Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reflections on the meanings of objects / E. Haven Hawley
  • Affinities and alliances : thoughts on acquisitions, collection development, and donor relations / Jim Kuhn
  • Where does the collector/donor community see special collections today? / Jon A. Lindseth
  • Collecting communities : the role of special collections librarians and archivists in creating new life for community-base collections / Melissa A. Hubbard
  • The role of the auction house / Selby Kiffer
  • Forging into the future : facing digital realities and forecasting endeavors for special collections librarianship / Athena N. Jackson
  • Lawrence clark powell revisited : the functions of rare books today / Joel Silver
  • Special collections libraries and the uses of the past / Paul Ruxin
  • Everything old is new again : transformation in special collections / Alice Schreyer
  • Special collections and the booksellers of today / Tom Congalton
  • Acknowledging the past / Daniel DeSimone
  • Literary archives : how they have changed, and how they are changing / Ken Lopez
  • Objects of study : special collections in an age of digital scholarship / Stephen Enniss
  • Considering the present : special collections are the meal, not the dessert / Jay Satterfield
  • Teaching with special collections / Christoph Irmscher
  • From siberia to shangri-la / Sarah Thomas
  • The once and future special collections / Mark Dimunation.