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CILIP RARE BOOKS GROUP
2004 ANNUAL STUDY CONFERENCE
"Rare Book Futures: curating collections in the 21st
century"
Weds 1-Fri 3 September 2004.
University of Sussex (Brighton).
For more details and how to book, see
http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/rbg/events.html
(Bursaries available, see below).
The conference is designed to help rare books librarians
develop a "toolkit" of the managerial and technical skills
they need to bring their collections to life. These skills
include publicity and marketing (exhibitions, web design,
publishing), policies (acquisition and disposal), project
management, fund-raising and training. Rare Books Group
members who have already received their conference mailing
may be interested to see that further speakers and
workshops have since been confirmed: we are delighted to
announce that Phil Bradley (of Internet Q&A in CILIP
Update) will be running our web workshop and Ed Maggs (of
Maggs Brothers) will be giving us a bookseller's perspective
on collecting policies.
The conference dinner will be in the magnificent Royal
Pavilion and includes a tour of this spectacular building.
The programme also offers visits to several local libraries
and archives, including the Royal Pavilion's Archive,
University of Sussex Special Collections (Mass Observation,
Rudyard Kipling Archive), and the Brighton City Library
(rare book collection).
The CILIP Rare Books Group can offer a limited number of
bursaries to fund attendance at the conference to paid up
members of the Group (in subscription rate categories
I,J,K,L,M,N,O,Q i.e. students, unemployed, earning
less than GBP 17,000 pa). For details and how to apply
for bursaries, see
http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/rbg/events.html#confbursaries
**Please note that the deadline for bursary applications is
May 31st 2004**.
If you have further queries about the Conference, please
contact me (Alison Cullingford, e-mail
A.Cullingford@bradford.ac.uk) or Mary Nixon of the
University of Sussex (e-mail: M.C.Nixon@sussex.ac.uk).
All the best
Alison
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Now available - May 2004 issue of "Special Collections News"
http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/special/newsletters.php
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Alison Cullingford
Special Collections Librarian
J.B. Priestley Library
University of Bradford
Bradford. BD7 1DP. UK.
a.cullingford@bradford.ac.uk
+44 (0)1274-235256
Fax: +44 (0)1274-233398
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/library/special