RBMS Guidelines for Borrowing and Lending Special Collections Materials

The RBMS Task Force for the Guidelines for Borrowing and Lending
Special Collections Materials solicits final comments on the draft
guidelines, ACRL/RBMS Guidelines for Interlibrary and Exhibition
Loan of Special Collections Materials. The Task Force has been
working for 1 1/2 years to review, update, and revise the 2004
revised Guidelines for the Interlibrary Loan of Rare and Unique
Material and the 2005 revised Guidelines for Borrowing and Lending
Special Collections Material for Exhibition. The new guidelines
combine these two documents into a single set of guidelines for
borrowing and lending special collections material.

The Task Force has held public hearings and disseminated earlier
drafts and now seeks commentary on its current draft in advance of
final review at the ALA Annual meeting, June 2011. The draft is
announced on the RBMS Website at

    <URL:http://new.rbms.info/?q=node/69>

with this draft:

    <URL:http://rbms.info/committees/task_force/borrowing/
        RBMS_Borrowing-Lending_Draft_4-1-11.pdf>

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Please send comments by May 1, 2011, to

    Hjordis Halvorson
    Task Force Chair
    halvorsonh<-a t->newberry< . >org

Hjordis Halvorson
Vice President for Library Services
Newberry Library
60 W. Walton
Chicago, IL  60610
312-255-3590

Giselle Simon
Director of Conservation Services
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610
312-255-3549


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