Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management
- ISBN-10
- 1574400959
- ISBN-13
- 9781574400953
- Category
- Libraries
- Pages
- 88
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Primary Research Group Inc
- Author
- Caroline Rinaldy
Description
This special report examines the management practices and business decisions of special collections libraries with a focus on rare books, manuscripts, maps, and other historical documents. The report profiles the John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections at Boston College, the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University-Provo, the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, the San Antonio Public Library, the Watkinson Library at Trinity College, the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California-Berkeley. Interviews were conducted in November and December of 2007. Additional information through an online form was provided by San Jose State University Kent State University Map Library AGS Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and California State University-Chico.
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