Current Issue: Spring 2018
Research Article
Spring 2018
Touch Tables for Special Collections Libraries: Curators Creating User Experiences
Dysert, Rankin, and Wagner
This article describes the implementation of touch table technology for McGill University Library’s special collections. The touch table was used by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine and the Marvin Duchow Music Library to create ...
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Editor's Note • Spring 2018
Editor's Note
Richard Saunders
A journal is rather like a house plant: unless it is an artificially vibrant silk or plastic creation, a journal grows, changes, and needs care and attention. Each issue sits like a border plant along the path of time. A journal is watered and ...
Research Article • Spring 2018
Rare Book and Special Collections in Overview: Producing a National Directory
Karen Attar
Describing library collections by location is nothing new. In the mid-nineteenth century, Luther Farnham published A Glance at Private Libraries, about libraries in the Boston area of the United States. Reginald Arthur Rye produced his ...
Research Article • Spring 2018
References to Archival Materials in Scholarly History Monographs
Kris Bronstad
This study looks at citations of archival material in a sample of 136 recently published scholarly historical monographs produced by a selection of highly cited university presses in the United States, with the goal of discovering patterns in scholarly user reportage of archival use. ...
Research Article • Spring 2018
Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
Courtney Jacobs, Marcia McIntosh, Kevin M. O’Sullivan
Once highlighted as a hobbyist’s novelty, allied technologies such as 3D scanning, 3D modeling, and 3D printing are fueling vital new advances in a diversity of fields: in biomedical research, human tissue is being 3D printed to form human organs; the development of 3D printed titanium parts in aerospace engineering will ...