Open Access<b>Alison Cullingford</b>. <i>The Special Collections Handbook</i>. London: Facet Publishing, 2011 (distributed in the United States by Neal-Schuman Publishers). xiv, 210p. ISBN 9781856047579. $125.00
Author(s) -
Laurel Davis
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
rbm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2150-668X
pISSN - 1529-6407
DOI - 10.5860/rbm.13.2.387
Subject(s) - publishing , library science , variety (cybernetics) , kingdom , reading (process) , special collections , media studies , facet (psychology) , sociology , computer science , political science , psychology , law , artificial intelligence , paleontology , biology , social psychology , personality , big five personality traits
This short, easy-to-use handbook was written by Alison Cullingford, the Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. It covers the world of special collections from soup to nuts in ten relatively brief chapters, capturing basic points and then pointing the reader to a variety of additional resources for more information. Each chapter ends with a list that includes further reading suggestions, examples and case studies, and useful websites. The focus is on special collections in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia, though much of the information is universally applicable.This is a particularly useful . . .