[Libri] Terry Belanger visit Monday

[Prof. James Wald (der Geist, der stets verneint)]

To members of the Centaur Society and other Pioneer Valley bibliophiles:



Having just learned that Terry Belanger, the director of Rare Book  
School at the University of Virginia, will be in our neighborhood for  
a brief visit next week, we have asked him to meet with our new  
society and any other interested bibliophiles and make some brief  
remarks about the current state of the rare books and special  
collections world and of future RBS initiatives in the offing.



Please join us at an informal session with Professor Belanger at 4:30  
pm on Monday, September 12, in the Special Collections and Archives  
Department on the 25th floor of W.E.B. Du Bois Library at  
theUniversity of Massachusetts. We'd like to stress that this will be  
an informal meeting so you may come whenever you are able. We should  
be out by 6:00 pm.



Certain recent developments have suggested to some of us that the  
bookish world we have found so congenial, a world that comprises  
scholars, book arts craftspeople, booksellers, collectors and library  
adminstrators, is becoming increasingly, perhaps dangerously,  
marginalized. As this country's leading educator of rare book  
professionals Terry Belanger in uniquely qualified to offer  
assessment and recommendation and, one hopes, succor. For a detailed  
record of his career seehttp://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/tbvita.html.



If you can make it please call one of the undersigned to RSVP. Hope  
to see you at our first meeting of the season!



Rob Cox, University of Massachusetts (545-6842) Martin Antonetti,  
Smith College (585-2907)







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   Robert S. Cox

   Head, Special Collections

   W.E.B. Du Bois Library, 154 Hicks Way

   University of Massachsetts, Amherst

   Amherst, MA    01003-9275

        (413) 545-6842

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