Current Issue: Fall 2022
Research Article
Fall 2022
Collaborative Curation: Best Practices for Student Exhibits with Large Classes
Sigrid Anderson, Kristine Greive, Juli McLoone, Jo Angela Oehrli
As college and university special collections become more invested and successful in campus outreach, the demand for intensive instruction services, particularly student-curated exhibits, has increased. Supporting this type of experiential learning for large classes is particularly challenging. The authors of this paper suggest specific, practical steps for best practices in implementing student-curated exhibits with large classes by drawing on their experiences with four such exhibits at the University of Michigan, curated by classes ranging from twenty-five to one hundred students. ...
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Editor's Note • Fall 2022
Editor's Note
Richard Saunders
This issue’s editorial reflection is sparked by the two articles selected for this issue of RBM. As a professional librarian I’ve worked in Carnegie classification R1, R2, and M2 institutions. As a practicing historian I’ve done site-specific research in academic libraries between St. Paul and Austin, from Berkeley to New Haven, and a lot of places in between. ...
Research Article • Fall 2022
Special Collections on a Shoestring: A Survey of Non-ARL Libraries Servicing Rare Book Collections
Lynne M. Thomas
This article reports the first national survey that creates a baseline for documenting the experience of working with rare books in libraries without Association of Research Libraries (ARL) membership: a group of libraries that make up about half the field of librarians working with rare books. Scarcely studied despite decades of comparable studies of their ARL library colleagues, librarians working in non-ARL rare book collections have comparable demographics, professional training, and standards for their work as their peers in ARL libraries. ...
Book Review • Fall 2022
On the Road Again: Developing and Managing Traveling Exhibitions
Reviewed by Erika Hosselkus
On the Road Again: Developing and Managing Traveling Exhibitions, 2nd edition, provides a useful and practical introduction to planning, preparing, and successfully circulating a traveling exhibition. The title is directed especially to small and midsized museums, but its content may also benefit special collections, archives, and other cultural heritage practitioners interested in the topic. ...