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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.
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