Joan Oleck. Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management. New York: Primary Research Group, 2011. 59p. ISBN 978-1574401646. $75

Abstract

Representing the Primary Research Group (PRG), Joan Oleck, a freelance journalist and past contributor to Business Week and Newsday, shares the findings from a 2011 project that “profiles the management practices and other business decisions of nine high-profile special collections/rare book libraries.” The nine institutions profiled include the Fales Library and Special Collections of New York University, the Harry Ransom Research Center Library and Museum of the University of Texas, Austin, and the American Museum of Natural History Library, New York City, among others.

Although Oleck fails to describe how PRG chose each institution included in the report, the variety . . .