Wednesday, June 23

8 am - 12:30 pm

Registration (Davies Auditorium/Becton Center)

9 am - 10:30 am

Plenary II (Davies Auditorium/Becton Center)

Robert Parks, Robert H. Taylor Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, The Pierpont Morgan Library
Pirate or Benefactor?: Public Perceptions of Pierpont Morgan's Collecting

Michael Winship, Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin
"Too Costly, Too Voluminous, or of Too Little Value": Building Research Collections in the 19th Century United States

10:30 am - 11 am

Coffee Break (Becton Center)

11 am - 12:30 pm

Plenary III (Davies Auditorium/Becton Center)

Tom F. Staley, Director, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Navigating the HRC Through the New Century

Anthony Rota, Bertram Rota Ltd., London
Building a Fence Round a Cloud, or How to Define a Collection

Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America

12:30 pm - 2 pm

Lunch

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 G (BRBL)

Teaching a New Generation of Researchers: The Instructional Needs of Undergraduates Using Primary Source Materials

Moderator: Laura Clark Brown, Head of Public Services, Manuscripts Department, UNC-Chapel Hill. Presenters: Jill S. Stover, MLS Candidate, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill; Elizabeth Dunn, Reference Services Librarian, Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, Duke University; Diane Kaplan, Head of Reference Services, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University; and William R. Massa, Public Services Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University

Seminar H (SML Lecture Hall)

Using the TEI for Early Printed Books: An encoding Guide and Reference

Moderator: Julia Flanders, Director of the Women Writers Project, Brown University, and Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. Presenters: Richard Noble, Rare Book Cataloger, John Hay Library, Brown University and Terry Catapano, Special Collections Analyst/Librarian, Digital Libraries Projects, Columbia University

Seminar I (Law School)

Special Collections and Library Administrators: Building Successful Relationships

Moderator: Christian Dupont, Head of Special Collections, Syracuse University Library. Presenters: Alice Prochaska, University Librarian, Yale University; Merrily Taylor, former University Librarian, Brown University, and University Librarian-designate, Washington & Lee University; and Sam Streit, Associate University Librarian for Special Collections, Brown University Library

5:30 pm - 7 pm

Reception at Yale Center for British Art

6:30 pm

Restaurant Night in New Haven

Key to Preconference Venues:

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