8am-5pm Registration, Edinburgh Hall, Tremont Grand 9am-5pm Booksellers’ Showcase, Edinburgh Hall, Tremont Grand 9am-4pm Workshop
Cataloging and Organizing Ephemera - Charles Commons Conference Center, Multipurpose Room.
Instructors: Eleanor Brown, Cornell University; Ann W. Copeland, Penn State University; Todd Fell, Yale University; Jane Gillis, Yale University; Stephen Skuce, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additional $85.00 registration fee. Workshop held at The Johns Hopkins University. . 9am-4pm Workshop
The New Philanthropic Environment: Fundraising for Libraries, Museums and Archives - Charles Commons Conference Center, Salon A.
Instructors: Lisa Browar, The New School, New York; Chris Foley, University of Pennsylvania. Additional $85.00 registration fee. Workshop held at The Johns Hopkins University. 2pm-4pm Tours and Open Houses
Maryland Historical Society, Special Collections of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Institute for the History of Medicine.
Walking Tour of Mount Vernon. 5pm-6pm Conference Orientation and Introduction to RBMS - Composite Room, Tremont Grand 6:30pm-8:30pm Opening Reception, George Peabody Library - 17 East Mount Vernon Place.
All sessions held at the Tremont Grand 8am-12:30pm Registration, Edinburgh Hall, Tremont Grand
2pm-5pm Registration, Colonnade, Tremont Grand 8am-11am Leab Exhibit Awards Display, Edinburgh Hall, Tremont Grand 8:30am-10:30am
Plenary I—Keynote address Mirror Room, Tremont Grand
8:30am-8:45am Welcoming Remarks:
Julian Lapides, Chairman, American Antiquarian Society
8:45am-9:00am Introductory Remarks:
Henry Raine, Chair, Preconference Program Committee;
Cynthia Requardt, Chair, Preconference Local Arrangements The Long-Term Significance of Printed Ephemera.
Michael Twyman, Emeritus Professor, Centre for Ephemera Studies, University of Reading
Moderator: Henry Raine, New-York Historical Society
Co-sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America
10:30am-11am Break and refreshments - Edinburgh Hall, Tremont Grand 11:00am-12:30pm
Plenary II—Scholarly Uses of Ephemera Mirror Room, Tremont Grand Reconstructing the Prototype of the Consumer Culture-Ben Hur, 1880-1925.
Jon Solomon, Department of the Classics,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Fan Dancing and Fan Belts: Selling Optimism at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
Cheryl R. Ganz, Curator of Philately, Smithsonian National Postal Museum Moderator: Erika Dowell, Lilly Library, Indiana University 12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own
2:00pm-3:30pm
Seminar A
Inherent Vice: Preserving Collections’ Deadly Sins - Composite Room, Tremont Grand.
Speakers: Jennifer Hain Teper, Conservation Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julie Biggs, previously the Senior Paper Conservator at the Folger Shakespeare Library; Elissa O'Loughlin, Senior Paper Conservator at the Walters Art Museum.
Moderator: Tara Kennedy Seminar B
Curators and Cataloguers Revisit Decisions about Description: The Greene/Meissner Proposal - Tuscan Room, Tremont Grand.
Speakers: Dennis Meissner, Acting Head of Collections Management, Minnesota Historical Society, "More for Less: Research and Findings"; Helena Zinkham, Head of Technical Services, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, "Use, Value, Condition: Criteria for Choosing Effective Processing Levels for Ephemeral Materials"; Tom Hyry, Head of the Manuscript Unit, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University "This Archival Life: Fighting Backlogs in Three Acts".
Moderator: Jackie Dooley, University of California, Irvine Seminar C
Culinary Arts Ephemera Seminar - Ionic Room, Tremont Grand.
Speakers: Rebecca Federman, Social Sciences Bibliographer, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, New York Public Library; Nina Nazionale, Associate Director for Library Administration, New-York Historical Society; Jessy Randall, Curator and Archivist, Colorado College Special Collections
Moderator: Erika Dowell, Public Services Librarian, Indiana University Lilly Library 2:00pm-3:30pm Tours
Special Collections of the Enoch Pratt Free Library
Maryland Historical Society Prints and Photographs Division
Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department 3:30pm-4pm Break and refreshments - Colonnade, Tremont Grand 4:00pm-5:30pm
Seminar D
Where Does Special Collections Cataloging Belong? The Pros and Cons of Alternative Reporting Structures in Academic and Research Libraries - Composite Room, Tremont Grand.
Speakers: Beth Whittaker, The Ohio State University, "Why should anyone care? How academic libraries organize this function"; Margaret Nichols, Head, Special Materials Unit, Library Technical Services, Cornell University, "Changes in one particular organization: Lessons learned"; William Gosling, Curator, Children's Literature Collection and former University Librarian, University of Michigan, "The Administrator's Perspective"
Moderator: Beth Whittaker, Head, Special Collections Cataloging, The Ohio State University Libraries Seminar E
Rare Books and Manuscripts Through the Literary Looking Glass - Tuscan Room, Tremont Grand.
Speakers: Margaret Sherry Rich, Princeton Rare Books and Special Collections; Caryn Radick, Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives; Richard Macksey, Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center
Moderator: Margaret Sherry Rich, Reference Librarian/Archivist, Princeton Rare Books and Special Collections Seminar F
Collaborative Digitization Projects With Diverse Partnerships – Advantages, Challenges, Rewards - Ionic Room, Tremont Grand.
Speakers: Katherine Kott, Director, Digital Library Federation Aquifer www.diglib.org/aquifer; Nancy Milnor, Connecticut History Online www.cthistoryonline.org/project/index.htm; Matthew Beacom, Yale Collections Collaborative, yale.edu/collections_collaborative/index.html
Moderator: Kenneth Giese, Rare Book School, University of Virginia 6pm-8pm Reception Walters Art Museum - 600 N Charles Street
All sessions held at The Johns Hopkins University 8am-8:30am Buses depart for the Homewood Campus of The Johns Hopkins University from the Tremont Plaza Hotel 8am-12:30pm Registration, Hodson Hall lobby, JHU 9:00am-10:30am
Plenary III—Ephemera and the Trade Hodson Hall 110, JHU
Ephemera: The Dealer's Contribution. (Panel)
Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris, aGatherin’;
David Margolis and Jean Moss, Margolis and Moss
Moderator: Daniel J. Slive, William Reese Company 10:30am-11am Break and refreshments - Hodson Hall terrace, JHU 11:00am-12:30pm
Plenary IV—Ephemera: Collectors and Collecting Hodson Hall 110, JHU Ephemeral Guides of the Medically Perplexed. William H. Helfand Spinning Straw into Gold: Gilding Junk through Collecting. William P. Barlow, Jr. Moderator: Eric Holzenberg, The Grolier Club 12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own or pick-up pre-ordered box lunch at the Glass Pavilion. 2:00pm-3:30pm Short Papers
Group I: Into the Classroom - Hodson Hall 110, JHU Teaching with Ephemera.
Julia Gardner and David Pavelich, Reference and Instruction Librarians, Special Collections Research Center, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago. Bringing Ephemera into the Mainstream of Literary Studies.
Sally O'Driscoll, Associate Professor, English, Fairfield University. The Shapes Jane Eyre Takes: Ephemeral Responses to the Book and Its Themes.
Barbara Heritage, Curator of Collections, Rare Book School, University of Virginia. Moderator: Marguerite Ragnow, James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota Group II: Window Into History and Culture - Hodson Hall 110, JHU Ephemera as Cultural Historical Evidence: Rescuing the History of Ethnic Communities.
Laura Uhlman, Librarian, Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. A Network and Its Ephemera Before the Internet: The Hidden Treasures and Clear Challenges of Apazines.
Gregory J. Prickman, Special Collections Librarian, University of Iowa Libraries. Collection Detective: Tracking the Lives of Objects through Ephemera.
Felicia Wivchar, Curatorial Research Assistant, US House of Representatives, Collection of Fine Arts and Artifacts, Office of History and Preservation. Moderator: Kathleen Teresa Burns, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Group III: Collecting and Its Varieties - Remsen Hall 1, JHU With Deft Knife and Paste: The Extra-Illustrated Books of John M. Wing.
Jill Gage, Reference Librarian, The Newberry Library. Chinese Ritual Paper Offerings, ‘Joss’ – Sacred yet Temporary.
Evelyn Khoo, MA (East Asian History)/MLS Candidate, University of Maryland. Collecting Medical Ephemera in the 18th and 20th Centuries.
Julianne Simpson, Rare Books Librarian, Wellcome Library. Moderator: Arlene Shaner, New York Academy of Medicine Group IV: Access Issues - Remsen Hall 101, JHU Digitizing Ephemera: Criteria for Assessing Materials.
Joan E. Beaudoin, Ph.D. Student and IMLS Fellow, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University. Expecting the Unexpected : Hidden Ephemera in Modern Literary Collections.
Alison Hinderliter, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, the Newberry Library. Variety of Methods for Cataloging Ephemera: One Size Does Not Fit All …
Steven Kiczek, Cataloging Librarian, Malcolm A. Love Library, San Diego State University. Moderator: Sarah Schmidt Fisher, University of Delaware 2:00pm-3:30pm Tours 3:30pm-4pm Break and refreshments - Hodson Terrace, JHU 4:00pm-5:30pm
Seminar G
Collecting Contemporary Events - Maryland Hall 110, JHU
Speakers: Alison Scott, Charles Warren Bibliographer for American History, Widener Library, Harvard University, "Dog Heroes of September 11th: Why Junk Belongs in Research Libraries;" Peter Hanff, Deputy Director of Bancroft Library, "Documenting Social Action Movements;" Brent K. Jesiek, Ph.D, Manager, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC), Virginia Tech and Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC), Virginia Tech, "The April 16 Archive: Collecting and Preserving the Stories of the Virginia Tech Tragedy."
Moderator: Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Assistant Curator, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Houghton Library, Harvard University Seminar H
Context or Lost Code: Reading Scrapbooks for Research - Remsen Hall 101, JHU
Speakers: Susan Tucker, Newcomb Center for Research on Women, Tulane University; Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; Patricia P. Buckler, English Department, Indiana University Northwest.
Moderator: L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin, University of Delaware Library Seminar I
Bibliographic Databases for Special Collections: an update - Hodson Hall 110, JHU
Speakers: Marian Lefferts, Executive Manager, Consortium of European Libraries. Henry Snyder, Director of the Center for Bibliographical Studies & Research, University of California, at Riverside. John Tuck, Head of British Collections, British Library.
Moderator: E.C. Schroeder, Head of Technical Services, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University 5:45pm Buses depart for Evergreen House - tentatively from Hodson Hall drive 6pm-9pm Picnic Dinner, Evergreen House, 4545 N Charles Street 8:30pm-9:30pm Buses depart for the hotel
All sessions held at the Tremont Grand 8:00am-8:45am Continental Breakfast, Edinburgh Hall, Tremont Grand 9:00am-10:30am
Plenary V—Ephemera in Institutions: Libraries, Museums, Digital Projects Mirror Room, Tremont Grand
Why Not Ephemera: The Emergence of Ephemera in Libraries.
Georgia B. Barnhill Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts, American Antiquarian Society The Truth is in the Details: Ephemera in Museum Collections and Exhibitions.
Nicolas Ricketts, Curator, Strong National Museum of Play Fugitive Bytes: Ephemera's Digital Horizons
John Nicholas Pull, Web Specialist, Library of Congress Moderator: Barbara Paulson 10:30am-11am Break and refreshments, Edinburgh Room, Tremont Grand 11:00am-12:30pm
Plenary VI—Conference Wrap-up Mirror Room, Tremont Grand Immortalising the Mayfly. Permanent Ephemera:an Illusion or a (Virtual) Reality?
Julie Anne Lambert, John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library Moderator: Maguerite Ragnow, James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota
Co-sponsored by the Ephemera Society of America
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