Program of the 2005 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Story

Tuesday, June 7 – Saturday, June 11, 2005,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hosted by The McLean Library
of The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

• About Our Speakers
• Program Schedule
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• Registration Form [PDF]

About Our Speakers

Celine Arseneault is a librarian and a botanist of the Montreal Botanical Garden. In this capacity, she has developed a very successful structure in working effectively with Montreal student interns as well as interns from France. Sibyl Cohen holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University and taught at Rutgers and La Salle Universities. She has been involved with Great Books for many years, as a participant, a leader and a leader-trainer who has led numerous workshops on facilitating book discussions. Sibyl represents the Great Books Council on the steering committee for “One Book, One Philadelphia” and has been leading PHS's very successful “Stories from the Garden” book group since its inception in 2001. Sheila Connor is horticultural research archivist at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, where she has worked on a range of projects, from exhibitions to authoring the book New England Natives. Lisa DeCesare earned a B.A. from Northeastern University and her M.L.I.S. from Simmons College. As head of public services, Harvard Botany Libraries, Lisa manages the archival collections, helps to manage the reading rooms, designs and updates web pages, and creates exhibits. Both Lisa DeCesare and Sheila Connor will share their tales of the rewards and challenges in working with interns. Susan Fraser is the director of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Library Service, Susan began her career at NYBG's library in 1984, where she held positions in administration, archives and special collections, and information services. She has been a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists since 1994, and the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries since 1986, where she presently sits on its board of directors. Eileen Mathias graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in Comparative Literature, then went on to the University of Illinois for a Master's degree in Library Science. She has served as reference librarian at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia for the last ten years, and as coordinator of the Academy's Digital Imaging Center for the last six. Eileen served as project manager of two large projects: an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant, in which early Academy publications were digitized and made accessible via the web; and a Getty Grant Project where art and artifacts of the Academy were digitized. A native of Washington State, Gordon McDaniel earned a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages at the University of Washington in 1980 and an M.L.S. from the University of Illinois in 1991. From 1992 to early 2001 he worked at the Hoover Institution Library at Stanford University. For family reasons he and his wife Kendra relocated to New York, and he is delighted that serendipity has brought him to The New York Botanical Garden. Born in Oslo, Norway, David Moltke-Hansen learned English upon moving to his mother's home – Charleston, South Carolina. A graduate of the College of Charleston, he completed his doctorate in American History at the University of South Carolina. He is a prolific author on historical and archival subjects. In 1999 David became president and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; he is president of the board of directors for the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collection Libraries (PACSCL) and serves on the board of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Brian R. Thompson has spent much of the past four years working closely with the architectural and design teams in the planning of the new home of the recently opened Elisabeth C. Miller Horticultural Library, in Seattle's Center for Urban Horticulture. Systems and technical services librarian since 1997, he also served as acting manager of the library during much of the final design and construction of this innovative example of "green" architecture. Keynote speaker William Woys Weaver is an organic gardener, the author of twelve books, and associate editor of the award-winning Scribner's Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. His Heirloom Vegetable Gardening received two IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Awards. Weaver maintains the Roughwood Seed Collection in Devon, Pennsylvania, which now encompasses over 4,000 heirloom food plants, with special emphasis on the Delaware Valley. He has supplied seeds to numerous well-known plant collections, including Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg, and the New York Botanical Garden. He has been awarded an opportunity given only to distinguished scholars to pursue a doctoral program of his own tailoring at University College, Dublin.

Program Schedule

2005 CBHL Annual Meeting, June 7 – 11, Philadelphia

Tuesday, June 7 All Tuesday activities held at Holiday Inn Historic District
11:00 –  4:00	Committee Meetings
11:00 –  8:00	Registration
4:00 –  6:00	Pre-conference workshop: How to Lead a Book Discussion - Sibyl Cohen (Limit 20)
6:00 –  8:00	Welcome Reception and Book Fair sponsored by CBHL book dealers and publishers
Dinner on Your Own
Wednesday, June 8 Morning at Holiday Inn Afternoon Study Tours, Libraries and Archives in and near Independence National Historical Park
8:30 –  9:00	Late registration
9:00 –  9:15	Welcome
9:15 – 10:00	Keynote Presentation: Philadelphia's Contribution to the World of Heirloom Vegetables - William Woys Weaver
10:00 – 10:45	Panel: Re-thinking Garden Libraries in the 21st Century - Brian Thompson (Other panelists TBA)
10:45 – 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:15	Panel on Archives: Keeping Archives - Susan Fraser; Surveying Archival Collections; a Consortial Approach - David Moltke-Hansen. Other panelist TBA
12:15 - 12:45	Business Meeting I
12:45 – 1:45	Lunch
2:00 –  5:00	Study Tours: walk to American Philosophical Society (5th & Chestnut); Chemical Heritage Foundation (315 Chestnut); Independence National Historical Park Archives (143 S. 3rd)
5:45 –  8:30	Trolley to Norris Square for community garden tours and Puerto Rican dinner by Grupo Motivos
8:30	Return to Holiday Inn Hotel
Thursday, June 9 Day at Longwood Gardens / Hagley Museum & Library / Chanticleer
8:30	Board bus to Longwood Gardens
9:30 – 10:00	Morning coffee at Longwood Gardens
10:00 – 10:45	Panel on Interns: The Library – Intern Partnership: Case Studies in Success - Celine Arseneault, Lisa DeCesare, Sheila Connor
11:00 – Noon	Business Meeting II
Noon – 2:00	Lunch and tour Longwood library and archives
2:00	Board bus to Hagley Museum.
2:30 -  4:00	Study Tour: Hagley archives and grounds
4:00	Board bus to Chanticleer
5:15 –  7:00	Reception and tour of Chanticleer
7:00	Board bus to hotel
7:30	Return to Holiday Inn Hotel
Dinner on Your Own
Friday, June 10 Morning at PHS Afternoon Study Tours of Academy of Natural Sciences & Bartram's Garden Evening banquet, Mummers Museum
8:30	Board trolleys to PHS
9:00 –  9:30	Continental breakfast at PHS. Library Tours
9:30 – 10:30	Business Meeting III
10:30 – 10:50	Break
10:50 – 11:15	The Virtual Information World: Some Challenges for Libraries - Gordon L. McDaniel
11:15 – 11:55	The Nuts and Bolts of Digital imaging - advice from one who has been there - Eileen C. Mathias
Noon –  1:00	Box lunch. Library tours
1:00 -  1:10	Walk to Academy of Natural Sciences.
1:15 –  3:00	Study Tour: ANS library, digital imaging center
3:00 -  3:10	Walk to PHS
3:15 -  3:45	Refreshments; library tour
3:45	Board trolley to Bartram's Garden
4:15 -  5:45	Study Tour: Bartram's Garden
5:45	Board trolleys to Mummers Museum
6:30 -  8:30	Closing Banquet at Mummers Museum
8:30	Board trolleys to return to hotel
8:45	Return to Holiday Inn Hotel
Saturday, June 11 Optional Day Trips. Choose one Optional trip 1: Cape May – all day. 7:30 am – 7 pm. Highlights: Hereford Inlet Lighthouse (1874) and gardens; lunch at The Mad Batter; walking tour of Historic Cape May; afternoon tea at the Emlen Physick Estate. (Limit 40) Optional trip 2: Brandywine Valley – all day. 9:00 am – 5:30 pm. Highlights: Brandywine River Museum; lunch at The Inn at Montchanin; Mt Cuba Center of Piedmont Flora. (Limit 40) Optional trip 3: Walking Tour, Gardens of Center City, Philadelphia – partial day. 10:30 am – 3:00 pm. Highlights: Historical and horticultural sights in Society Hill and Washington Square West neighborhoods; lunch at The City Tavern. Led by Jane Alling. (Limit 15)

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