Sponsorship
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) plays a leading role in local, national, and international special collections communities. As an RBMS sponsor, you will have a targeted reach, measurable returns, and access to our national network of rare books and manuscripts librarians. Strengthen your ties with special collections librarians and outshine your competition by becoming an RBMS Conference Sponsor. For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Athena Jackson, Chair of RBMS.
Sponsorship Benefits
Folio Circle ($3,000 and up)
- Cosponsorship of Reception at Xavier University of Louisiana (Claimed Anonymous Donor and GALE, A Cengage Company)
- Scholarship Breakfast ($2,500), New Members’ Mixer ($1,500), & Poster Sessions ($2,100) – $6,100 (Claimed by Atlas Systems)
- Welcome Reception – $5,000 (Claimed by Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America)
- Wireless Internet Access – $5,000 (Claimed by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.)
- Booksellers’ Showcase Coffee Breaks Wednesday – $4,000 (Claimed by Henry Sotheran Limited)
- Conference Tote Bag – $3,500 (Claimed by William Reese Company)
- Content Sponsorship – $3,000 (Claimed by Iowa State University Library)
- Transportation – $3,000 (Claimed by John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller)
- Vade Mecum – $3,000 (Claimed by Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company)
- General Conference Support $3,000 and up (RBMS thanks Penn State University Libraries)
Quarto Circle ($1,500-$2,999)
- Plenary Sessions – $2,000 each
- Plenary 1: Workplace (Claimed by Sotheby’s)
- Plenary 2: Materiality (Claimed by Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers)
- Plenary 3: Environment (Claimed by Bonhams)
- Plenary 1: Workplace (Claimed by Sotheby’s)
- General Conference Support $1,500 – $2,999
Octavo Circle ($750-$1,499)
- First-time Attendee Orientation – $1,250
- Workshops – $750 each (Tentative titles below, last two are half day)
- Workshop 1: Cataloging Rare Materials Using RDF (Claimed Langdon Manor Books, LLC)
- Workshop 2: Born Digital Access Bootcamp (Claimed by Read’Em Again Books)
- Workshop 3: Transcribing Seventeenth-Century Handwriting (Claimed by Voyager Press Rare Books and Manuscripts)
- Workshop 4: Logic Models / Outcomes Based Management (Claimed by Tavistock Books)
- Workshop 1: Cataloging Rare Materials Using RDF (Claimed Langdon Manor Books, LLC)
- General Conference Support – $750-$1,499 (RBMS thanks Adam Matthew Digital and Liber Antiquus, Early Printed Books & Manuscripts)
Duodecimo Circle ($250 – $749)
- Seminars – $600 each
- Seminar: Invisible Labor: Archives, Digital Scholarship, and Automation (Claimed by QED Appraisal Group, LLC)
- Seminar: Beyond Outreach: Working with Students and Classes as Curators (Claimed by Bromer Booksellers, Inc.)
- Seminar: Hybrid Collections: Working Across Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Claimed by Liber Antiquus, Early Printed Books & Manuscripts)
- Seminar: From DCRM Manuals to RBMS Policy Statements (Claimed by The Bibliographical Society of America)
- Seminar: Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Gathering Data and Exploring Professional Implications for a Very Different Future
- Seminar: 360 Inclusion (Claimed by Iowa State University Library)
- Seminar: The Afterlife of Collections: Library Life in Post-custodial Times (Claimed Martayan Lan)
- Paper Sessions – $400 each
- Papers Panel: The Value of Diverse Collections: Changing collections, Institutions and Researchers (Claimed by Iowa State University Library)
- Papers Panel: The Mizzou Material Culture Group: Convergences among Libraries, Archives and Museums at the University of Missouri
- Papers Panel: Transforming Knowledge, Transforming Libraries: Community-Centered Archives in the Classroom (Claimed by Iowa State University Library)
- Papers Panel: Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans (Claimed Lux Mentis, Booksellers)
- Papers Panel: Snap Shots: Documenting Student Life Using Snapchat
- Papers Panel: Does distinctive mean diverse?: Exploring the convergence of special and area studies collections (Claimed Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare, LLC)
- Papers Panel: Disruptive Convergences: Breaking the Canon (Claimed Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare, LLC)
- Papers Panel: Collection Development Opportunity or Collections Management Burden? (Claimed by Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts)
- Evaluating the Operational Impact of Collections Stewardship
- Papers Panel: Converging Collections: Collaboration and Absence in Special Collections (Claimed by Iowa State University Library)
- Papers Panel: Converging Collections: Why Special Collections Needs to Think About Shared Print Collections (Claimed Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts)
- Papers Panel: Collections and Culture – Case Studies on Archives and Place (Claimed Northeast Document Conservation Center)
- Papers Panel: Diversity Within Collections: Strategies for Fostering Access
- Papers Panel: From North Carolina to Yucatan: Maya from the Margins (Claimed Maggs Bros. Ltd.)
- Papers Panel: Virtual, Mechanical, Invisible, and Radical: Rochester Convergences Across Town and Across Disciplines
- Papers Panel: Extraordinary Repositories (Claimed Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books)
- Participant Driven Session – $300 each
- Participant-Driven: Converging Around Ethical Questions in Special Collections (Claimed California Rare Book School)
- Participant-Driven: The Work of Continuing Work: Strategies for Success in Achieving Tenure, Moving up, and Finding Job Satisfaction
- Participant-Driven: RBMS and SAA: An Open Discussion on Opportunities and Synergies Between our Affinity Groups (Claimed Bartleby’s Books)
- Participant-Driven: Being the Expert in the Room, Not Necessarily the Expert in the Field (yet) (Claimed by Iowa State University Library)
- Participant-Driven: Q & A with RBMS Leaders (Claimed by Iowa State University Library)
- Participant-Driven: RBMS 2019: Engaging the Community on Next Year’s Conference
- Participant-Driven: Security and Access: Conflicts and Convergences (Claimed bookandpaperfairs.com)
- Participant-Driven: So you want to be a Conference Moderator (Claimed Athena Jackson, Penn State University/RBMS Section Chair)
- General Support $250 – $749
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- Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
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