Resumen de Retrofitting a name: the new RBMS conference, leaving the "pre" in the past

Richenda brim, Athena N. Jackson

• At the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, the RBMS Conference Development Committee and the RBMS Executive Committee initiated a discussion on changing the name of the �RBMS Preconference� to �RBMS Conference.� Later, at the 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago, the name change was made official via the Consent Agenda item at the RBMS Executive Committee meeting. With this new name, the Section acknowledges the expanded scale and reach of our annual event, which recently has grown to more than 400 attendees and spans three and a half days. By contrast, other ALA Preconferences typically comprise a half . . .