Editor’s Note

Abstract

The articles in this issue of RBM represent the variety of experiences special collections professionals face as we confront, as library administrators are fond of saying, “the new normal” of reduced resources and increased expectations.

Anne Bahde explores how to provide access to “the stuff,” actual historical materials rather than digital surrogates, in the context of large lecture style classes held outside the traditional confines of our reading rooms. In a suite of articles resulting from a session at the 2010 RBMS preconference, Merrilee Proffitt, Mark Allen Greene, and Michael Foxe describe letting go of some of our traditional work, . . .