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Rare Book and Special Collections Librarianship Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University Professor Deirdre C. Stam

Syllabus, Fall 2010

"Rare book librarians are a happy breed of men and women. We share common experiences and common pleasures, but there is nothing common about us. There is excitement in our lives for we work daily with the fabric of what has made the world what it is it. We are an integral part of that world. We are frightfully competitive but almost never vicious or unkind to one another. . . . There are no saints among us that I know of, but we are blessed in many ways. . . . . We are concerned. We have a sense of human. We are aware that we have a special privilege to understand the motivations of a special mystique."

Frederick R. Goff. The Delights of a Rare Book Librarian. Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1975. 1-2.

Time and place: At Bobst Library NYU; 2nd floor, West Room, Avery Fisher Center (70 Washington Sq. So., NY NY 10012), Wednesdays, Sept. 15 through Dec. 22, 2010 (except Nov. 24). 6:30-8:20 p.m. Note that decisions about closings made for C.W. Post do not affect NYU-located classes. In general, if the subways are running, this class will meet even if weather is poor.

Contact information: Bobst Library NYU #707, 70 Washington Square South, New York NY 10012. Tel. 212-998-2681. FAX 212-995-4072. [email protected] (Email is preferable to telephone since I do not check my office phone every day.)

Office hours: Manhattan, 2-6 p.m. on class days and by appointment, in the Palmer suite in Bobst Library (7th floor). Appointments are available during weekdays, week nights, and weekends. Even for regular office hours, appointments (by email) are a good idea in order to reserve enough time for your concerns. Telephone conversations are, of course, always possible both during the week and on weekends. (Please provide your name and times of availability by email if you want me to call you.)

Purpose, scope and method The purpose of this course is to prepare students for leadership roles in rare book and special collections. Sessions address the major aspects of the curator's job. At the conclusion of this course students will be able to join the staff of a rare book and special collections unit, and take part in an informed way in decision-making about professional issues. Students should then be acquainted with the issues, vocabulary, major information sources, and significant documents of the field.

This course uses the case method to a large extent. Students will gain experience in applying information and finding solutions to typical problems in rare book and special collections. In order to give students experience in the essentially collaborative nature of rare book and special collections librarianship, class sessions will include group exercises. Students will also work on individual written projects, and will be required to visit rare book and special collections as well as antiquarian bookshops on their own time during the term.

This course is required for the concentration in Rare Books and Special Collections.

[Please note that this course does not address the history of the book. Book history courses include the annual History of the Book, and many others including, in recent years, Artists Books, The Joy of Ephemera, Great Collections of New York City, the Antiquarian Book Trade, Library Meets Museum [on exhibitions and related publications], and more. Courses taken at Rare Book School (based at the University of Virginia, with courses in various cities), and courses at the University of London's Rare Book School (including the gradable final project) may count as “history of the book” courses for purposes of the Palmer concentration. For details on that concentration see www.cwpost.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/cics/palmer/rare_books.html.]

Assignments and grading: Students will be assigned work sheets that test their ability to solve typical problems in the rare book/special collections context, with reference to pertinent sources and documents. Each assignment will require the student to deal with these aspects of professional practice: issues, vocabulary, major information sources, and significant documents of the field. Logic and technical aspects of writing will also be evaluated. For full credit, all worksheets must be submitted in a timely manner, and in professionally appropriate form. All worksheets have equal weight.

Weight: Five worksheets = 17 points each (85 points for all five)

Class participation = 15 points

Total = 100 points

Information sources: The readings listed here are the basis for class discussion and exercises. This list is by no means a comprehensive bibliography. Starred items (*) are highly recommended. Students should be prepared to seek additional sources.

Participation: Because much of the work for the class will take place during meeting times and because collaboration is the usual mode of work in libraries, attendance and participation are important. Group work on sample problems will be used extensively. Additionally students will be expected to complete assignments outside of class and to visit rare book and special collections on their own time. Students who miss more than

2 three sessions cannot expect to receive full credit for this course. Those who plan to miss any session should let the instructor know well ahead of time in order to schedule a make-up session. Some exercises done in class will be graded and will count toward the final grade.

Required text: There is no text book because none of recent vintage exists. Required readings will be available on reserve at NYU, and online though LIU‟s access to periodical databases, and through other means.

All students intending to work with rare book materials should acquire John Carter‟s ABC for book collectors (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books: 2004). 8th ed. Rev. or any recent edition. Although we will not discuss this book per se, students will be expected to be familiar with its contents and to be able to use the terms it defines in ways that are consistent with the practices of the rare book/special collections field. Highly recommended for the students‟ own library is Geoffrey Ashall Glaister's inexpensive, paperback reference work, Encyclopedia of the Book, 2nd ed., New Castle DE and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 1996.

About the Readings Students should peruse Carter (see above) regularly throughout the course. Among the books and other sources listed below, pay particular attention to the starred items. The materials listed below will be available online and/or, in a few instances, at Bobst library (reserves are on level A at Bobst). You may wish to obtain some of these books through interlibrary loan via your local libraries, or by consultation of reference copies at NYPL (Fifth Avenue and 42nd St. building) and other specialized libraries. It is assumed that students are able to use the LIU online databases which are available remotely and the NYU databases that are available onsite. Be sure to ask librarians for help if you cannot do this already.

Many of the readings listed here are available in full text through the online database Library Literature and Information Science. Access to Library Literature is available via the internet to Palmer School students through the LIU library web page. Some materials will be on reserve in the reserve sections of NYU's Bobst Library. Some online sources are available on site at NYU (and on site at other libraries), but are not available to Palmer students at home. Much information is available via the internet. Advice to the wise: do not wait until the last minute to complete assignments. The worksheets, though not lengthy, take time! It may that obstacles to access will delay the process of completing assignments. Some materials in the online NYU catalog may be housed off- site and it will take days to recall them for use in the library. Some reference materials in the NYU catalog may be available only in NYU‟s Fales Library which has restricted hours.

When you have a chance, browse recent, hard-copy issues of these journals: Libraries and Culture (Bobst Z671 .J67 23:1- 1988- .BobCatPlus Electronic Access [onsite only]), Library and Archival Security, Library Quarterly (Bobst Z671 .L8 1- 1931- ), Library Trends (Bobst Z671.L83 1- 1952- ), Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

3 [PBSA] (Bobst Z1008.B5p 7- 1913- ), RBM (formerly Rare Book and Manuscript Librarianship) (Bobst Z688.R3 R32 1- [2000]- ) and the RBMS Newsletter (Bobst Z688.R3 R3 Current year only). These should be available in various research collections throughout the NYC area; see the NYPL catalog and OCLC for locations.

Citation formats: Use current MLA (Modern Language Association) formats consistently for all assignments. Note that the new formats discourage extensive footnotes and generally call for citations within a text that refer to a list of sources at the end of the paper. Examples of the MLA format can be found online, most conveniently at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/. Regarding plagiarism, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/. If you have questions about plagiarism, ask the instructor for help before turning in questionable material. Examples of MLA formatting can be found at http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm. LIU‟s policies on plagiarism can be found at http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/exhibits/plagstudent.htm.

Style manual: If you have questions about grammar or want to insure that your style is clear, effective, and readable, see William Strunk, Jr.'s The Elements of Style, online through bartleby.com. This succinct work is available cheaply in used copies at many used book stores or online. Most people prefer the physical form to the online version.

Codes: E-reserves at LIU: Stam. Office: 5, then 3, then 1.

U. of Penn. Reading Room

4 Schedule and assignments

September 15: Definitions relating to rare books and special collections; information sources; enumerative bibliography; scholarly and professional societies; about collecting institutions

Overview

*American Library Directory. New Providence NJ: R.R. Bowker, 1992. [Updated frequently, useful for contact information and brief descriptions of collection emphasis. Bobst REF1 Desk Z1007 .A54 Latest edition only. Available also in many public libraries, often in ready-reference collections.]

*Ahearn, Allen, and Patricia Ahearn. Book collecting 2000: A comprehensive guide. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2000. [Available in many public libraries, often in ready-reference collections. See the introductory material. Note: NYU Bobst has the 1998 edition: NYU Bobst SpecColRef; Z1033.F53 A39 1997 Non- circulating.]

*Ash, Lee, and William G. Miller. Subject Collections. 7th ed. New Providence NJ: R.R. Bowker, c. 1993. [NYU Bobst Desk Z688.A2 S8 Non-Circulating. Available in many public libraries, often in ready-reference collections.]

Cave, Roderick. Rare Book Librarianship, 2nd rev. ed. London: C. Bingley, 1982. Selections. Bobst Reserve Z688.R3 C38 1982

* De Hamel, Christopher. "Tangible artifacts." RBM 1.1 (2000): 27-9. Available in full text from LIU

Garabedian, Michael. “„You‟ve Got to Be Carefully Taught.‟ American Special Collections Library Education and the Inculcation of Exclusivity.” RBM, vol. 7, no. 1 (2006), 55-63. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/7/1/55.full.pdf

Guide to Reference (formerly in print form, now online – see history of this title at this address: http://www.guidetoreference.org/DynamicContent.aspx?ctype=15). Check sections on bibliography, biography, and more. Probably worth using in paper form to get an overview of reference materials for rare books and the like.

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. “Guidelines: Competencies for Special Collections Professionals.” 2008. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/comp4specollect.cfm

Joyce, William L. "Special collections." Encyclopedia of Library History. Eds. Wayne A. Wiegand and Donald G. Davis, Jr. New York: Garland, 1994. 595-97. [NYU Bobst REF 1 Z721 .E54 1994 Non-circulating.]

5 "NUCMC," that is, National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections [Rhymes with luck-luck.] Available at http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc. Free from LC. As a result of the ongoing integration of the activities of OCLC and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) which began in July 2006, the migration of records from the RLG Union Catalog to OCLC‟s WorldCat is now complete. Currently, from the NUCMC website: "The NUCMC website now provides searching access, via the NUCMC/OCLC gateway, not only to the WorldCat records that were accessible prior to the merger, but also to the RLG Union Catalog records that were previously accessible only via the NUCMC/RLG gateway."

Panitch, Judith M. Special Collections in ARL Libraries: Results of the 1998 Survey Sponsored by the ARL Research Collections Committee. Washington DC: Asso. of Research Libraries, 2001. [NYU Bobst Z688.A2 P35 2001. Summary available on reserve at Bobst.]

*Price, Peggy Melissa. "Make mine medium rare: special collections librarians consume the 20th century." Mississippi Libraries 65. 2 (Summer 2001): 37-9. Available in full text from LIU

Stam, David. International Dictionary of Library Histories. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. [Includes information on collections of major libraries; also essays on types of specialized libraries with special collection implications.] NYU Bobst REF1 Z721 .I572 2001 Non-circulating.

*Traister, Daniel. "Rare Books and Special Collections." World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services. 3rd ed. Chicago, 1993. 698-703. [NYU Bobst REF1 Z1006 .W67 1993 Non-circulating. Also available in many public libraries, often in ready-reference collections. Also on reserve.]

* Schreyer, Alice D. “What‟s So Special about Special Collections Librarians?” RBM, vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 2006), 49-54. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/7/1/49.full.pdf

* VanWingen, Peter. "Your old books." [Originally created for the Library of Congress.] www.rbms.info/yob.shtml

Organizations Relating to Rare Books and Special Collections:

Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America www.abaa.org. See especially “Research resources” for bibliophilic societies and more.

Association of Research Libraries (ARL): Special Collections (“Special Collections in ARL Libraries.” 2009; also other reports and documents) www.arl.org/collect/spcoll/index.html.

6 http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries web site: www.rbms.info

American Printing History Association [note especially the New York City Chapter]: http://www.printinghistory.org/

The Bibliographic Society: http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/

Bibliographical Society of America web site: http://www.bibsocamer.org/

Ephemera Society of America: http://www.ephemerasociety.org/

Rare Book School: http://www.rarebookschool.org/

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing: http://www.sharpweb.org/

ILAB (International League of Booksellers) http://www.ilab.org/

IRLA (Independent Research Libraries Asso.) web site for contact data to its member libraries http://irla.lindahall.org/

Society of American Archivists www.archivists.org

Archivists Roundtable [note Metropolitan New York Chapter] [note Metropolitan New York http://www.nycarchivists.org/

Book collectors' clubs, partly social in purpose, are represented in the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (exs., Baltimore Bibliophiles, Caxton Club (Chicago), Grolier Club [NYC], Club of Odd Volumes [Boston], Tichner Society [Boston], etc.) See the individual websites of these elected membership societies. The Grolier Club has a library on book collecting and some programs open to the public. Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies: www.fabsbooks.org

September 22: Collection-building; ethics

Sources of collections:

Gifts Purchase: [The web (Bibliofind, BookFinder, Ebay, Alibris, ABE, Amazon), dealers, book fairs, auctions, individuals]

7 Entrepreneurship: gathering from writers, their relatives, their friends, interest groups, hobbyists, local residents, and alumni; generating material onsite through tape recordings of speakers and the like Auctions Transfer from general collections Self generation (poetry readings recorded, performances, artists in residence)

Beasley, Gerald. “Curatorial Crossover: Building Library, Archives, and Museum Collections.” RBM 8, no. 1 (2007), 20-28. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/8/1/20.full.pdf

Hyry, Tom, Diane Kaplan, and Christine Weidman, “„Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method in „t:‟ Assessing the Value of Faculty Papers and Defining a Collecting Policy.” American Archivist, vol. 65 (2002), 56-69. Available online through LIU.

Max, D. T. “Letter from Austin: Final Destination: Why Do the Archives of So Many Great Writers End Up in Texas?” New Yorker (June 11 & 18, 2007), 54- 71. Available online through LIU.

Robison, Andrew. "Curatorial Reflections on Print Rooms and Libraries." RBM 8:1 (Spring 2007): 35-44. [On collection development."] Available at http://rbm.acrl.org/

Sauer, Cynthia. “Doing the Best We Can? The Use of Collection Development Policies and Cooperative Collecting Activities at Manuscript Repositories.” American Archivist, vol. 64 (2001), 308-349. Available online through LIU.

* Smyth, Elaine B. “A Practical Approach to Writing a Collection Development Policy.” RBML 14, no. 1 (Fall 1999). http://rbm.acrl.org/content/rbml/14/1/27.full.pdf

* Taylor, Marvin. “I‟ll Be Your Mirror, Reflect What You Are: Postmodern Documentation and the Downtown New York Scene from 1975 to the Present.” RBM 3 (2002), 32-52. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/3/1/32.full.pdf

* Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science. LIS 6010 Blog entry on collection development policies: http://lis6010blog.blogspot.com/2009/08/collection-development-policy.html

Whiteman, Bruce. “Cooperative Collection Building: A Response to Gerald Beasley.” RBM 8, no. 1 (2007), 29-34. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/8/1/29.full.pdf

Oddities: collectors and collecting

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Basbanes, Nicholas. “1 x 700.” [700 copies of one title.] Fine Books and Collections (July 27, 2010). http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/2010/07/two-years-times- 700.phtml

Basbanes, Nicholas A. A Gentle Madness. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995. Readily available for loan in many public libraries.

McManis, Sam. “Auburn Collector has more than 700 Books – All the Same Title [Two years Before the Mast].” Sacramento Bee (July 26, 2010). http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/26/2913876/auburn-collector-has-more-than.html

Examples of Collection Development Policies:

* Dartmouth Rare Book CD Policy: http://library.dartmouth.edu/cdp/read.php?cdp_id=65

* Fales Library Special Collections CD Policy: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/policies/fales.html

* Fales Library Downtown CD Policy: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/policies/fales_dwntwn.html

* Grolier Club collection development policy: www.grolierclub.org (in the left- hand menu select The Library – Collections Overview – Library Collection Development Policy)

* Library of Congress collection development policy for manuscripts: http://www.loc.gov/acq/devpol/manuscri.pdf

Louisiana State University: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/collserv/colldev/policies/rarecollection.html

Antiquarian Book Trade:

* AddALL. http://used.addall.com/

* viaLibri. http://www.vialibri.net/

* American Book Prices Current. http://www.bookpricescurrent.com/ and Bobst Main Collection Z1000 .A51

9 * Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. http://www.abaa.org/

* Bookman‟s Price Index: http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=00 0&titleCode=BPI&edition and Bobst REF1 Z1000 .B74 (latest ed.)

* Grolier Club. Read one of the following papers from the “Books in Hard Times” conference, held Tuesday, September 22, 2009: William S. Reese, Tom Congalton, or Priscilla Juvelis. www.grolierclub.org (select “Public Events” from left-hand menu)

Holzenberg, Eric J. “Second-Hand and Antiquarian Books on the Internet.” RBM 2, no. 1 (Spring 2001). http://rbm.acrl.org/content/2/1/35.full.pdf

Rendell, Kenneth W. “The Future of the Manuscript and Rare Book Business.” RBM 2, no. 1 (Spring 2001). http://rbm.acrl.org/content/2/1/13.full.pdf

* Slive, Daniel J. Interview with Bernard M. Rosenthal. RBM 4, no. 1 (Spring 2003). http://rbm.acrl.org/content/4/1/45.full.pdf

Gifts and Donors:

* Society of American Archivists. “A Guide to Deeds of Gift.” http://www.archivists.org/publications/deed_of_gift.asp

* Society of American Archivists. “A Guide to Donating Your Personal or Family Papers to a Repository.” http://www.archivists.org/publications/donating-familyrecs.asp

Transfers from general collections:

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. “Guidelines on the Selection and Transfer of Materials from General Collections to Special Collections.” 2008. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/selctransfer.cfm

Deaccessioning:

* Oram, Richard W. “Current Professional Thinking on the Deaccessioning of Rare Books in Academic Libraries.” RBML 12: 9-18 (1, 1997) (LIU databases.)

10 New York State. “Brodsky Bill” http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/03182009-bill.pdf

* Pogrebin, Robin. “Bill Seeks To Regulate Museums‟ Art Sales.” New York Times (March 17, 2009). http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/arts/design/18rege.html?scp=3&sq=brodsky %20bill&st=cse

Pogrebin, Robin. “Institutions Try to Slow Bill to Curb Sales of Art.” New York Times (June 22, 2009). http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/arts/design/23deaccess.html?scp=1&sq=bro dsky%20bill&st=cse

Pogrebin, Robin. “Museums and Lawmakers Mull Sales of Art.” New York Times (January 14, 2010). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15deaccession.html?scp=1&sq= brodsky%20bill&st=cse

Stam, David H. Brown Univ. presentation from 1981 summarized by Ellen McCrady‟s Abbey Newsletter 6, no. 4 supp. [August 1982]) http://cool-palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey/an/an06/an06-4a/an06-a401.html

RBML [Prior journal of RBMS to RBM.] 12, no. 1 (1997), with papers by Richard W. Oram, Samuel A. Streit, and David M. Szewczyk; on deaccessioning. LIU databases.

Appraising:

*Payne, John R.. "The gentle art of giving: appraisals of charitable contributions [re Tax Reform Act of 1986]." ALA yearbook of library and information services, Vol. 13. Chicago: ALA, 1988.

*Archival appraisal: aabc.bc.ca/aabc/toolkit_guide_to_archives_appraisal.html

Ethics:

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. “Code of Ethics for Special Collections Librarians.” 2003. http://www.rbms.info/standards/code_of_ethics.shtml

Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. “Code of Ethics.” http://hq.abaa.org/books/antiquarian/abaapages/code-of-ethics

11 * Society of American Archivists. “Code of Ethics for Archivists.” 2005. http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/app_ethics.asp

Society of American Archivists. “Enforcing Ethics” (March 20, 2009) http://www.archivists.org/news/ethics09.asp

* American Association of Museums. “Code of Ethics for Museums.” 2000. http://www.aam-us.org/museumresources/ethics/coe.cfm

Sept. 29: Describing “rare” books, descriptive bibliography, decoding scholarly bibliographies and dealers' catalogues; understanding condition notes; determining value [WORKSHEET 1 DUE]

Descriptive bibliography: Types: Analytic, descriptive, historical, textual, etc. (in contrast to "enumerative") bibliography. See Terry Belanger‟s definitions at http://www.bibsocamer.org/bibdef.htm.

*Belanger, Terry. "Descriptive bibliography" in Book Collecting: a Modern Guide, ed. Jean Peters (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1977), 97-115. [On reserve.] NYU Bobst BRES Z987 .B68.

*Publications: (Descriptive/analytical/historical) Bibliographies (e.g., BAL [Bibliography of American Literature]; Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature; English Short-title Catalogs, known as ESTC [online at NYU]. Also consult bibliographies for individual writers/printers/designers/presses), and other rare book tools (thesauri, handbooks, guidelines, sale catalogues, etc.). See Bloomberg-Rissman (next item) for an explanation of some of these tools. Others are described in Guide to Reference Books, ed. Robert Balay (Chicago: American Library Asso., 1996), available on the librarians' reference shelves (usually behind the counter) of any library; see the subsection on the reference materials relating to rare books, etc.

*See online sources: English Short Title Catalogue available free from the British Library at http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/estc1.html. Also see Early English Books Online [EEBO], and RLIN, a database of the holdings of many libraries on the American continent and abroad (all available at Bobst and at other research libraries, but not through LIU online). Also the National Union Catalog, known as “Mansell” (available in physical form at Bobst, sixth floor, northeast corner – all 800 volumes; see particularly the ca. 700, green Mansell volumes. The contents of this work are partially represented on the combination of OCLC and RLIN, but those online sources do not provide the search feature that makes this tool invaluable to book historians, that is, for tracing the publication history of a work. Mansell is also available at NYPL and other, large research libraries.) Also see OCLC‟s Worldcat at http://www.worldcat.org/ for free access to the

12 combined cataloging of 10,000 libraries worldwide, some of which have special collections.

*Essential is the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) at http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc. Free from LC. Provides access to OCLC bibliographic database for archival and mss., and to RLIN's AMC (Archival and Mixed Collections) file.

*Also see the databases, many including images, from the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester MA. These are described at www.americanantiquarian.org/digital2.htm and available onsite at Bobst and at NYPL. They include: American Broadsides and Ephemera; Early American Imprints – Series I [Evans, 1639-1800]; Early American Imprints – Series II [Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-19]; Early American Newspapers [1690-1876], and more.

The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) is an electronic bibliographic database maintained by the British Library which seeks to catalogue all known editions of books printed before 1501. http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/istc/index.html

*Book History Online: International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries at http://www.kb.nl/bho/index.html.

*Essential for rare book scholarship is Studies in Bibliography of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and other titles at etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva.

See also

The European Library for four national libraries at libraries.theeuropeanlibrary.org;

direct search: Searchable Bibliographies, Major Library Catalogs, and Library Tools at http://www.freepint.com/gary/bibs.htm;

Rare Books on the Web: A List of Resources at www.geocities.com/albertmasters/rarebooksontheweb.html;

Repositories of Primary Sources at http://www.uidaho.edu/special- collections/Other.Repositories.html;

ALB 1876: American Libraries before 1876 at http://www.princeton.edu/~davpro/databases/index.html;

CERL Hand Press Database (European Libraries) at http://www.cerl.org/web/

13 WorldCat at http://worldcat.org/ for 10,000 items in one billion libraries.

Among highly subject-focused, but broadly useful, tools is the Medieval Feminist Index at http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html.

For many other “vetted” online sources and tools of a scholarly sort, see RBMS‟s “Directory of Web Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger” at http://lib.nmsu.edu/rarecat/.

Videotape: "The Anatomy of a Book: I Format in the Hand-Press Period." VHS 1991. Written by Terry Belanger; Directed by Peter Herdrich. Available from Rare Book School, Univ. of Va.

Cataloging and describing:

*Archival appraisal. Saur, 2004. See especially "An overview of appraisal." (Will be made available.)

*Encoded archival description (EAD); see especially "Development of the EAD DTD." www.loc.gov/ead/

*Core Standard for Rare Books (DCRB Core). http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/coredcrb.html

"Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Objects." www.vraweb.org/CCOweb

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books. 2nd ed. Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1991. Available for purchase at $21 from ALA or LC at http://www.loc.gov/cds/catman.html#dcorb Not necessary for class, but very important to know about to understand current catalogs. Currently under revision as part of the developing standard for Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR).

*Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972 (corrected ed. 1974; New York 1975). [1995 paperback version currently in print (Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies/New Castle, DE). Available for purchase from Oak Knoll Books.] [Parts available in class.] [Note: abstruse, but essential as a desk reference for rare book and special collections librarians.] NYU Bobst REF1 Z116.A2 G27 Non-circulating. On reserve in Bobst. This title will be mentioned repeatedly during this class session.

Available in full text from LIU: Overmier, Judith A. and Elaine M. Doak. "Provenance records in rare book and special collections." Rare Books and

14 Manuscripts Librarianship 11. 1 (1996): 91-99. Available in full text from LIU databases.

*The Archivist's Toolkit (Archives Association of British Columbia) aabc.bc.ca/aabc/toolkit.html See especially "Arrangement and description."

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, known as NUCMC, pronounced “Nuck-muck,” rhyming with "luck-luck." (U.S.) at http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/about.html.

Dunkin, Paul S. How to catalog a rare book. 2nd ed. rev. Chicago: American Library Asso., 1973. Will be made available. Now out of date on particulars, but useful for the philosophical statement underlying Dunkin‟s approach which is pragmatic and user-oriented.

See terms from Powell's for describing rare books, with illustrations. Especially see the terms relating to condition, on the same web page. www.powells.com/rarebooks/bookbasics.html#terms

Oct. 6: Bibliography continued; archival principles for control and processing

Cataloging:

Ascher, James P. “Progressing Toward Bibliography; or: Organic Growth in the Bibliographic Record.” RBM 10, no. 2 (Fall 2009), 95-110. Available online through LIU, wilsonweb

*Core Standard for Rare Books (DCRB Core). http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/coredcrb.html

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books). Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, 2007. (available through Cataloger’s Desktop)

*Encoded archival description (EAD); see especially "Development of the EAD DTD." www.loc.gov/ead/

* RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee web page: http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/

* Russell, Beth M. “Description and Access in Rare Books Cataloging: A Historical Survey.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 35, no.3/4 (2003), 491-523. Available online through LIU.

15 Waibel, Günter and Mary W. Elings. "Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums." First Monday 12, no. 3 (March 5, 2007). http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/162 8/1543.

Bibliographic Utilities:

Library of Congress. The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints: A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries. London: Mansell, 1968-1981. Bobst 6th Floor Reference National Union Catalog Z881.A1 U518.

* OCLC WorldCat. http://www.worldcat.org/

* English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC). http://estc.bl.uk/

* LibraryThing. www.librarything.org

Processing:

* Archivists‟ Toolkit. http://www.archiviststoolkit.org/

Craig, Barbara Lazenby. Archival Appraisal: Theory and Practice. München: K.G. Sauer, 2004. Selections will be made available.

Hensen, Steven L. Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS). Chicago: SAA, 2007. Will be made available.

* Fox, Michael J. “Tutorial: An over-the-shoulder view of an archivist at work,” in Introduction to Archival Organization and Description. J. Paul Getty Trust, 1998. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/introarchives/tutori al.html

Lundy, M. Winslow, and Deborah R. Hollis. "Creating access to invisible special collections: Using participatory management to reduce a backlog." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 30.6 (2004): 466-475.

* Society of American Archivists. “Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook.” 1994. http://www.archivists.org/catalog/stds99/

16 Society of American Archivists. EAD Roundtable. “EAD Help Pages.” http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ead/

Whittaker, Beth M. "Using circulation systems for special collections: Tracking useage, promoting the collection, and addressing the backlogs." College & Research Libraries 69:1 (January 200*): 28-35.

Controlled Vocabularies Used in Special Collections:

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. “Controlled Vocabularies for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging.” http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/controlled_vocabularie s/

* Getty Research Institute. “Art and Architecture Thesaurus.” http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/

Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. “Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I).” http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/

Richard Pearce-Moses. “A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology.” http://www.archivists.org/glossary/Introduction.asp

Roberts, Matt T. and Don Etherington. Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/don.html

British Library. “Glossary of Terms for Illuminated Manuscripts.” From Michelle P. Brown, Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms (J. Paul Getty Museum: Malibu and British Library: London, 1994) http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/glossary.asp

Franco, Edgar. “Dictionary of Terms and Expressions Commonly Used in the Antiquarian Book Trade.” ILAB, 1994. http://www.ilab.org/eng/glossary/dictionary/31- edgar_franco_dictionary_of_terms_and_expressions_commonly_used_in_the_ant iquarian_book_trade.html

Oct. 13: Digital libraries; creating online access to collections (issues, standards and best practices, tools, copyright) [WORKSHEET 2 DUE]

17 Digitization and Special Collections Libraries:

Bailey, Charles W. Bailey, Jr. “Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, Version 1.” Houston: Digital Scholarship, 5/17/2010. [English language, with links.] http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm

* Darnton, Robert. “The Library in the New Age.” New York Review of Books 55, no. 10 (June 12, 2008). http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514

Davison, S. “If We Build It, Will They Come? Strategies for Teaching and Research with Digital Special Collections.” RBM 10 (Spring 2009), 37-49. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/10/1/37.full.pdf

* Dooley, Jackie. “Ten Commandments for Special Collections Librarians in the Digital Age.” RBM 10 (Spring 2009), 51-59. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/10/1/51.full.pdf

Erway, Ricky. "Supply and Demand: Special Collections and Digitisation." Liber Quarterly, 18, no.3/4 (2008). http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000263/index.html.

* Erway, Ricky, and Jennifer Schaffner. Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get Into the Flow. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Programs and Research, 2007. http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2007/2007-02.pdf

Large Digital Libraries of Pre-1800 Printed Books in Western Languages, Archivalia [100+ titles]. http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6107864/

Levy, David M. “Contemplating Scholarship in the Digital Age.” RBM 6, no. 2 (Fall 2005). http://rbm.acrl.org/content/6/2/69.full.pdf

Prochaska, Alice. “Digital Special Collections: The Big Picture.” RBM 10 (Spring 2009), 13-24. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/10/1/13.full.pdf

Proffitt, Merrilee, and Jennifer Schaffner. The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship: Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Programs and Research, 2008. http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2008/2008-04.pdf

Enniss, Stephen “The Role of the Artifact in a Facsimile Age” RBM 1 no. 1 (Spring 2000) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/1- 1/backissuesvol.cfm

Nichols. Stephen G. "Born Medieval": MSS. in the Digital Scriptorium” Journal of Electronic Publishing 11, no. 1 (Winter 2008) http://journalofelectronicpublishing.org/

18 Martin, Shawn. EEBO, “Microfilm, and Umberto Eco: Historical Lessons and Future Decisions for Building Electronic Collections.” Microform and Imaging Review 36 No. 4 (Fall 2007): 159-164 http://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/66/

Special Collections and Web 2.0:

* “Archives 2.0” wiki. http://archives2point0.wetpaint.com/

“Blog Boot Camp: A Primer for Special Collections Staff," 49th Annual RBMS Preconference, Los Angeles, Calif., June 2008 http://rbmsblogbootcamp.wordpress.com/ and http://www.slideshare.net/kathleenburns/blog-boot-camp-slideshow

* Theimer, Kate and Lynne M. Thomas. “Web 2.0 Basics for Special Collections Librarians,” 50th Annual RBMS Preconference, Charlottesville, Va., June 2009. http://www.slideshare.net/ktheimer/rbms-web-20-workshop

* Special collections blogs from Houghton, Beinecke, and other rare book and special collections libraries

* LibraryThing. “Libraries of Early America.” http://www.librarything.com/groups/PLEA

* Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/

Oct. 20: Catch-up day (More information to follow.)

Oct. 27: Management functions of a rare book/special collections curator: identifying goals and objectives, setting priorities, budgeting, planning, implementing, supervising, evaluating, updating skills, supporting the needs of upper management; interpreting collections

Rare Book Librarian’s Day:

*Traitor, Dan. "The rare book librarian's day." Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship 1, 2 (1986) 93-106; reprinted in The Best of Library Literature 1988, Scarecrow Press, 1989. [On reserve at Bobst; also available via e-reserve from LIU.]

19 Dimunation, Mark. "Red wine and white carpets: What we didn't learn in library school, or when the dog and pony goes bad." RBM 7.1 (2006): 73-84. http://rbm.acrl.org

Staffing:

Slive, Daniel J. “Interview with Norman Fiering.” RBM 6, no. 2 (Fall 2005). http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/6-2/slive06.pdf

* Dimunation, Mark. “Red Wine and White Carpets: What We Didn‟t Learn in Library School, or When the Dog and Pony Goes Bad.” RBM 7, no. 1 (Spring 2006), 73-84 http://rbm.acrl.org/content/7/1/73.full.pdf

Howarth, Rachel. “Exit Interview: Ken Carpenter.” RBM 3, no. 1 (Spring 2002). http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/3- 1/exitinterview.pdf

* Rare Book and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. Careers in Rare Books and Manuscripts: Frequently Asked Questions (Draft, February 2010) http://new.rbms.info/?q=node/6 and Jackie Dooley response http://lists.ala.org/wws/arc/rbms/2010-03/msg00063.html

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. “Guidelines: Competencies for Special Collections Professionals.” 2008.http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/comp4specollect.cfm

Henri, Janine Jacqueline. "Management, public service, and access issues: Serving special collections in an architecture branch library." Journal of Library Administration 39:1 (2003) 57-76.

Rippley, Susan Stekel. “The Education and Hiring of Special Collections Librarians: Observations from a Recent Recruit.” RBM 6, no. 2 (Fall 2005). http://rbm.acrl.org/content/6/2/82.full.pdf

* Special Collections staff directories on web sites of various libraries

Diversity and Special Collections:

RBM 8, no. 2 (Fall 2007). http://rbm.acrl.org/content/8/2 (issue on diversity)

20 Grob, Julie. “RBMS, Special Collections, and the Challenge of Diversity: The Road to the Diversity Action Plan.” RBM 4, no. 2 (Fall 2003). http://rbm.acrl.org/content/4/2/74.full.pdf

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. RBMS Diversity Committee web page: http://www.rbms.info/committees/diversity/

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. “RBMS Diversity Action Plan.” 2004. http://www.rbms.info/committees/diversity/diversity_action_plan.shtml

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. “RBMS Diversity Recruitment Toolkit.” http://www.rbms.info/committees/diversity/RBMS_DiversityToolkit072009FINA L.pdf

Society of American Archivists. Task Force on Diversity. “Final report to SAA Council” (February 1999). http://www.archivists.org/governance/taskforces/diversity_final.asp

Nov. 3: Management functions, continued: preservation, conservation, contracts, negotiating agreements for ownership and access, policies for copyright and fair use [WORKSHEET 3 DUE]

Preservation and Conservation:

* Adams, Randall G. “Librarians as Enemies of Books.” Library Quarterly 7 (1937), 317-331. http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/enemy.html

Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. New York: Random House, 2001. Bobst Reserve Collection Z695.655 .B35 2001

* Columbia University Libraries. Preservation and Digital Conversion Division. Disaster Response Manual for Care of Library Materials. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/img/assets/4776/disaster-2008-edition.pdf

* Cornell University. Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance. Training materials. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/menu.html

* Hain, Jennifer E. “A Brief Look at Recent Developments in the Preservation and Conservation of Special Collections.” Library Trends, vol. 52 (2003), 112- 17.

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* New York University. Bobst Library. Preservation Department Disaster Plan Workbook. http://library.nyu.edu/preservation/disaster/planningpreparedness.html

* Northeast Document Conservation Center. The Online Disaster-Planning Tool for Cultural and Civic Institutions. www.dplan.org

Philobiblon (Peter Verheyen's website for organizations, conservation and preservation information, and much more) www.philobiblon.com

* Reed-Scott, Jutta. “Preserving Research Collections: A Collaboration between Librarians and Scholars.” Association of Research Libraries, Modern Language Association, and American Historical Association on behalf of the Task Force on The Preservation of the Artifact, 1999. http://www.arl.org/preserv/presresources/Research_Collections.shtml

Sheehan, Jennifer K. “Making the Most of What We Have: A Framework for Preservation Management in Rare Book Collections.” RBM 10 (Fall 2009), p. 111-121. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/by/year

* Starmer, Mary Ellen, Sara McGough Hyder, and Aimée Leverette. “Rare Condition: Preservation Assessment for Rare Book Collections.” RBM 6, no. 2 (Fall 2005) http://rbm.acrl.org/content/6/2/91.full.pdf or LIU databases.

Wilkie, Everett. "Weighing Materials in Rare Book and Manuscript Libraries as a Security Measure against Theft and Vandalism," RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 7, no. 2 (Fall 2006) p. 146-164. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/by/year or LIUdatabases.

ILAB [International League of Antiquarian Booksellers], “Stolen Book” website: www.stolen-book.org

German firefighter training film from 1965, about the flammability of nitrate movie reels (see the sections on the inutility of water and sand – a kind of horror film) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7892683211336574432&ei=sTOjSd6 MJpuW2gL6ovCNDg&q=nitrofilm&hl=de# . Also see the history of movie vault fires and destruction at http://fan.tcm.com/_Vault-and-Nitrate-Fires-A- History/blog/346284/66470.html.

ACRL/RBMS, Security Guidelines (including marking in Appendix I): http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/security_theft.cfm . British Library's Vulnerable Items Project (on marking maps) (http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/issues/2008-2/issue_content.html)

22  Starmer, Mary Ellen, Sara McGough Hyder, and Aimée Leverette “Rare Condition: Preservation Assessment for Rare Book Collections” RBM 6 no. 2 (Fall 2005) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/6-2/rbmvol6no2.cfm

Access:

"ALA-SAA joint statement on access to original research materials" (1994). www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/standardsguidelinestopic.htm

"Finding liberty through rare books," American Libraries 28:10 (Nov. 1997) 23. LIU databases

Copyright:

*Copyright and Fair Use. http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States. http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/

Hirtle, Peter B., Emily Hudson, and Andrew T. Kenyon. Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library, 2009. http://cornell.worldcat.org/search?q=+ti%3A+au%3A+kw%3A0935995102&qt=advance d . Free download at: <http://papers.ssrn.com/s ol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1495365> and <http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14142>. Also available in paper.

*Copyright Chart - Peter Hirtle http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

Library of Congress Section 108 (Fair Use) Spinner http://www.librarycopyright.net/108spinner/

ALA Copyright Slider http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/ Duke University Law - Copyright Primer

* Columbia University Libraries/Information Services. Copyright Advisory Office website: http://copyright.columbia.edu/

* Cornell University. “Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, 1 January 2010.” http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

23 * “Section 108 of the US Copyright Code: Reproductions by Libraries or Archives for their Users, for Replacement, or for Preservation.” http://www.librarycopyright.net/108spinner/

* American Library Association. “Is it Protected by Copyright?” http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

Besser, Howard. “Intellectual Property: The Attack on Public Space in Cyberspace.” http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~howard/Papers/pw-public-spaces.html

Contracts (legal title)

Brower, Lisa. "An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on." Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship 6: 2 (1991): 100-7.

Nov. 10: Outreach: public relations, donor relations, instruction

Fundraising and Donor Relations:

* Browar, Lisa and Samuel Streit. “Mutually Assured Survival: Library Fund- Raising Strategies in a Changing Economy.” Library Trends (Nov. 2003). Available online through LIU.

Browar, Lisa. “Paving the Road to Hell? Cultural Institutions and the „New‟ Philanthropy.” RBM 5, no. 1 (Spring 2004). http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/5-1/browar.pdf

American Association of Museums. Guidelines for Museums on Developing and Managing Individual Donor Support (Nov. 2002) http://www.aam-us.org/museumresources/ethics/indiv_support.cfm

Grant Programs:

* Council on Library and Information Resources, Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives: http://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/index.html and list of funded projects for 2008 and 2009.

* Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation: http://www.delmas.org/

24 * Institute of Museum and Library Services: http://www.imls.gov/ and sample applications at http://www.imls.gov/applicants/sample.shtm

* Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: http://www.mellon.org/

* National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html and sample narratives.

* National Historical Publications and Records Commission: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/

Teaching with Special Collections:

* Allen, Susan M. “Rare Books and the College Library: Current Practices in Marrying Undergraduates to Special Collections.” RBML 13, no. 2 (Spring 1999), 110-119. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/rbml/13/2/110.full.pdf

Davison, Stephen. “If We Build It, Will They Come? Strategies for Teaching and Research with Digital Special Collections.” RBM 10 (Spring 2009), p. 37-50. http://rbm.acrl.org

* Smith, Steven Escar. “From „Treasure Room‟ to „School Room:‟ Special Collections and Education.” RBM 7 (2006), 31-39. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/7/1/31.full.pdf

* Stam, Deirdre C. “Bridging the Gap: Education and Special Collections,” RBM 7, no. 1 (Spring 2006), 16-30. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/7/1/16.full.pdf

“Page Turners; Institutions Are Giving Students Greater Access to Rare Books and Manuscripts, Opening a New Chapter in Higher Education.” Continental…Magazine (May 2009). http://magazine.continental.com/200905- iom

Nov. 17: Exhibitions and publications

Exhibitions:

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. “Guidelines for Borrowing and Lending Special Collections Materials for Exhibition” (January 2005). http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/borrowguide.cfm

25 * Brannock, J. “Creating an Exhibit in Special Collections and Using it to Promote Collections and Educate Users.” Mississippi Libraries 73, no. 2 (Summer 2009), p. 32-34. Available online through LIU.

* Cole, J.Y., et. al. “Treasures on Display: More Than a Century of Library Exhibitions.” Library of Congress Information Bulletin 67 no. 10 (October 2008) p. 167-173, 177. Available online through LIU.

Reed, Marcia. “Blurring the Boundaries: Collaborative Library and Museum Exhibitions in Los Angeles.” RBM 8, no. 1 (Spring 2007). http://rbm.acrl.org/content/8/1/45.full.pdf

* Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web. http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/index.htm

Allen, Greer. “The Design and Printing of Library Exhibition Catalogues.” Rare Books & Manuscript Librarianship 5, no. 2 (1990). p. 77-84. LIU databases.

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee web page: http://www.rbms.info/committees/exhibition_awards/index.shtml

Nov. 24: NO CLASS (Thanksgiving holiday)

Dec. 1: Services: reference, research, providing equipment to users, providing classroom space [WORKSHEET 4 DUE]

Public Service:

* “ACRL/SAA Joint Statement on Access to Research Materials in Archives and Special Collections Libraries.” July 2009. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/jointstatement.cfm

* Association of Research Libraries. “Public Services in Special Collections.” Spec Kit 296, November 2006. Executive summary at: http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec296web.pdf

* Sax, Joseph L. “Not so Public: Access to Collections.” RBM 1, no.2 (Fall 2000), 101-114. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/1/2/101.full.pdf

26 * Traister, Daniel. “Is There a Future for Special Collections? And Should There Be One?: A Polemical Essay.” RBM 1 (2000), 54-76. http://rbm.acrl.org/content/1/1/54.full.pdf

* Traister, Daniel. “Public Services and Outreach in Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections.” Library Trends 52, no. 1 (Summer 2003): p. 87-108. Available online through LIU.

“Mr. Bean goes to the Library.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGjnuV1iIWc

* Special Collections public services links on the library websites of:

University of Chicago: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/

Huntington Library: http://huntington.org/

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/ and http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/

UCLA: http://www.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/researchlibrary/index.cfm

New York University, Fales Library: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/

Beinecke Library, Yale: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/

Cornell University: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/services/services_overview.html

Inter-Library Loan:

* Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. “Guidelines for the Interlibrary Loan of Rare and Unique Materials.” (June 2004) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/rareguidelines.cfm

Dec. 8: Curating ephemera: unique requirements of ephemeral formats; curating multimedia

* Ephemera Society of America web site: http://www.ephemerasociety.org/

27 Gardner, Julia and David Pavelich. “Teaching with Ephemera.” RBM 9 (Spring 2008), p. 86-92.

Rickards, Maurice. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian. Ed. and completed by Michael Twyman. New York: Routledge, 2000. Bobst REF1 NC1280 .R52 2000

Twyman, Michael. “The Long-Term Significance of Printed Ephemera.” RBM 9 (2008), 19-57. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/9- 1/twyman08.pdf. Long article, but highly recommended.

To identify processes, see these videos on production of these forms:

 Relief http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0skLwaFpn0  Intaglio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKn4PORGBI  Lithography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc  Woodblock printing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dliF74ojOho

Dec. 15: Curating manuscript collections; archival principals

Processing Decisions for Manuscripts & Archives, SPEC Kit 314, Published by ARL, Nov. 2009 www.arl.org/rtl/speccoll/

Dec. 22: Future needs and trends; professional development and career building [WORKSHEET 5 DUE]

Trends in Rare Book and Special Collections Librarianship:

Association of Research Libraries. “Special Collections in ARL Libraries.” 2009. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/scwg-report.pdf

Association of Research Libraries. “A Special Issue on Distinctive Collections.” Research Library Issues 267 (December 2009). http://arl.tizrapublisher.com/pdfdownload/ps047/view

Association of Research Libraries. “An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age, October 2009: Proceedings of the ARL-CNI Fall Forum, October 14–15, 2009, Washington DC.”

28 http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/fallforumproceedings/forum09proceedings.sht ml

Cloonan, Michelle and Sidney Berger, eds. Library Trends 52, no. 1 (Summer 2003). Entire issue on special collections. http://cwplib.proxy.liu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?dire ct=true&db=lxh&bquery=(JN+%22Library+Trends%22+AND+DT+20030601)& loginpage=Login.asp&type=1&site=ehost-live

Exlibris-L List Archives, Nov. 2006-Feb. 2010. https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi- bin/wa-iub.exe?A0=exlibris-l

Grolier Club. Papers by Breon Mitchell and Katherine Reagan from the “Books in Hard Times” conference, held Tuesday, September 22, 2009. www.grolierclub.org (select “Public Events” from left-hand menu).

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. List and web sites of RBMS Preconferences since 1996. http://www.rbms.info/conferences/index.shtml

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