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Artists’ Books Collection Development: Considerations for New Selectors and Collections
The Epidemic in the Archives: A Layman’s Guide to Cellulose Acetate Lamination
Touch Tables for Special Collections Libraries: Curators Creating User Experiences
Agility in the Archives: Translating Agile Methods to Archival Project Management
No Mere Culinary Curiosities: Using Historical Cookbooks in the Library Classroom
Special Collections Exhibitions: How They Pay Dividends for Your Library
Rethinking Special Collections Moves as Opportunities, not Obstacles
Rare Book and Special Collections in Overview: Producing a National Directory
Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
Toward Inclusive Outreach: What Special Collections Can Learn from Disability Studies
Lessons in Ephemera: Teaching and Learning through Cultural Heritage Collections
References to Archival Materials in Scholarly History Monographs
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
Course Design, Images, and the Class-Curated Exhibit
Privacy in Public Archives: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Special Collections
Internships in Special Collections: Experiential Pedagogy, Intentional Design, and High-Impact Practice
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
An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections
Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections
In Search of Primary Source Literacy: Opportunities and Challenges
Special Collections on a Shoestring: A Survey of Non-ARL Libraries Servicing Rare Book Collections
The Positive Side of Eliciting Negative Emotions: Survey Results of Visitor Responses to a Library Exhibit
The Past, Present, and Future of Special Collections Library Literature
Michelle Levy and Tom Mole. <em>The Broadview Introduction to Book History</em>.
Spies in the Archive: Acquiring Revolutionary War Spy Letters Through Community Engagement
Early Book Collections and Modern Audiences: Harnessing the Identity/ies of Book Collections as Collective Resources
Editor’s Note (read it this time, please)
What's So Special about Special Collections Librarians?
<em>Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures</em>. Lorraine Daston, ed.
Treating the Digital Disease: The Role of Digital and Physical Primary Sources in Undergraduate Teaching
The Long-Term Significance of Printed Ephemera
Alison Cullingford. <em>The Special Collections Handbook</em>, Second Edition.
<em>A Companion to the History of the Book</em>, 2nd edition. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds.
In the Flesh? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Verification and Its Implications
Chronicling Resistance while Cloistered: Overcoming Erasure, Omission, and Alienation in the Archive
Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?
Trevor Owens. <em>The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation</em>.
David Thomas, Simon Fowler, and Valerie Johnson. <em>The Silence of the Archive</em>.
Measuring the Magic: Assessment in the Special Collections and Archives Classroom
Collaborative Social Media Campaigns and Special Collections: A Case Study on #ColorOurCollections
Red Wine and White Carpets: What We Didn’t Learn in Library School, or When the Dog and Pony Goes Bad
Peter Devereaux and Carla Diane Hayden. <em>The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures</em>.
Education, Training, and Recruitment of Special Collections Librarians: An Analysis of Job Advertisements
Eric Marshall White. <em>Editio Princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible</em>.
Editor's Note
<em>John Carter’s ABC for Book Collectors</em>, 9th edition. Nicholas Barker and Simran Thadani, eds. and Sidney E. Berger. <em>The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others</em>.
Debbie Lee and Kathryn Newfont.</strong> <em>The Land Speaks: New Voices at the Intersection of Oral and Environmental History</em>.
Revaluing Mimeographs as Historical Sources
