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No Mere Culinary Curiosities: Using Historical Cookbooks in the Library Classroom
The Epidemic in the Archives: A Layman’s Guide to Cellulose Acetate Lamination
Artists’ Books Collection Development: Considerations for New Selectors and Collections
Privacy in Public Archives: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Special Collections
Rare Book and Special Collections in Overview: Producing a National Directory
Making Third Spaces Safe Spaces: How Trauma-Informed Care Informs Librarianship
Internships in Special Collections: Experiential Pedagogy, Intentional Design, and High-Impact Practice
Picking Up the Pieces: Library Processes and the Theft of Rare Materials
Who Owns these Records? Authority, Ownership, and Custody of Iraq’s Baath Party Records
The Special Collections Reading Room: A Study of Culture and Its Impact on the Researcher Experience
Shelving Special Collections Materials by Size
Touch Tables for Special Collections Libraries: Curators Creating User Experiences
Agility in the Archives: Translating Agile Methods to Archival Project Management
Getting Inked? A Survey of Current Institutional Marking Practices in Rare Books and Special Collections
From Mesoamerican Codices to Twentieth-Century Otomí Artists’ Books: Amate Papers in Rare Book Libraries and Special Collections Departments
In the Flesh? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Verification and Its Implications
Special Collections Exhibitions: How They Pay Dividends for Your Library
References to Archival Materials in Scholarly History Monographs
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
Discursive Perpendicularity: Intersections of Black Print Culture Studies and Bibliography
Lessons in Ephemera: Teaching and Learning through Cultural Heritage Collections
Special Collections on a Shoestring: A Survey of Non-ARL Libraries Servicing Rare Book Collections
Collaborative Curation: Best Practices for Student Exhibits with Large Classes
An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections
Advancements in Primary Source Pedagogy: Catalysts for Collaboration, Context, and Change
Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
<em>Placing Papers</em> Update: The Black and Latino Experience in the Literary Archive Market
Early Book Collections and Modern Audiences: Harnessing the Identity/ies of Book Collections as Collective Resources
Rethinking Special Collections Moves as Opportunities, not Obstacles
“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
Manuscripts in the Flesh: Collections-Based Learning with Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Victoria
In Search of Primary Source Literacy: Opportunities and Challenges
Treating the Digital Disease: The Role of Digital and Physical Primary Sources in Undergraduate Teaching
Crafting Connections: Bridging Collections and Communities with Knitting
Chronicling Resistance while Cloistered: Overcoming Erasure, Omission, and Alienation in the Archive
Course Design, Images, and the Class-Curated Exhibit
Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections
Describing Games for Special Collections Libraries
Artists’ Books and Critical Literacy Pedagogy: Kara Walker’s <em>Freedom: a Fable</em>
The Positive Side of Eliciting Negative Emotions: Survey Results of Visitor Responses to a Library Exhibit
<em>A Companion to the History of the Book</em>, 2nd edition. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds.
Protocols for Native American Archival Materials
Archiving Against Professionalism
Bridging the Gap: Taking Practical Steps Toward Managing Born-Digital Collections in Manuscript Repositories
Bernard Meehan. <em>The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin</em>, fully revised and updated edition.
“If This Book Should Chance to Roam”: The Importance of Children’s Marginalia in Rare Books Collections
Artist Interviews as a Tool in the Preservation of Artists’ Books
