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Archives and Cultural Heritage Informatics: Rare Books

This guide is to help guide MLIS students that are concentrating in Archives Management or Cultural Heritage Informatics

Books of Interest

The Dictionary of the Book : A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others (2016) : Z1006 .B42 2016eb

The dictionary of the book : a glossary for book collectors, booksellers, librarians, and others (2016)

Rare Book Librarianship : An Introduction and Guide (2012) : Z688.R3 G35 2012

Rare Book Librarianship : An Introduction and Guide (2012)

Early Printed Books as Material Objects Proceedings of the Conference Organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich (2010) : Z4 .I58 2010

Early printed books as material objects proceedings of the Conference Organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich (2010)

Rare Books and Special Collections (2014) : Z688.R3 B47 2014

Rare Books and Special Collections (2014)

Ambassadors of the Book Competences and Training for Heritage Librarians (2012) : Z682.4.S65 A53 2012

Ambassadors of the book competences and training for heritage librarians (2012)

Guide to Security Considerations and Practices for Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collection Libraries (2011) : Z679.6 .G85 2011

Guide to security considerations and practices for rare book, manuscript, and special collection libraries (2011)

Online Resources

 

A Brief Guide to Starting a Rare Book Collection

 

Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious : The craft and art of binding books by hand was vividly chronicled in an exhibition at Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Entitled "Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious," the exhibition ran from November 10, 2002 through April 20, 2003 in the Library’s main gallery

 

RBMS Controlled Vocabularies : The Controlled Vocabularies for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging, developed and maintained by the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (ACRL/ALA)

 

Web Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger : A directory that aims to gather together freely-available online resources to aid in the cataloging of rare and special collections materials

 

The Role of Rare Books in a University Library : By Charles W. Mann of Pennsylvania State University

 

Simmons University Library Biblio Books Collection : An artificial archival collection, assembled by Rollo Silver, Library Science professor in the 1950s, to serve as examples of rare books and book binding techniques

 

 

Follower of John Singer Sargent

Resting, c. 1880-1890