<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><BR><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">To members of the Centaur Society and other </SPAN><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Pioneer</SPAN></ST1:PLACENAME><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Valley</SPAN></ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> bibliophiles:</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">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.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">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 the</SPAN><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">University</SPAN></ST1:PLACETYPE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> of </SPAN><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Massachusetts</SPAN></ST1:PLACENAME></ST1:PLACE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">. 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.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">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 see</SPAN><A href="http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/tbvita.html"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/tbvita.html</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">If you can make it please call one of the undersigned to RSVP. Hope to see you at our first meeting of the season!</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Rob Cox, </SPAN><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">University</SPAN></ST1:PLACETYPE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> of </SPAN><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Massachusetts</SPAN></ST1:PLACENAME><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> (545-6842) Martin Antonetti, </SPAN><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Smith</SPAN></ST1:PLACENAME><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; ">College</SPAN></ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> (585-2907)</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" courier="" new";="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><O:P style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Garamond"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">__________________________________</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Garamond"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; "> Robert S. Cox</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Garamond"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; "> Head, Special Collections</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Garamond"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; "> W.E.B. Du Bois Library, </SPAN><ST1:STREET w:st="on"><ST1:ADDRESS w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">154 Hicks Way</SPAN></ST1:ADDRESS></ST1:STREET></SPAN></FONT><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Garamond"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">University</SPAN></ST1:PLACETYPE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; "> of </SPAN><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">Massachsetts</SPAN></ST1:PLACENAME></ST1:PLACE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">, Amherst</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Garamond"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:CITY w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">Amherst</SPAN></ST1:CITY><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">, </SPAN><ST1:STATE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">MA</SPAN></ST1:STATE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN><ST1:POSTALCODE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">01003</SPAN></ST1:POSTALCODE></ST1:PLACE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">-9275</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Garamond"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; "> (413) 545-6842</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Garamond"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Garamond; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 16px; ">___________________________________</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></P></DIV></DIV></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>