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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
Special Collections Exhibitions: How They Pay Dividends for Your Library
Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
Agility in the Archives: Translating Agile Methods to Archival Project Management
Rare Book and Special Collections in Overview: Producing a National Directory
Lessons in Ephemera: Teaching and Learning through Cultural Heritage Collections
A Constructivist Approach for Introducing Undergraduate Students to Special Collections and Archival Research
Course Design, Images, and the Class-Curated Exhibit
Bridging the Gap: Taking Practical Steps Toward Managing Born-Digital Collections in Manuscript Repositories
Internships in Special Collections: Experiential Pedagogy, Intentional Design, and High-Impact Practice
Editor’s Note (read it this time, please)
Who Owns these Records? Authority, Ownership, and Custody of Iraq’s Baath Party Records
Michelle Levy and Tom Mole. <em>The Broadview Introduction to Book History</em>.
References to Archival Materials in Scholarly History Monographs
<em>Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures</em>. Lorraine Daston, ed.
Toward Inclusive Outreach: What Special Collections Can Learn from Disability Studies
Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections
In Search of Primary Source Literacy: Opportunities and Challenges
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?
An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections
What's So Special about Special Collections Librarians?
Editor's Note
The Long-Term Significance of Printed Ephemera
Measuring the Magic: Assessment in the Special Collections and Archives Classroom
Collaborative Social Media Campaigns and Special Collections: A Case Study on #ColorOurCollections
David Thomas, Simon Fowler, and Valerie Johnson. <em>The Silence of the Archive</em>.
In the Flesh? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Verification and Its Implications
File Not Found: Rarity in an Age of Digital Plenty
Alison Cullingford. <em>The Special Collections Handbook</em>, Second Edition.
New Technologies and the Convergence of Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Trevor Owens. <em>The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation</em>.
Social Media as Entrée into Special Collections Reference Works
Peter Devereaux and Carla Diane Hayden. <em>The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures</em>.
Freda Matassa. <em>Valuing Your Collection</em>.
Editor's Note
Red Wine and White Carpets: What We Didn’t Learn in Library School, or When the Dog and Pony Goes Bad
Education, Training, and Recruitment of Special Collections Librarians: An Analysis of Job Advertisements
The Positive Side of Eliciting Negative Emotions: Survey Results of Visitor Responses to a Library Exhibit
Library and Archives Canada: A Case Study of a National Library, Archives, and Museum Merger
Eric Marshall White. <em>Editio Princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible</em>.
Debbie Lee and Kathryn Newfont.</strong> <em>The Land Speaks: New Voices at the Intersection of Oral and Environmental History</em>.
The Psychology of Letting Go
Early Book Collections and Modern Audiences: Harnessing the Identity/ies of Book Collections as Collective Resources
Balancing Boutique-Level Quality and Large-Scale Production: The Impact of “More Product, Less Process” on Digitization in Archives and Special Collections
Intersecting Missions, Converging Practice
Moving Toward “Mega-choice”: The Evolution of Access Technologies in Special Collections
