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Welcome!
The registration deadline has been extended to Monday, March 23, 2009 (clink on “Registration” above or below) to attend the 2009 A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference (March 26-27, 2009). This includes one day of pre-conference workshops and one day of conference.
Click here on Program and Register or use the navigation bar above.
This year marks the sixth year for the conference which promises to be more unique, more educational, and even more social than ever before. The conference’s prior six seminar format has been expanded to eight, and the one pre-conference workshop has been expanded to three.
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Book Collecting Conference Only Weeks Away
March 15, 2009
Physically collecting “things” can have a positive or a negative spin to it (or a little of both). Gathering and keeping every plastic milk carton lid, or keeping neatly stacked piles of junk mail, over decades, will likely scare your family and friends.
However, collecting with joy and careful thought, books and print culture, especially if you are collecting in a subject that delights you, and you have a long-term strategy, can be quite satisfying, even economically beneficial (mostly in the long-term). Collectors shape their collections; “fine tune” the various parts and series (by trading up: buying better editions, sometimes first editions or author’s signed copies, etc.) Do you want to learn more about collecting books? Then come to the ADL Book Collecting Conference, coming up very soon on March 26-27, 2009 (click on the box at the top left of this screen for more details).
It is through these personal, loving efforts, that many of the world’s greatest libraries are built. After decades, or even whole life times, collectors or their families, eventually donate or sell their collections to libraries. As you can tell, libraries and collectors have a very strong connection; now add to this, devoted book trade people who help collectors, and you have a community and hobby that has a lasting significance. Come join the fun and the rich learning at the 6th annual A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference at BYU, is month Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27th.
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Thursday Evening’s Program & the Two Purposes for ADL Seminars
December 17, 2008
This just in….
The ADL Book Collecting Conference will host a special Thursday night program and reception (after the workshops and before Friday’s seminars). The evening’s special guest will be Rosie Kelly (Chicago, Illinois) nationally known book artist and calligrapher. The evening includes a 45 minute slide presentation with a Q & A session afterward, and a reception, all open to the public and especially for conference attendees.
Date and Time: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:00 pm
Location: 1060 HBLL (Library Auditorium and the De Lamar Jensen Lecture Room)
This lecture is cosponsored by the University of Utah Book Arts Program and the Utah Calligraphic Artist Guild. The A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference wishes to thank these two organizations for their generous underwriting of this presentation.
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Poster and Postcard
December 1, 2008
Download the poster and post-card for A. Dean Larsen Book Collectors Conference by clicking on the images below:
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What are you collecting?
November 15, 2008
What are you collecting? During this year’s ADL Conference opening remarks I will be asking participants to share what they are collecting and why. Do you want to answer this question now, then dive in?
– Brad Westwood, Chair, ADL Book Collecting Conference
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ADL Conference Wants Your Ideas for Future Conferences
November 1, 2008
Since the first ADL conference was launched in 2003, we have asked conference goers to tell us their ideas about future conferences. Specifically we have asked for ideas on:
- an annual printed keepsake,
- the lineup of collector’s seminars,
- the hands-on preconference workshops they’d like to see, and finally,
- topics for our luncheon program.
We have typically done this at the end of each conference. This year we are switching it up a bit, by inviting one and all to make their suggestions both before and after the conference. The conference committee will tally these ideas and try their best to respond to your wishes. So, start talking! -
Welcome!
October 1, 2008
Registration for the 2009 A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference (March 26-27, 2009) is now open!! This includes one day of pre-conference workshops and one day of conference.
Click here on Program and Register or use the navigation bar above.
This year marks the six year for the conference which promises to be more unique, more educational, and even more social than ever before. The conference’s prior six seminar format has been expanded to eight, and the one pre-conference workshop has been expanded to three.
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