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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
Touch Tables for Special Collections Libraries: Curators Creating User Experiences
Who Owns these Records? Authority, Ownership, and Custody of Iraq’s Baath Party Records
Agility in the Archives: Translating Agile Methods to Archival Project Management
The Special Collections Reading Room: A Study of Culture and Its Impact on the Researcher Experience
Picking Up the Pieces: Library Processes and the Theft of Rare Materials
Special Collections Exhibitions: How They Pay Dividends for Your Library
Toward Inclusive Outreach: What Special Collections Can Learn from Disability Studies
A Public Good: <i>Documenting the American South</i> and Slave Narratives
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
Shelving Special Collections Materials by Size
References to Archival Materials in Scholarly History Monographs
Making Third Spaces Safe Spaces: How Trauma-Informed Care Informs Librarianship
Internships in Special Collections: Experiential Pedagogy, Intentional Design, and High-Impact Practice
Lessons in Ephemera: Teaching and Learning through Cultural Heritage Collections
Rethinking Special Collections Moves as Opportunities, not Obstacles
Advancements in Primary Source Pedagogy: Catalysts for Collaboration, Context, and Change
Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
In the Flesh? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Verification and Its Implications
Special Collections on a Shoestring: A Survey of Non-ARL Libraries Servicing Rare Book Collections
“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
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
“But Do They Really Want Me?”: Reflecting on the Language of DEIA Adopted in Entry-Level Job Postings for Special Collections Librarians in 2023
Discursive Perpendicularity: Intersections of Black Print Culture Studies and Bibliography
From Mesoamerican Codices to Twentieth-Century Otomí Artists’ Books: Amate Papers in Rare Book Libraries and Special Collections Departments
In Search of Primary Source Literacy: Opportunities and Challenges
Chronicling Resistance while Cloistered: Overcoming Erasure, Omission, and Alienation in the Archive
Course Design, Images, and the Class-Curated Exhibit
Collaborative Curation: Best Practices for Student Exhibits with Large Classes
Treating the Digital Disease: The Role of Digital and Physical Primary Sources in Undergraduate Teaching
Manuscripts in the Flesh: Collections-Based Learning with Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Victoria
Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections
Bridging the Gap: Taking Practical Steps Toward Managing Born-Digital Collections in Manuscript Repositories
The Positive Side of Eliciting Negative Emotions: Survey Results of Visitor Responses to a Library Exhibit
Crafting Connections: Bridging Collections and Communities with Knitting
A Constructivist Approach for Introducing Undergraduate Students to Special Collections and Archival Research
<em>A Companion to the History of the Book</em>, 2nd edition. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds.
<em>Placing Papers</em> Update: The Black and Latino Experience in the Literary Archive Market
Trevor Owens. <em>The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation</em>.
The Steward of Book History in the Digital Age: The Struggles and Rewards of Collecting e-Books for Special Collections Institutions
Michelle Levy and Tom Mole. <em>The Broadview Introduction to Book History</em>.
Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?
Bernard Meehan. <em>The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin</em>, fully revised and updated edition.
Dennis Meissner. <em>Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts.</em> Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2019. Paperback, 224 p. $69.00 (ISBN: 9781945246074 / 9780838946480 / 9781945246098 / 945246073 / 0838946488 / 194524609X).
