Events
The Philadelphia Local Arrangements Committee is proud to offer the following special events during the 2010 RBMS Preconference. Additional details will be posted as they develop, and you are welcome to contact Local Arrangements Committee co-chair Ruth Hughes with any questions.
- Booksellers’ Showcase
- Conference Orientation
- Tours
- Receptions and Outings
- Exhibitions
Booksellers' Showcase
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) is presenting a Booksellers' Showcase on Tuesday, June 22, in the Ormandy Ballroom of the Doubletree Hotel, the main meeting venue. The showcase will feature 38 ABAA member exhibitors. It will be open continuously from 9:30am through 7:30pm, culminating in a welcome reception from 6:00-7:30pm. Thanks to the enthusiasm of ABAA's membership, this will be the largest Booksellers' Showcase ever presented at RBMS. We encourage you to visit the showcase and enjoy meeting booksellers, catch up with colleagues, and browse books.
Pound Ridge, NY |
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Boston, MA |
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New York, NY |
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Chevy Chase, MD |
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Stuart Bennett Rare Books |
Mill Valley, CA |
Gloucester City, NJ |
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Scarborough, ME |
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Southampton, MA |
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Wilmington, DE |
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Boston, MA |
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Takoma Park, MD |
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New York, NY |
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Alfred, ME |
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Tolland, CT |
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Charlottesville, VA |
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San Francisco, CA |
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Johanson Rare Books |
Baltimore, MD |
Salisbury, CT |
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Kennebunkport, ME |
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Baltimore, MD |
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Clark, NJ |
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Narberth, PA |
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Musinksy Rare Books, Inc. |
New York, NY |
New Castle, DE |
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Jenkintown, PA |
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Philadelphia, PA |
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Bratenahl, OH |
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L & T Respess Books |
Charlottesville, VA |
Baltimore, MD |
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St. Paul, MN |
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Barry Scott |
Kingston, RI |
Ann Arbor, MI |
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Gloucester, MA |
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John Waite Rare Books |
Ascutney, VT |
Michael R. Weintraub, Inc. |
New York, NY |
Crozet, VA |
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Bay City, MI |
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New Haven, CT |
Conference Orientation
- Conference Orientation and Introduction to RBMS
If this is your first RBMS preconference, or you would like to learn more about RBMS and opportunities to get involved, plan to attend the Conference Orientation and Introduction to RBMS session on Tuesday evening from 5–6pm in the Doubletree Hotel Orchestra Room. The welcome reception immediately follows. - New Members' Social
Immediately following the welcome reception—at about 7:30pm—an optional social outing will be held at a nearby restaurant. All are welcome; the event is designed to enable new members to get to know each other as well as to become acquainted with established RBMS members and leaders. The New Members' Social is a great way to kick off the preconference for everyone. Details will be posted as they become available.
For an Additional Fee | Free Tours
Advance registration and an additional fee are required for the following tours.
Friday
- Delaware Day - 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., $75 (lunch not included)
This trip will include a tour of the University of Delaware Special Collections and the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, followed by a visit to the Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, where participants can eat lunch on their own in the cafeteria before seeing the garden, the house, and the galleries. The visit will conclude with a special tour of the Winterthur library. The tour bus will stop at Wilmington Amtrak station before returning to Philadelphia. Participants traveling on to the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. can feel confident purchasing Amtrak tickets for trains leaving at 5:26 p.m. or later. - Historic Germantown Day - 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., $35 (lunch not included)
This trip will begin with a visit to the Lutheran Theological Seminary to see its collection of early German-American imprints. This will be followed by visits to other important printing- and book-related Germantown sites, including the Historic RittenhouseTown, where paper was first made in the colonies, before lunch, and Germantown Historical Society, which holds many early records on Germantown, or a special walking tour by John Pollack of the University of Pennsylvania of important printing/library sites along Germantown Avenue immediately following lunch. The day will conclude with a visit to Stenton, the country home of James Logan, where participants will be treated to afternoon tea and a talk by James Green of the Library Company on the Logan Library. Lunch will be at the historic Valley Green Inn. Transportation for this tour is generously sponsored by the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia - Barnes Foundation - 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., $50
This tour provides visitors with the opportunity to see the Barnes Foundation, whose world-renowned collection will soon be moving to new quarters in Center City Philadelphia, while it is still in its original location. Participants will receive a special tour of the library and archive. Please note that not all the collection will be on view during the tour. Approximately one quarter of the galleries will be closed in preparation for the move. - National Archives and Records Administration Mid-Atlantic Region - 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., $35 - This Tour Has been Canceled
This is a special tour of the Mid Atlantic Region's Federal Records Center, which serves Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia. Participants will get the chance to see how the National Archives and Records Administration helps the federal government manage and store the millions of records its produces every year.
Free Tours | For an Additional Fee
The Local Arrangements Committee has organized a number of special, behind the scenes tours of many Philadelphia cultural institutions for participants in the 2010 RBMS Preconference. These tours will take place on Tuesday 6/22, Thursday 6/24, and Friday 6/25 afternoons, and are free (except for a small entrance fee for the Masonic Temple), but they DO require that you register in advance, as the numbers for each tour are limited. Click on the links below to register. This is your opportunity to visit a few of the places that make Philadelphia such a rich and interesting city!
Deadline:
Space is limited, first come, first served until FRIDAY, JUNE 11 midnight CST. If your preference is full, please check at the registration desk onsite for any remaining availability.
Please:
*Only register for tours you actually plan to attend as there are limited spaces available on each tour.
*Do not sign up for two tours that are at the same date/time. In most cases, it is only possible to attend one tour each day.
*Provide your e-mail address so we can notify you in case of tour changes or cancellations.
*Note the date, time and details of your tour so you remember what you signed up for upon arriving in Philadelphia.
TUESDAY, JUNE 22 TOURS
Combined Walking Tour: Historical Society, Natural Sciences, Free Library, 1 - 4pm
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Rosenbach Museum and Library, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Library, Archives and Visual & Digital Resources Center, 2 - 3pm
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Mütter Museum, 2 - 3pm
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Combined Tour: Library Company & Historical Society, 2 - 3:30pm
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Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, 2 - 3:30pm
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Masonic Temple and Library ($4.50 entrance fee), 2 - 4pm
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THURSDAY, JUNE 24 TOURS
Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1 - 2:30pm
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Independence Seaport Museum, 1 - 3pm
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American Philosophical Society, 1:30 - 3pm
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The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2 - 3pm
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Union League, 3:30 - 4pm
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FRIDAY, JUNE 25 TOURS
Temple/Wagner, 1 - 5pm
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University City Archives, 1 - 5pm
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Receptions and Outings
Tuesday
- Welcome Reception
A welcome reception, sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) and Michael Brown Rare Books, will be held on Tuesday evening from 6–7:30pm at the Doubletree Hotel, in the Ormandy Ballroom where the ABAA Booksellers’ Showcase will take place. The showcase will remain open during the reception. - New Members' Social.
Beginning at 7:30 p.m., immediately following the welcome reception, an outing for new members will be held at Time Restaurant (1315 Sansom St.), within easy walking distance of the hotel. A specially designed dinner menu will be available for $25 plus tax and gratuity (vegetarian option also available). Enjoy dinner, drinks, music and getting to know other new members and RBMS leaders.
Wednesday
- Scholarship Recipients' Breakfast
A breakfast for scholarship recipients will be held from 7:30–8:30am in the Doubletree Hotel. Scholarship winners will have a chance to meet one another and RBMS and ACRL leadership. This event is by invitation only.
- Book Arts Open House, Wednesday
The University of the Arts and the Philadelphia Center for the Book, in conjunction with the 2010 RBMS Preconference Local Arrangements Committee, will host a Philadelphia book arts fair and reception. During the evening, guests will be invited to join in a simple bookmaking project, constructing a single sheet folded dos-a-dos book, and take a 6:30 pm tour of the University of the Arts Book Arts facilities, including the Graduate Book Arts bindery, the lithography and screen-printing facilities, the new letterpress and editionaing studios, and the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts. The event will be held in Dorrance Hamilton Hall, 320 South Broad Street (corner of Broad & Pine Streets), a short walk down Broad Street from the Doubletree Hotel. Light refreshments will be provided, courtesy of Atlas Systems, Inc.
- Restaurant Night
After meeting Philadelphia’s vibrant book arts community, you may want to participate in Restaurant Night, a preconference tradition. Led by local volunteers, small groups of conference participants visit some of Philadelphia’s best restaurants. Everyone will be responsible for the cost of his or her own meal, and there will be several restaurants with a range of prices to choose from. Sign-up sheets will be available at the Registration table.
- For those who prefer to go it alone, there will be lists and maps of the many restaurants renowned for making Philadelphia a destination site for food lovers.
Thursday
- Union League of Philadelphia Reception
The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) invites you to attend a special reception at the Union League of Philadelphia after that evening’s plenary session. The reception will take place from 6:00 until 7:30pm, and will include opportunities to see the Union League's library.
Exhibitions
- American Philosophical Society
Dialogues with Darwin: An Exhibition of Historical Documents and Contemporary Art On view until October 17, 2010 at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum
104 South Fifth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
www.apsmuseum.org
Dialogues with Darwin, an exhibition drawn from the American Philosophical Society’s own Darwin collection—the largest outside of Cambridge, England—celebrates the Darwin’s 200th birthday and the sesquicentennial of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species. The exhibition traces the history of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection for more than a century, beginning prior to the 1830s, when Darwin jotted down his first thoughts about evolution, and continuing into the 1940s, when his theory was accepted as the basis for all life sciences.
- Free Library of Philadelphia
Trying Times, an exhibition of materials from the Hampton Carson Collection on the Growth and Development of the Common Law, will be on view at the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Rare Book Department.
The Free Library of Philadelphia
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
www.freelibrary.org
- Library Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia (1828-1878) On view March 18, 2010-October 15, 2010 At the Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
www.librarycompany.org
The exhibition, part of Philagrafika 2010, promotes the history of Philadelphia lithography and its impact on contemporary visual culture. The main exhibition gallery will contain installations that explicate the history and process of lithography, document the professional and personal lives of premier and journeymen lithographers, and include selections of 19th-centrury Philadelphia lithographs and the work of two contemporary lithographers, Kip Deeds and Roberta Delaney.
- Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
No Woman's Chit-Chat: Argula von Grumbach 16th Century Public ‘Theologian’
Brossman Exhibition Hall, 306
Hours: Monday – Friday 9 – 5.
7301 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19119-1794
215-248-4616
http://www.ltsp.edu
Upon hearing that the faculty of Ingolstadt University had forced Arsacius Seehofer, an 18 year-old instructor, to recant his Lutheranism publicly, Hohenstaufen baroness Argula von Grumbach decided to fight back. Her weapon of choice was the latest in the communications arsenal – the pamphlet. In a society that excluded women from church, university, and public office, this was a sensational initiative. The exhibit features six of Argula’s pamphlets, editions of the Bible whose words and woodcuts inspired her – the 1483 Koberger German Bible and 1523 Luther New Testament - her confession of faith in the first Protestant martyrology of Ludwig Rabus (1554-1558) as well as some very rare 19th century secondary literature about her. - University of Pennsylvania
Reading Pictures: Sixteenth-century European Illustrated Books
Kamin Gallery, 1st floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA
215-898-7088
Exhibition dates: March 1st - August 15th, 2010 More information: jpollack@upenn.edu
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/readingpictures.html
This exhibition surveys European book illustration during the sixteenth century. Examples include the very best - but also the most typical - and all come from Penn's rich collections of sixteenth-century European printing. Their wide variety of styles and subjects illuminate what early modern book illustrators provided readers in an environment visually far less rich than the one we take for granted. Religion, labor, science, warfare, costume, medicine, portraits, exotic places, and more - all these topics found their way not only into words but also into pictures. Opening up Penn's books not for their texts but their illustrations offers an entirely new way to see them.
