Here are the links from the Second Edition of the Handbook, checked and updated November 2019. I’m going to replace these with the links from the forthcoming Third Edition very soon! See also the Collections management category.
Examples and case studies cited in the Handbook
- Bradford University Special Collections development policy, www.bradford.ac.uk/library/special-collections/about-us/policies.
- British Library: acquisition of Wendy Cope archive, www.bl.uk/press-releases/2011/april/some-sort-of-record-seemed-vital-british-library-acquires-the-archive-of-wendy-cope and John Berger visit, www.bl.uk/johnberger/index.html.
- British Library newspaper store, www.bl.uk/press-releases/2015/january/british-library-opens-national-newspaper-building.
- Broadlands Archive, www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/Broadlands/index.html.
- Cardiff rare books, https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/tag/cardiff-rare-books-collection.
- Cornish Archives Network, https://kresenkernow.org/about-us/can/.
- Grateful Dead Archive Online, www.gdao.org.
- Great War Archive, www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa.
- Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, http://hiphoparchive.org.
- LGBT history at the Bishopsgate Institute, https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/lgbtq-history-and-alternative-sexuality-collections.
- Sloane Printed Books Project, www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/ sloaneprintedbooksproject/sloaneprinted.html.
- University History Project Westminster, www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-university/our-heritage.
Useful websites
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association, www.aba.org.uk.
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, www.abaa.org.
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada, http://abac.org/wordpress/en/.
- Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers, www.anzaab.com/Anzaab.
- Community Archives and Heritage Group, www.communityarchives.org.uk.
- COPAC Collection Management Tools, renamed Library Hub Compare, https://compare.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/.
- Film Archives UK, http://filmarchives.org.uk.
- International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, www.ilab.org.
- Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association, www.pbfa.org. Information about the annual London antiquarian fair can be found via this site.
- Tax incentives for acquisitions (Arts Council England, including Acceptance in Lieu and private treaty sales), www.artscouncil.org.uk/supporting-collections-and-archives/cultural-property.