Including revisions approved by the RBMS Executive Committee at the ALA Annual Meeting, June 2002.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Organizational Structure / Mission
   1. Executive Committee
      1. Composition
      2. Planning
      3. Budget
      4. Information exchange meetings
      5. Officer Responsibilities
         1. Chair
         2. Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
         3. Past Chair
         4. Secretary
         5. Members-At-Large (1st, 2nd, 3rd Year)
   2. Standing Committees
      1. General Information
      2. Bibliographic Standards
      3. Budget and Development
      4. Conference Development
      5. Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group
      6. Diversity
      7. Exhibition Awards
      8. Instruction and Outreach Committee
      9. Membership and Professional Development
      10. Publications and Communications
      11. Scholarships
      12. Security
      13. Seminars
      14. Workshops
   3. Recurring Ad Hoc Committees
      1. Responsibilities of Committee Chairs and Members
      2. Conference Program Planning
      3. Nominating
      4. RBMS Conference Local Arrangements
      5. RBMS Conference Program Planning
   4. Task Force Committees
      1. Responsibilities of Committee Chairs and Members
      2. Digitization of Special Collections Task Force (discharged June 2009)
      3. RBMS Task Force Committee on Core Competencies in Special Collections Librarianship (discharged June 2008)
      4. ALA/SAA Joint Statement on Access Review Task Force (discharged June 2009)
      5. Transfer Guidelines for General Collections Materials Task Force (discharged June 2008)
      6. Guidelines for Borrowing and Lending Special Collections Material Task Force
   5. Discussion Groups
      1. Curators and Conservators
      2. Collection Development
      3. Technical Services Discussion Group
      4. Manuscripts and Other Formats
      5. Public Services Discussion Group
   6. Liaisons
   7. Archivist/Records Manager
   8. Publications
      1. RBMS Newsletter
      2. RBM
   9. Electronic Communications
      1. RBMS Website
      2. RBMS Electronic Discussion List
3. Orientation to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
4. Governance Procedures
5. RBMS Standards and Guidelines Progression
6. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Cosponsorships
7. Agreement Endowing the Leab Awards
8. Past Ad Hoc Committees
9. Appendix: Records Management and Preservation Guidelines for RBMS Committees and Groups