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No Mere Culinary Curiosities: Using Historical Cookbooks in the Library Classroom
Artists’ Books Collection Development: Considerations for New Selectors and Collections
The Epidemic in the Archives: A Layman’s Guide to Cellulose Acetate Lamination
Rare Book and Special Collections in Overview: Producing a National Directory
Privacy in Public Archives: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Special Collections
Who Owns these Records? Authority, Ownership, and Custody of Iraq’s Baath Party Records
Touch Tables for Special Collections Libraries: Curators Creating User Experiences
The Special Collections Reading Room: A Study of Culture and Its Impact on the Researcher Experience
Agility in the Archives: Translating Agile Methods to Archival Project Management
Making Third Spaces Safe Spaces: How Trauma-Informed Care Informs Librarianship
Picking Up the Pieces: Library Processes and the Theft of Rare Materials
Special Collections Exhibitions: How They Pay Dividends for Your Library
Shelving Special Collections Materials by Size
Getting Inked? A Survey of Current Institutional Marking Practices in Rare Books and Special Collections
The Past, Present, and Future of Special Collections Library Literature
A Public Good: <i>Documenting the American South</i> and Slave Narratives
Toward Inclusive Outreach: What Special Collections Can Learn from Disability Studies
References to Archival Materials in Scholarly History Monographs
Internships in Special Collections: Experiential Pedagogy, Intentional Design, and High-Impact Practice
Lessons in Ephemera: Teaching and Learning through Cultural Heritage Collections
In the Flesh? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Verification and Its Implications
Advancements in Primary Source Pedagogy: Catalysts for Collaboration, Context, and Change
Special Collections on a Shoestring: A Survey of Non-ARL Libraries Servicing Rare Book Collections
From Mesoamerican Codices to Twentieth-Century Otomí Artists’ Books: Amate Papers in Rare Book Libraries and Special Collections Departments
Rethinking Special Collections Moves as Opportunities, not Obstacles
Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
Early Book Collections and Modern Audiences: Harnessing the Identity/ies of Book Collections as Collective Resources
An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections
Discursive Perpendicularity: Intersections of Black Print Culture Studies and Bibliography
“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
“But Do They Really Want Me?”: Reflecting on the Language of DEIA Adopted in Entry-Level Job Postings for Special Collections Librarians in 2023
In Search of Primary Source Literacy: Opportunities and Challenges
Manuscripts in the Flesh: Collections-Based Learning with Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Victoria
Chronicling Resistance while Cloistered: Overcoming Erasure, Omission, and Alienation in the Archive
Collaborative Curation: Best Practices for Student Exhibits with Large Classes
<em>Placing Papers</em> Update: The Black and Latino Experience in the Literary Archive Market
Treating the Digital Disease: The Role of Digital and Physical Primary Sources in Undergraduate Teaching
Course Design, Images, and the Class-Curated Exhibit
Crafting Connections: Bridging Collections and Communities with Knitting
Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections
The Positive Side of Eliciting Negative Emotions: Survey Results of Visitor Responses to a Library Exhibit
Bridging the Gap: Taking Practical Steps Toward Managing Born-Digital Collections in Manuscript Repositories
<em>A Companion to the History of the Book</em>, 2nd edition. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds.
A Constructivist Approach for Introducing Undergraduate Students to Special Collections and Archival Research
Trevor Owens. <em>The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation</em>.
Protocols for Native American Archival Materials
The Steward of Book History in the Digital Age: The Struggles and Rewards of Collecting e-Books for Special Collections Institutions
Archiving Against Professionalism
Describing Games for Special Collections Libraries
Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?
