Libraries -- Special collections

Subdivided by subject or form, e.g. Libraries -- Special collections -- Chinese literature; Libraries -- Special collections -- Slides (Photography)

Here are entered works describing special collections in libraries as well as the methods used to acquire, process, maintain, and provide service using these collections.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Libraries
• Library resources

• Libraries -- Special collections -- Electronic information resources
• Libraries -- Special collections -- Electronic journals
• Cataloging of special collections in libraries
• Libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Special collections
• Libraries -- United States -- Special collections

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• Special collections in libraries

• The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)

• Digital Libraries (electronic edition; originally published 2000), by William Y. Arms (HTML with commentary at Cornell)

• Technology and Scholarly Communication (1999), ed. by Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress, by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images at NAP)

• Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All (2000), by Barbara T. Mates
  • HTML at ala.org
  • HTML at independentliving.org

• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape (2006), by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: a Contributor's Guide, by Stephanie Hall (HTML at LOC)

• The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (2002), by John M. Weeks, contrib. by Andree Suplee, Larissa M. Kopytoff, and Kerry Moore (PDF here at Penn)

• Special Collections in ARL Libraries: A Discussion Report from the ARL Working Group on Special Collections (2009), by Association of Research Libraries (PDF at arl.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Five Laws of Library Science (Madras: Madras Library Association; London: E. Goldston, 1931), by S. R. Ranganathan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory, ed. by Roger Stringer (HTML at inasp.info)

• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)

• Collected Papers of Frederick G. Kilgour, by Frederick G. Kilgour, ed. by Patricia A. Becker, Ann T. Dodson, and Lois L. Yoakam (page images at roytennant.com)

• Economics and Usage of Digital Libraries: Byting the Bullet (2008), ed. by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Wendy Pradt Lougee (HTML at Michigan)

• A Sanskrit Librarian Comes to America (1999), by Murari Lal Nagar, ed. by Margaret Ruth Lee (PDF at Missouri)

• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)

• Library Student Journal (2006-) (full serial archives)
• Urban Library Journal (partial serial archives)

• Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public and Leadership Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century, by Public Agenda Foundation (PDF with commentary at publicagenda.org)
• Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community (2010), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)

• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)

• Notices of Public Libraries in the United States of America (Washington: Printed for the House of Representatives, 1851), by Charles C. Jewett (page images at MOA)
• Our Starving Libraries: Studies in Ten American Communities During the Depression Years (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933), by R. L. Duffus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public Libraries of the United States: Their History, Condition, and Management (two parts: Part I is a report edited by Warren and Clark; Part II is Cutter's rules for a Dictionary Catalogue; 1876), by United States Bureau of Education, ed. by Samuel R. Warren and S. N. Clark, contrib. by Charles A. Cutter
  • Part I: page images at Wisconsin
  • Part II: page images at MOA
• The Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin on Books, Reading, and Libraries, 1975-1987 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989), by Daniel J. Boorstin, ed. by John Young Cole (HTML at loc.gov)

• Library of Congress Classification Outline (current edition), by Library of Congress (PDF files at loc.gov)

• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)
• Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library (2006), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF and HTML at diglib.org)
• Digital Libraries: A Vision for the 21st Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Wendy Lougee on the Occasion of Her Departure From the University of Michigan, ed. by Patricia Hodges, Mark Sandler, Maria Bonn, and W. John Price-Wilkin (HTML at Michigan)
• The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Open Access and Libraries: Essays from Cites and Insights, 2001-2009, by Walt Crawford (PDF at lulu.com)
• "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2011), by Alison Babeau (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (2008), ed. by Katherine Skinner and Martin Halbert (PDF with commentary at referata.com)
• A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services (2003), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF and HTML at diglib.org)

• The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment, by William S. Brockman, Laura Neumann, Carole L. Palmer, and Tonyia J. Tidline (HTML and PDF at clir.org)

• Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto, by Michael Keeble Buckland (HTML and PDF at Berkeley)

• Collected Papers of Frederick G. Kilgour, by Frederick G. Kilgour, ed. by Patricia A. Becker, Ann T. Dodson, and Lois L. Yoakam (page images at roytennant.com)

• Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community (2010), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)

• Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto, by Michael Keeble Buckland (HTML and PDF at Berkeley)

• Reference Work: A Textbook for Students of Library Work and Librarians (Chicago: American Library Association, 1930), by J. I. Wyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment, by William S. Brockman, Laura Neumann, Carole L. Palmer, and Tonyia J. Tidline (HTML and PDF at clir.org)

• The Joy of Computing: A Cookbook for Small and Rural Libraries (electronic edition, 2008), by MaintainIT Project (PDF files with commentary at maintainitproject.org)
• List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries, Compiled From Lists Used in Nine Representative Small Libraries (second edition reprinted; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1928), ed. by Minnie Earl Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries, Compiled From Lists Used in Nine Representative Small Libraries (third edition; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1933), ed. by Minnie Earl Sears (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh, ed. by E. A. Wallis Budge (Gutenberg text)

• Directory of Special Collections at the University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries, ed. by Margaret A. Howell (page images at Missouri)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.