A
ABC of Reading (Pound), 134
academic program, special collections responding to, 170–171
access to special collections
cataloging backlogs and unprocessed collections preventing, 175–177
historical overview of, 157–165
hybrid access to print and online holdings, 17
Accetta, Giula, 80
“Acknowledging the Past, Forging the Future” (colloquium on special collections), xiii, xv, 21, 46, 53, 64, 94
“Acquainting the Public with Rare Books” (conference session), 168
acquisitions
donor relations, 21–23
gifts-in-kind, 11–20
print collections, building and maintaining distinctive, 15–20
active learning (exuberant chaos), 124–128, 132–154
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 51, 109
affinities and alliances, new tools for building, 14–15
age of book collectors, 90
Aguinaldo, Emilio, 145–146
AIDS Education Posters, 22
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 33
All in the Family (television show), 142
Allen, Peter, 73
American Library Association, 69
American Writers Museum, 49
Amistad Research Center (Tulane), 172
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 74, 158, 172
Aquinas, Thomas, 65
archive of the future, 109–110
Arizona State University, 172
ARL (Association of Research Libraries), 37, 158, 175
artifacts
books as, 5–8
experiencing authentic and compelling, 163
manuscripts and, 136
meanings of, 3–10
reconstruction of memories and, 6–8
scrapbooks as, 41–42
valuing, 4
Atwater, Edward C., 22
auction house, role of, 45–51
audience, identifying and creating a new, 92–93
Austen, Jane, 111
autographs, 102–103
B
backlogs in cataloging and unprocessed collections preventing access to special collections, 175–177
Baer, Harold, 73
Baldwin, James, 146–147
The Bancroft Library, 184
Barlow, William, 33
Basbanes, Nicholas, 33
Bay Psalm Book, 50
Beauties of Swift: or, the Favorite Offspring of Wit & Genius (Swift), 48–49
Belanger, Terry, 31
Belton, Don, 144
Berenson, Bernard, 148
Berenson, Mary, 144
bibliography, descriptive, 69–72
The Bibliomania: Or, Book-Madness; Containing Some Account of the History, Symptoms, and Cure of This Fatal Disease (Dibdin), 33
Black Metropolis Research Consortium, 173
Bloch, Bernard, 110
BlogSpot software, 145
Blumenthal, Joseph, 81
BOA Editions, 12
Boni & Liveright, 47
“Book Collecting: Personal Rewards and Public Benefits” (Barlow), 33
book collectors
age of, 90
demographics, 90
as donors, 31–34
establishing their own institution or foundation, 46
librarians, booksellers, and private collectors working together, 92–93
overview, 31–34
book fairs, 91
Book Traces, 16
Books and Prints, Past and Present (conference), 45
“Books and Society in History” (RBMS Preconference 1980), 168
books (physical)
as artifacts, 5–8
information carried by, 70–72
monetary value of books and manuscripts, role of, 50–51
as primary source material, 69–70
booksellers
librarians, booksellers, and private collectors working together, 92–93
nonbook materials and, 86–88
and technology, 85–86
The Book Collector, 33
born-digital content, 106–113, 176, 181–182
Bowden, Mary, 147
Bowers, Fredson, 70
brochures and marketing materials, 96–97
Brown University, 159, 170, 175, 184
Buchtel, John, 182
Buffalo Public Library, 51
“Building on Strength: Developing an ARL Agenda for Special Collections” (symposium), 175
building special collections, 48, 67–69, 77–78, 90, 183. See also collection development
C
Calatrava, Santiago, 69
Campbell, Joseph, 97
careers in special collection librarianship, 82–83
“The Care of Rare Books” (conference session), 168
Carini, Peter, 118
case study
community-based collections, 39–43
digital scholarship trends, trajectory of career as case study for present and future, 55–59
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), xiii, 39–43, 49, 89, 91, 94
cataloging backlogs and unprocessed collections preventing access to special collections, 175–177
Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program (CLIR), 158–159, 172
Cather, Willa, 88
Center for the Book (Library of Congress), 67
Chardin, Teilhard de, 100
Charles Scribner, 47
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada) (García Márquez), 104
classroom
selection of materials for, 125
students, relinquishing control of classroom experience to, 120–124
Clay, Edward William, 146
Clemens, Samuel, 102
Cleveland Play House (CPH) archives, 39–43
CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources), 74, 158, 172
collaboration between and within institutions, 172–173
“Collecting Scientific Literature” (conference session), 168
collection development. See also building special collections
collaborative collection development, open, formal, publicly documented, 17–20
policies for, 13–14
print collections, building and maintaining distinctive, 15–20
starting the process of collection description, importance of, 177–178
Colorado Book Seminar, 91
community-based collections
case study, 39–43
defined, 37
importance of, 38–39
integration into research institutions, 43–44
overview, 37–38
role of, 38–39
Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Whitman), 102–103
computer-generated manuscripts, 103–107
“Computers and Rare Books: An Introductory Session” (conference session), 168
ContentDM, 126
copyright issues, 22, 73–74, 111–112, 126
Cornell Human Sexuality Collection, 19
Cornell University Library, 31
correspondence
letters, 97–98
Costelloe, Frank, 148
Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold) (García Márquez), 104
crowdsourcing, 177
curatorial boundaries, crossing, 119–123
current core values of work in special collections, 183
cut-and-paste manuscripts, 95
D
Dacier, Anne, 79
Dartmouth College, 48, 117–129
Darwin, Charles, 46–47
database, creation of searchable full-text, 73–74
Davies, Robertson, 33
Dawn (Dreiser), 135
De Simone, Daniel, xiii, 89, 188
demographics of book collectors, 90
Dennis, John, 78
Department of Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania), 184
descriptive bibliography, 69–72
Deshon, Florence, 135
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 33
digital archives, 98, 108, 110–113
digital scholarship, 53–59, 75, 101–113
digital storage media, 105–107
digitization of materials, 54–59, 74–75, 125–127, 169–170, 177
Dimunation, Mark, xiii, 67, 164, 167, 188
donors
book collectors as, 31–34
potential donors, identifying and encouraging, 31–32
relations with, 21–23
Donovan, Mary, 131
Dooley, Jackie, 171
Doren, Carl Van, 45
Dreiser, Theodore, 135
duality of structure, 9
The Dunciad (Pope), 71
Dunn, Marilyn, 160
Dupont, Christian, 15
Dwinelle, John Whipple, 11
Dylan, Bob, 48
E
EAST (Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust), 18
Eastman, George, 18
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), 70
EEBO (Early English Books Online), 70
Einstein, Albert, 167
El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Love in the Time of Cholera) (García Márquez), 104, 105
Ellison, Robert Spurrier, 135
email correspondence, 107–109, 111, 112
Emancipation Proclamation, 48
Emory University, 172
Empson, William, 137
Encyclopedia Arctica, 125–126
“Enemies of Books: Revisited” (RBMS Preconference 1983), 168
Eng-L 460 Modern Literary Archives (syllabus), 150–154
ethical and practical principles of working with modern literary archives, 132–154
evolution of a writer’s work, 95–96
“The Evolution of the Concept of Special Collections in American Research Libraries” (Joyce), 38
exhibition tour of Bay Psalm Book, 50
exuberant chaos (active learning), 124–128, 132–154
F
Ferber, Becky, 142
“Five Theses on the Future of Special Collections” (Overholt), 38
Fleeman, Richard, 70
Flickr, 159
Flickr Commons, 162
Flinn, Gallagher, 80
Florida Polytechnic University (FPU), 69
Folger Shakespeare Library, 92, 110
Frankfurter, Marion, 132
Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, 49
“From ‘Treasure Room’ to ‘School Room’: Special Collections and Education” (Smith), 38
full-text database, creation of searchable, 73–74
future of special collections (overview), 179–184
Fyner, Konrad, 11
GAGV (Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley), 19
García Márquez, Gabriel, 103–105
Gaskell, Philip, 70
A Gentle Madness (Basbanes), 33
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, 17, 18–19
“Getting There From Here: Setting the Agenda for Special Collections in the 21st Century” (RBMS Preconference 1996), 169
Ghosh, Anjona, 142
Gibbons, Susan, 20
Giddens, Anthony, 9
gifts-in-kind, 11–15
Giroux, Robert, 45
Goodwin, Jonathan, 47
Gordon Hall and Grace Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Propaganda (Brown University), 159
Gottschlich, Michelle, 144, 147–149
Gould, Stephen J., xv
Greek Word Study Tool of the Perseus Digital Library, 82
GreenGlass service, 16–17
Guffey, Don Carlos, 47
Gutenberg Bible, 49
H
Hagan, Malcolm E., 49
Hanff, Peter, 184
Harold A. Kanthor Collection of Gilbert and Sullivan, 21
Harry Ransom Center (The University of Texas), 32, 102, 105, 108
Harvard Business School, 32
HathiTrust, 16–17, 70, 73, 173
Hemingway, Ernest, 47
hidden collections, 158–159, 172–173, 175–177
Hidden Collections, Scholarly Barriers: Creating Access to Unprocessed Special Collections Materials in North America’s Research Libraries (Jones), 176
highlight collecting, 46–49
historical overview of access to special collections, 157–165
Homer, 76–77
Homer in Print; A Catalogue of the Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana at the University of Chicago Library, 77–78, 93
Housman, A. E., 33
human universe, 99–100
Hunting for Hope (Sanders), 142
hybrid access to print and online holdings, 17
I
ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), 91
IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Studies), 83
Imprints and Impressions: Milestones in Human Progress (exhibition catalog), 93
in-kind donations. See gifts-in-kind
incunable books, 65
Indiana University Bloomington, 132–133
information carried by physical books, 70–72
intangibles, preservation of, 95–100
integration into research institutions, community-based collections, 43–44
Ireland, Samuel, 101
Ireland, William, 101
Ireland forgeries, 101
“Issues, Strategies and Opportunities” (RBMS Preconference 1990), 169
J
Jackson, Gardner, 132
Jackson, Robert H., xiii, 67, 94, 187
John Hay Library (Brown University), 184
Jones, Barbara M., 176
Jones, Megan, 132
Joyce, William L., 38
K
Kanthor, Harold, 21
Kelvin Smith Library (Case Western Reserve University), xiii
Kennedy, Robert, 48
Keogh, Andrew, 66
Kesey, Ken, 97
Kroch Library (Cornell University), 163
L
Lamperly, Paul, 33
Lang, Michael, 76–80, 81, 93, 171
Lattimore, Richmond, 7
Lawrence, T. E., 81
Lehigh University, 172
Lewis and Clark expedition official report, 46–47
librarians
booksellers, librarians, and private collectors working together, 92–93
careers in special collection librarianship, 82–83
staffing issues, 182–183
training for special collections librarians, 181–182
Library of Congress, 67, 94, 177, 179–180, 183, 184
library-wide initiatives, participating in, 173–174
Light, Michelle, 126
“Like A Rolling Stone” (Dylan), 48
Lilly Library (Indiana University Bloomington), 31, 132–154
Lincoln, Abraham, 48
Litchfield Historical Society, 172
literary archives, practical and ethical principles of working with modern, 132–154
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (Johnson), 79
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 133
Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) (García Márquez), 104, 105
Luce, Katherine, 171
M
Magna Carta, 50
“Mainstream or Margin? How Others View Special Collections” (RBMS Preconference 1993), 169
manuscript collectors establishing their own institution or foundation, 46
manuscripts
computer-generated, 103–107
cut-and-paste, 95
monetary value of books and manuscripts, role of, 50–51
paintings as competition with, 49
as physical objects, 136–137
types of, 149
Mark Twain Project Online, 109
marketing materials and brochures, 96–97
Marshall, Marty, 32
McCarthy, Molly, 144
McEwan, Ian, 108–109
McGann, Jerome, 75
McKenzie, D. F., 34
McLeod, Randall, 80
meanings of artifacts, 3–10
Melville, Herman, 47
memories, reconstruction of, 6–8
Metilli, Daniele, 80, 81, 82, 83
Meyer, Tobias, 49
Moby-Dick (Melville), 46–47
modern literary archives, practical and ethical principles of working with, 132–154
Modern Literary Archives Eng-L 460 (syllabus), 150–154
modern research library
role and nature of, 179–181
special collections role in, 178–179
monetary value of books and manuscripts, role of, 50–51
MONK (pattern recognition and machine-learning software), 162
Monmouth County Library, 85
Morgan Library & Museum, 31
Moser, Diana, 78
Most, Glenn W., 77
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), 136
N
Naismith, James, 48
National Archives, 50
National Center for Textual and Lexical Resources, 82
National Endowment for the Humanities, 74
National Historic Publications & Records Committee, 74
Neville, Maurice, 47
New Bodleian Library, 164
“New Occasions, New Duties: Changing Roles and Expectations” (RBMS Preconference 2002), 169
A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction, 75
New York Public Library, 179
Nguyen, Ly, 146–147
NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), 16
nonbook materials, booksellers and, 86–88
Noosphere, 100
Normal, David, 162
NPR (National Public Radio), 161
O
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), 159, 171
The Odyssey (Homer), 78, 79–81
Olson, Charles, 99
Omeka software, 147
Origin of Species (Darwin), 46–47
original items not representations, preservation of, 99–100
Ovenden, Richard, 160
Overholt, John, 38
Ozell, John, 79
P
PACSCL (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries), 172
paintings, antiquarian books and manuscripts as competition with, 49
Pamuk, Orhan, 32
Panitch, Judith, 175
Pappas, Elizabeth, 142
Parker, Barrington, 73
“Past Forward! Meeting Stakeholder Needs in Twenty-First Century Special Collections” (conference), 20
Patey, N., 80
Patino, Bernadette, 142, 145, 147
Pawn Stars (television show), 64–65
Perseus Digital Library, 82
photographs, 98
physical books
as artifacts, 5–8
information carried by, 70–72
monetary value of books and manuscripts, role of, 50–51
as primary source material, 69–70
physical objects and virtual representations, ability to offer both, 181
Plomer, William, 142
Poe, Edgar Allan, 135
policies for collection development, 13–14
Pope, Alexander, 78–79
potential donors, identifying and encouraging, 31–32
Pottle, Frederick, 70
Pound, Ezra, 134
Powell, Lawrence Clark, 63–66
practical and ethical principles of working with modern literary archives, 132–154
primary source material
example of students learning to use, 120–123
physical books as, 69–70
print collections, building and maintaining distinctive, 15–20
print retention partnerships, 17–18
printers, 4–5
“Private Collectors and Special Collections Libraries” (rare book forum), xiii
Provenance Project (University of Pennsylvania), 159
R
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University), 160
Rare Book and Special Collections Division (Library of Congress), 67, 184
Rare Book Forum (Library of Congress), 67
Rare Book School (University of Virginia), 31, 82–83, 86, 182
Rauner Special Collections Library (Dartmouth College), 117–129
RBMS preconferences, 82, 168–169
RBMS (Rare Books and Manuscripts Section) of the ACRL, 82–83
“Reconsidering Libraries and Scholarship: Special Collections and New Directions in Humanities Research” (RBMS Preconference 1987), 169
reconstruction of memories and artifacts, 6–8
Reddit, 80
research library, modern
role and nature of, 179–181
special collections role in, 178–179
Reynolds, Joshua, 111
River Campus Libraries (University of Rochester), 11–23
RLUK (Research Libraries UK), 159
Rogers, Bruce, 81
Rose, Stuart, 93
Rubenstein, David, 50
Rushdie, Salman, 103, 107–108, 109, 112
S
Sager, Carol Bayer, 73
Sanders, Deborra, 144
Sanders, Scott Russell, 142
Satterfield, Jay, 38, 48, 56, 88, 117, 171, 181, 190
Schlesinger Library (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard), 160–162
“Scholarly Communication and the Future of Special Collections” (RBMS Preconference 1992), 169
Schreyer, Alice, xiii, 67, 73, 77, 171, 191
Scott, Alicia, 150
scrapbooks, 40–42
searchable full-text database, creation of, 73–74
Shakespeare, William, 101, 110
Shankman, Steven, 78
Shaw, George Bernard, 32
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 163
Shufeldt, Mason Abercrombie, 142, 143, 150
signatures as coveted object, 102–103
Sinclair, Upton, 142
Small, Albert H., 33
Smith, Steven Escar, 38
Smith, Zadie, 113
Smithsonian Institution, 161, 172
Sotheby’s, 45–51
“Special Collections in ARL Libraries” (report), 178
“Special Collections in the Age of Digital Scholarship” (panel), 53, 58, 85
Special Collections Library (University of Michigan), 56
Specimen Days (Whitman), 103
Spender, Stephen, 135
Stam, David, 175
Stanford University, 172
starting the process of collection description, importance of, 177–178
Stauffer, Andrew, 16
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 125
Stephen, Karin Costelloe, 144, 147–149
Sterling Memorial Library (Yale University), 66
Streit, Sam, 184
students, relinquishing control of classroom experience to, 120–124
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, 33
stylostatistics, 110
Summa Theologiae (Aquinas), 11, 65
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), 47
Sustainable Collection Services, 16
Swan, Morgan, 123
syllabus for Eng-L 460 Modern Literary Archives, 150–154
Sylvie and Bruno (Carroll), 135, 136–139
“Symposium on Authenticity of Print Materials” (Library of Congress), 91
Syracuse University, 19
T
tachygraphy, 80–81
Taking Our Pulse: The OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections and Archives, 171
Tanselle, Thomas, 70
Tatem, Jill, 44
teaching with special collections, 132–154
“Techniques of Rare Books” (conference session), 168
technology and booksellers, 85–86
Tenniel, John, 137
Theimer, Kate, 44
Thévenot, Jean Coulon de, 80–81
Thomas, Sarah, 157, 173, 177, 191
Thoreau, Henry David, 102
Tickell, Thomas, 79
The Torrents of Spring (Hemingway), 47
training for special collections librarians, 181–182
Traister, Daniel, 184
transformation in special collections (generally), 73–83, 89–94
Tulane University, 172
“The Twilight of Rare Book Collecting, or How to Stop Worrying and Love Automation” (conference session), 168
U
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 147
University of Chicago, 76–77, 79, 93
University of Chicago Library, 76
University of Chicago Press, 77
University of Dayton, 93
University of Michigan, 56, 172
University of Pennsylvania, 159, 184
University of Rochester, 11–23
University of Texas, 32
University of Toronto, 80
University of Virginia, 16, 31, 78, 82–83
unprocessed collections and cataloging backlogs preventing access to special collections, 175–177
Updike, John, 98–99, 106–107, 109
user, bringing collection to the, 171–173
V
value of special collections, 178–179
Van Wingen, Peter, 184
Vander Meulen, David, 69–72, 78
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 131–132, 150
Victoria State Library, 163
virtual representations and physical objects, ability to offer both, 181
Visnjic, Vanya, 80
Vonnegut, Kurt, 142
W
Walters, Annie B., 103
Washington, George, 48–49
“Western Americana” (conference session), 168
What Jane Saw (website), 111
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope (Vander Meulen), 69
Whitall, Hannah, 148
Whitman, Sarah Helen, 135
Whitman, Walt, 51, 102–103, 136
“Will the Collector of Today Be the Donor of Tomorrow?” (Jackson), xiii
Williford, Christa, 158
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 163
Woodruff Library (Emory University), 172
Woodstock, 97–98
Worcester, Dean C., 145–146
Wray, David, 79
Wylie, Andrew, 107
Y
Yakel, Elizabeth, 15
Young, Neil, 99