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Home / Past Issues / Vol 26, No 1 (2025)

Vol 26, No 1 (2025)

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Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note: Work Is Work
Diane Dias De Fazio
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Articles

“Some Days, My Work Is Unbearable”: The Impact of Chronic Illness and Disability on Recruitment and Retention for Workers in American Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries
Melanie Griffin
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“But Do They Really Want Me?”: Reflecting on the Language of DEIA Adopted in Entry-Level Job Postings for Special Collections Librarians in 2023
Ruth Xing, Yuzhou Bai
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Moving Forward: Membership and the Future of RBMS
Rebecca Bramlett, Eric Friede, Sophia Dahab, Michael Seminara
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Getting Inked? A Survey of Current Institutional Marking Practices in Rare Books and Special Collections
Gemma Steele, Hayley Webster
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Anthology: Papers from “The Power of New Voices”

Sustainably Critical Cataloging: Maximizing the Impact of Term Funding with the Black Bibliography Project
Mara Caelin
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Making Third Spaces Safe Spaces: How Trauma-Informed Care Informs Librarianship
Lyric Grimes
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Interviews

Interview: Deborah Parker on Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene
Jen Hoyer
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RBMS Updates

RBMS Chair’s Note
Melanie Griffin
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RBMS 2025 Conference Update
Jeremy Brett, Beth Kilmarx
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