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The Special Collections Handbook

by Alison Cullingford

00. Introduction (some essentials)
01. Care of Collections
02. Emergency Planning
03. Understanding Objects
04. Acquiring and Developing Collections
05. Cataloguing, Description and Metadata
06. Digitisation and digital libraries
07. Legal and Ethical Issues
08. Serving Our Users
09. Marketing Collections
10. Widening Access
11. Resources: space and people
12. Influencing and fundraising
13. Futures …
14. Appendix A: Reference Shelf
15. Appendix B: Skills for your career
About the Author
About this site
Reviews

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October 5, 2011December 19, 2011 ~ alison-cullingford

Newly added: all the links for examples and useful websites from Chapters 1-6. Take a look … Lots more to follow soon.

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