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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
Rethinking Special Collections Moves as Opportunities, not Obstacles
Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
Special Collections Exhibitions: How They Pay Dividends for Your Library
Rare Book and Special Collections in Overview: Producing a National Directory
Lessons in Ephemera: Teaching and Learning through Cultural Heritage Collections
Agility in the Archives: Translating Agile Methods to Archival Project Management
A Constructivist Approach for Introducing Undergraduate Students to Special Collections and Archival Research
Bridging the Gap: Taking Practical Steps Toward Managing Born-Digital Collections in Manuscript Repositories
Editor’s Note (read it this time, please)
Course Design, Images, and the Class-Curated Exhibit
Michelle Levy and Tom Mole. <em>The Broadview Introduction to Book History</em>.
<em>Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures</em>. Lorraine Daston, ed.
References to Archival Materials in Scholarly History Monographs
Internships in Special Collections: Experiential Pedagogy, Intentional Design, and High-Impact Practice
Editor's Note
Who Owns these Records? Authority, Ownership, and Custody of Iraq’s Baath Party Records
Spies in the Archive: Acquiring Revolutionary War Spy Letters Through Community Engagement
Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?
What's So Special about Special Collections Librarians?
Measuring the Magic: Assessment in the Special Collections and Archives Classroom
In Search of Primary Source Literacy: Opportunities and Challenges
Collaborative Social Media Campaigns and Special Collections: A Case Study on #ColorOurCollections
File Not Found: Rarity in an Age of Digital Plenty
The Long-Term Significance of Printed Ephemera
Social Media as Entrée into Special Collections Reference Works
In the Flesh? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Verification and Its Implications
David Thomas, Simon Fowler, and Valerie Johnson. <em>The Silence of the Archive</em>.
Freda Matassa. <em>Valuing Your Collection</em>.
Editor's Note
New Technologies and the Convergence of Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Peter Devereaux and Carla Diane Hayden. <em>The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures</em>.
Red Wine and White Carpets: What We Didn’t Learn in Library School, or When the Dog and Pony Goes Bad
Alison Cullingford. <em>The Special Collections Handbook</em>, Second Edition.
Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections
Library and Archives Canada: A Case Study of a National Library, Archives, and Museum Merger
Moving Toward “Mega-choice”: The Evolution of Access Technologies in Special Collections
Balancing Boutique-Level Quality and Large-Scale Production: The Impact of “More Product, Less Process” on Digitization in Archives and Special Collections
The Psychology of Letting Go
Trevor Owens. <em>The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation</em>.
Intersecting Missions, Converging Practice
Articulating Value: Building a Culture of Assessment in Special Collections
Eric Marshall White. <em>Editio Princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible</em>.
Ten Commandments for Special Collections Librarians in the Digital Age
An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections
Distortion of Content and Endangered Archives: A Case Study of a Donation to the American University of Beirut, Lebanon
<em>Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives.</em> Aaron D. Purcell. <em>Developing Digital Scholarship.</em> Alison MacKenzie and Lindsey Martin, eds.
Education, Training, and Recruitment of Special Collections Librarians: An Analysis of Job Advertisements
