Manuscript Collections

Manuscript collections: The Jeannette Dean-Throckmorton papers.

standards for ethical conduct for rare book, manuscript, and special collections libraries and librarians

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"Stuff Happens": A Brief Overview of the 2003 Destruction of Iraqi Manuscript Collections, Archives, and Libraries

On March 20, 2003, military forces of the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia invaded Iraq. In the course of this invasion and subsequent occupation, Iraq’s cultural infrastructure suffered a great deal of destruction. While international attention has focused primarily on the immense destruction done to the country’s preIslamic archaeological assets, domestic Iraqi attention has focus...

Public Services and Outreach in Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Libraries

RAREBOOK, MANUSCRIPT, A N D SPECIAL COLLECTIONS libraries remain both more difficult and more forbidding to use than any other parts of most libraries.A shift from an ethos that emphasized acquisition, catalogmg, and preservation has brought into new prominence issues generally grouped together under the rubric of “promotion.” This essay considers some of the ways in which this addition to the ...

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