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The Epidemic in the Archives: A Layman’s Guide to Cellulose Acetate Lamination
Touch Tables for Special Collections Libraries: Curators Creating User Experiences
Artists’ Books Collection Development: Considerations for New Selectors and Collections
Agility in the Archives: Translating Agile Methods to Archival Project Management
Special Collections Exhibitions: How They Pay Dividends for Your Library
Rethinking Special Collections Moves as Opportunities, not Obstacles
No Mere Culinary Curiosities: Using Historical Cookbooks in the Library Classroom
Rare Book and Special Collections in Overview: Producing a National Directory
Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
Lessons in Ephemera: Teaching and Learning through Cultural Heritage Collections
Toward Inclusive Outreach: What Special Collections Can Learn from Disability Studies
Who Owns these Records? Authority, Ownership, and Custody of Iraq’s Baath Party Records
References to Archival Materials in Scholarly History Monographs
Picking Up the Pieces: Library Processes and the Theft of Rare Materials
Course Design, Images, and the Class-Curated Exhibit
A Constructivist Approach for Introducing Undergraduate Students to Special Collections and Archival Research
Internships in Special Collections: Experiential Pedagogy, Intentional Design, and High-Impact Practice
Bridging the Gap: Taking Practical Steps Toward Managing Born-Digital Collections in Manuscript Repositories
An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections
In Search of Primary Source Literacy: Opportunities and Challenges
Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections
The Positive Side of Eliciting Negative Emotions: Survey Results of Visitor Responses to a Library Exhibit
Michelle Levy and Tom Mole. <em>The Broadview Introduction to Book History</em>.
Privacy in Public Archives: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Special Collections
Spies in the Archive: Acquiring Revolutionary War Spy Letters Through Community Engagement
Editor’s Note (read it this time, please)
Early Book Collections and Modern Audiences: Harnessing the Identity/ies of Book Collections as Collective Resources
The Past, Present, and Future of Special Collections Library Literature
What's So Special about Special Collections Librarians?
<em>Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures</em>. Lorraine Daston, ed.
The Long-Term Significance of Printed Ephemera
Alison Cullingford. <em>The Special Collections Handbook</em>, Second Edition.
Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?
In the Flesh? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Verification and Its Implications
Trevor Owens. <em>The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation</em>.
<em>A Companion to the History of the Book</em>, 2nd edition. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds.
David Thomas, Simon Fowler, and Valerie Johnson. <em>The Silence of the Archive</em>.
Measuring the Magic: Assessment in the Special Collections and Archives Classroom
Treating the Digital Disease: The Role of Digital and Physical Primary Sources in Undergraduate Teaching
Collaborative Social Media Campaigns and Special Collections: A Case Study on #ColorOurCollections
Peter Devereaux and Carla Diane Hayden. <em>The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures</em>.
Editor's Note
Education, Training, and Recruitment of Special Collections Librarians: An Analysis of Job Advertisements
Debbie Lee and Kathryn Newfont.</strong> <em>The Land Speaks: New Voices at the Intersection of Oral and Environmental History</em>.
Chronicling Resistance while Cloistered: Overcoming Erasure, Omission, and Alienation in the Archive
Red Wine and White Carpets: What We Didn’t Learn in Library School, or When the Dog and Pony Goes Bad
Eric Marshall White. <em>Editio Princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible</em>.
<em>John Carter’s ABC for Book Collectors</em>, 9th edition. Nicholas Barker and Simran Thadani, eds. and Sidney E. Berger. <em>The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others</em>.
Revaluing Mimeographs as Historical Sources
Freda Matassa. <em>Valuing Your Collection</em>.
