Editor's Note

Abstract

This issue marks a milestone for RBM: it is an expanded issue offering twice as many articles as usual. As guest editor Eric Holzenberg explains in his introduction to the volume, these articles were all originally given as papers at the 2005 Rare Books and Manuscript Section preconference in St. Louis, “Bridging the Gap: Education and Special Collections,” for which he served as Program Planning Chair. Having put an extraordinary program together, Eric was faced with some very difficult choices in selecting considerably fewer papers to be published in RBM. This process was made considerably easier by John Hoover, director . . .