Current Issue: Fall 2017
Research Article
Fall 2017
“Lessons in Ephemera: Teaching and Learning through Cultural Heritage Collections
McMullan and Cobley
This article synthesizes an intern’s experience assessing the University of Canterbury’s (UC) theatre and concert music program ephemera collection for its teaching and research ...
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Editor's Note • Fall 2017
Editor's Note
Richard Saunders
Stepping in as a successor to someone else’s effort—particularly when that someone has compiled a record of effectiveness and efficiency—is more than a little intimidating, more particularly when the setting is a professional publication. ...
Research Article • Fall 2017
Artists’ Books Collection Development: Considerations for New Selectors and Collections
D. Courtenay McLeland
In the 2010 survey Taking Our Pulse: The OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections and Archives, artists’ books were the specific genre most often identified as a new collecting area within library special collections departments. ...
Research Article • Fall 2017
The Epidemic in the Archives: A Layman’s Guide to Cellulose Acetate Lamination
Eddie Woodward
Most RBM readers are archivists and rare-book librarians. As a preservation professional, what would you do if you knew that there were certain documents and manuscripts in your collection that were deteriorating at a faster rate than others? ...
Research Article • Fall 2017
Rethinking Special Collections Moves as Opportunities, not Obstacles
Colleen Hoelscher and Sarah Burke Cahalan
In the summer of 2017, the Marian Library—a special library devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary within the larger University of Dayton Libraries system—completed a move of its rare book and archival collections into a new space within the main library building. ...