RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage reviews books, reports, new periodicals, databases, websites, blogs, and other electronic resources, as well as exhibition, book, and auction catalogs pertaining directly and indirectly to the fields of rare book librarianship, manuscripts curatorship, archives management, and special collections administration. Publishers, librarians, and archivists are asked to send appropriate publications for review or notice to the Reviews Editor.
Benoit III, Edward and Alexandra Eveleigh, eds. Participatory Archives: Theory and Practice.(London, England: Facet Publishing, 2019). Reviewed by Lauren Goss.
Botticelli, Peter, Martha R. Mahard, and Michèle V. Cloonan. Libraries, Archives, and Museums Today: Insights from the Field. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Reviewed by Greta Reisel Browning.
Eliot, Simon and Jonathan Rose, eds. A Companion to the History of the Book, 2nd edition. (Hoboken, NJ: Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2020). Reviewed by Jessie Sherwood.
Meehan, Bernard. The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin, fully revised and updated edition. (New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2020). Reviewed by Diana La Femina.
Millar, Laura A.. A Matter of Facts: The Value of Evidence in an Information Age. (Chicago, IL: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2019). Reviewed by Laura J. French.
Paliewicz, Nicholas S. and Marouf Hasian Jr. The Securitization of Memorial Space: Rhetoric and Public Memory. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019). Reviewed by Lena Newman.
Peiss, Kathy. Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe. (Oxford University Press, 2019). Reviewed by Joshua C. Youngblood.
Trusting Records in the Cloud. (London, UK: Facet Publishing, 2019). Reviewed by Tamara E. Livingston.
Vinson, Michael. Bluffing Texas Style: The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020). Reviewed by Brian Shetler.