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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
ACRL/RBMS CONFERENCE ON LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS
20-23 June 2006
Austin, Texas

Registration is now open for "Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the
21st
Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?," a major national
conference that will be held in Austin, Texas, on 20-23 June 2006.

Registration, program, and scholarship application information is
available from the conference web site at:
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/rbms2006.
Registration rates are $195 for members; $240 for non-members; $75 for
current, full-time students; and $85 for one-day registration. A $50
surcharge will be added to registrations after May 17. A generous grant
from Institute for Library and Museum Services (IMLS) will provide
funding for thirty new and aspiring professionals to attend the
conference, including at least ten from professionally underrepresented
backgrounds. The deadline for scholarship applications is March 30.

The conference is being organized by the Rare Books and Manuscripts
Section
(RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a
division of the American Library Association (ALA). The Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin will
serve as the primary host.

The two-and-a-half-day conference program will include a series of
plenary sessions that address a broad range of topics from comparative
viewpoints, including collecting purposes and strategies, audiences and
access, legal issues, and professional education and development. A
variety of workshop and seminar sessions and facilitated discussion
groups will complement the conference theme. Participants will also be
able to enjoy evening receptions and special tours of the recently
renovated Ransom Center and Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, the Lyndon
Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Bob Bullock Texas State History
Museum, and other local cultural facilities.

Lodging at the conference hotel, the Stephen F. Austin InterContinental
in downtown Austin, includes rates from $99 to $129 per night.
Additional hotel and dormitory lodging options are also be available.

Questions may be addressed to Tory Ondrla, ACRL Meeting and Special
Events Planner at [log in to unmask]


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