Participants will ride by bus to Hagley Museum and Library and will spend a morning discovering highlights of the library’s collections of books, prints, ephemera, and more. The participants will then travel to the University of Delaware’s Morris Library in Newark, Delaware, for lunch (included), followed by a tour of the library’s Special Collections’ Books and Manuscripts, as well as the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, the latter of which will be conducted by Mark Samuels Lasner. Transportation for this tour is generously sponsored by the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press.
Schedule: 8:00 a.m. Board bus at Baltimore Marriott 9:30 a.m. Arrive Hagley Museum and Library 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Tour of Hagley Library 12:00-12:30 p.m. Travel to University of Delaware Morris Library 1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch at Morris Library 2:00-4:00 p.m. Tour of UD Special Collections and Mark Samuels Lasner Collection in Morris Library 4:00 p.m. Board bus at Morris Library 5:30 p.m. Arrive back at conference hotel in Baltimore
Cost: $30/person, includes lunch, maximum 24 people Registration: Advance registration required. Select this tour on the RBMS 2019 registration form.
