Vol 13, No 2 (2012)

Fall

Table of Contents

Contributors

Contributors
American Library Association
PDF
81-83

Guest Editor’s Note

Guest Editor’s Note
Christian Dupont
PDF
85-86

Articles

Articulating Value: Building a Culture of Assessment in Special Collections
Lisa R. Carter
PDF
89-99
The Practice, Power, and Promise of Archival Collections Assessment
Martha O’Hara Conway, Merrilee Proffitt
PDF
100-112
Processing Workflow Analysis for Special Collections: The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine as Case Study
Emily R. Novak Gustainis
PDF
113-128
Data-Driven Management and Interoperable Metrics for Special Collections and Archives User Services
Joyce Chapman, Elizabeth Yakel
PDF
129-151
Measuring the Magic: Assessment in the Special Collections and Archives Classroom
Anne Bahde, Heather Smedberg
PDF
152-174
Methods to Tame the Madness: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Assessment Techniques for Online Finding Aid and Website Design
Rachael Hu
PDF
175-190
Afterword: Special Collections and Assessing the Value of Academic Libraries
Sarah M. Pritchard
PDF
191-194

Book Reviews

Joan Oleck. Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management. New York: Primary Research Group, 2011. 59p. ISBN 978-1574401646. $75
Lori Birrell
PDF
195-198
William Henry Fox Talbot. The Pencil of Nature. Chicago: KWS Publishers, 2011. 164p. ISBN 978-0981773667. $149.95
Sarah Passonneau
PDF
198-201
Francis X. Blouin, Jr. and William G. Rosenburg. Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 272p. ISBN 978-0199740543. $74
Morgan Davis
PDF
201-203
Rosemarie McGerr. A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes: The Yale Law School New Statutes of England. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xv, 212p. ISBN 9780253356413. $34.95
Jennifer K. Sheehan
PDF
203-204
Alison Cullingford. The Special Collections Handbook. London: Facet Publishing, 2011 (distributed in the United States by Neal-Schuman Publishers). xiv, 210p. ISBN 9781856047579. $125.00
Laurel Davis
PDF
204-205
Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment; Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton. Ed. Charles Walton. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xvii, 244p. ISBN 978-0-271-05012-6. $49.95
Greg Matthews
PDF
206-207