Moving Forward: Membership and the Future of RBMS

Rebecca Bramlett; Eric Friede; Sophia Dahab; Michael Seminara

doi:10.5860/rbm.26.1.50

RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage is the Association of College and Research Libraries' journal covering issues pertaining to special collections libraries and cultural heritage institutions.

About The Authors

Rebecca Bramlett

Rebecca Bramlett is the Instruction and Outreach Archivist in the Department of Distinctive Collections at MIT Libraries. She holds a MA from the University of Chicago, a MLIS from Florida State University, and is a 2023 M.C. Lang Fellow in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources from Rare Book School.

Eric Friede

Eric Friede is the Head of Acquisitions at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. He has previously held roles at Yale Library’s Technical Services Department and Yale Divinity Library. He is a member of the RBMS Membership and Professional Development Committee. His interests include acquisitions of rare materials and provenance research.

Sophia Dahab

Sophia Dahab (she/her) is Curator of the Rare Book Department at the Free Library of Philadelphia. She has over ten years’ experience in the rare books and special collections field, having previously worked at the Library Company of Philadelphia, University of the Arts, and the Grolier Club of New York. Her research interests are the material culture of the book and bookbinding history, with particular focus on nineteenth-century American publishers’ bindings. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two cats, runs marathons for fun, and thinks chili should always be served with a cinnamon roll on the side.

Michael Seminara

Michael Seminara is the Curator of the Historical Collection of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins.

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