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Successfully managing rare book collections requires very specific knowledge and skills. This handbook provides that essential information in a single volume.

Rare Book Librarianship for the 21st Century is the first new rare books handbook of practice in 25 years. Authored by two special collections experts with extensive field experience, this book is also the first to discuss the role of digital technologies in managing a rare book collection.

After a fascinating discussion of the history and current state of rare book libraries, this handbook provides a comprehensive account of the core skills and knowledge needed to be a successful rare book librarian. Topics include best practices for handling, housing, and conserving rare materials; collection development techniques; and user education and outreach. This book will serve as a handbook for practitioners in academic settings, large public libraries, and special libraries, and as a textbook for students in MLIS courses on rare book librarianship and curatorship.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Foreword(p. vii)
• Introduction: "Our Time" and Staying Relevant(p. xiii)
• 1 A Brief History of Rare Book Libraries(p. 1)
• 2 Rare Books as Texts and Historical Artifacts(p. 13)
• 3 Getting to Know Your Collections(p. 41)
• 4 Caring For and Preserving Rare Books(p. 51)
• 5 Digitization(p. 79)
• 6 Security and Disaster Preparedness(p. 93)
• 7 Collection Development(p. 103)
• 8 Accessioning and Cataloging(p. 115)
• 9 Copyright(p. 121)
• 10 Outreach(p. 127)
• 11 Continuing Education(p. 159)
• 12 Selected Reference Resources(p. 165)
• Index(p. 173)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Steven K. Galbraith, PhD, is curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institue of Technology, and formerly the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Books at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. He has also worked as a rare book and manuscripts curator at The Ohio State University and a reference librarian at the University of Maine. He holds a masters degree in library science from the University at Buffalo and a doctorate from The Ohio State University. Galbraith is the author of The Undergraduates Companion to English Renaissance Writers and Their Web Sites and has served as general editor of the Undergraduates Companion series and the Author Research series for Libraries Unlimited. His published works also include articles and reports on early English printing, book conservation and digitization, and the poet Edmund Spenser.
Geoffrey D. Smith, PhD, is head of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. He holds a doctorate in American literature and textual studies from Indiana University. He is the author of American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography and is general editor for a series of textual editions of William S. Burroughs under The Ohio State University Press. Smith has written critical articles on Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and William Dean Howells in addition to numerous publications on rare book and textual studies topics.