Max Evans, Executive Director, National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)

6 pm - 9 pm

Reception and dinner at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library with Exhibitions Catalogs Award Exhibit

Key to Preconference Venues:

BRBL = Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
SML = Sterling Memorial Library