<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;" id="ydp22a362addocs-internal-guid-1f523b49-7fff-07ad-f5f7-3b0289ab28d2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">The Bibliographic Standards Committee (BSC) of the ACRL* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) is committed to increasing programming related to cataloging, metadata, and technical services at RBMS conferences. Currently, we are seeking topics within these three areas to pursue for the RBMS 2026 Conference, which will take place from June 23-26 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and online.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">We recognize that proposal writing can be time-consuming, especially if you’ve not done it before. If you have a topic idea and are willing to write a session proposal, BSC's Program Planning Group will provide assistance and guidance in drafting the proposal. We would like to have potential topics by </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday, October 10th, 2025</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">. BSC will then decide which topics to pursue and we will reach out to presenters to begin drafting proposals for eventual submission to the RBMS 2026 Conference.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Please fill out this form (</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTwe2iE3Q18j98vJGLijcMna69wiskvQyvfM75XRJ8am8jZw/viewform" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTwe2iE3Q18j98vJGLijcMna69wiskvQyvfM75XRJ8am8jZw/viewform</a>) <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">if you have a potential topic that you would like to present. This form will not go to the RBMS 2026 Conference Planning Committee. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">It can be less formal than an official conference proposal and include ideas that you are still working through.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">If you submit a topic, here is the full timeline for working with BSC on your topic:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">October 10th:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;"> Topics due to BSC.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">October 29th - November 5th:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;"> BSC votes on all submitted topics. BSC’s Program Planning Group will remove identifying information from the proposals. BSC will pursue up to four topics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Early November: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Topic proposers are notified if BSC is pursuing their topic or not. Proposers of successful topics will be able to ask BSC’s Program Planning Group for assistance in writing their proposal.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Late November or Early December: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Two weeks before the deadline for the RBMS Conference, proposals are due to BSC via BSC’s Program Planning Group. BSC will have access to anonymous proposals and vote to endorse them or not endorse them.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Mid-December: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Proposers submit proposals through the RBMS 2026 Conference website. For the past two years, RBMS proposals were due in Mid-December. At this point, the RBMS Conference Planning Committee will make decisions about proposals and BSC cannot make any more decisions about the proposals.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">*ACRL = Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">On behalf of BSC,</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Benjamin Eskin Shapson</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">Processing Archivist</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; vertical-align: baseline;">East Texas A & M University</span></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>