This will be the 47th Annual Conference for The International Circle of Educational Institutes for Graphic Arts, Technology, and Management. Additionally, it will be combined with the 93rd Annual Conference for the Graphic Communication Education Association and joined by PrintED, making it the largest graphic communication education conference ever.

This is the first time that these organizations have come together for a joint conference to discuss and present on some of the most important and current scholarly and applied research developments in graphic arts, technology, education, and management.

There will be representation from 15 nations including Belgium. Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Nigeria, Scotland (UK), Sweden, Switzerland, United States, and Uzbekistan.

This event also kicks-off the 70th anniversary of the Graphic Communication program at Cal Poly. Members of industry will also be attending. A highlight of the event is the opening of the Raymond J. Prince Graphic Arts Collection (Monday, July 6). This will be the largest graphic arts library in the world for education and industry research including the following collections.

E. H. Wadewitz Library (Donated by Printing Industries of America housing approximately 20,000 volumes) including the following collections:

Albert Materazzi
Frank Preucil
Fred Billmeyer
Lee Augustine
Rare books

General collections focusing on all facets of graphic arts science, technology, and management:

Dennis Mason publications
Graphic Arts Monthly (Full collection)
Richard Fisch publications
Richard Popp publications
Technical Association of the Graphic Arts (Full collection)
The American Printer (Full collection)
Many others

Collection focusing on inkjet, toners, photoreceptors, cartridges, etc:

Art Diamond (Diamond Research Corporation) publications
Recharge Asia publications
Recharger Magazine (Full collection)