Here are the links from the Second Edition of the Handbook. See also the Collections management category. Links for online resources to follow.
New!
The No-nonsense Guide to Born-digital Content, H. Ryan and W. Sampson. Facet, 2018. Just out: I haven’t yet seen a copy but it sounds well worth a look!
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, www.cornwall.gov.uk/community-and-living/records-archives-and-cornish-studies/cornwall-record-office/cornish-archives-network.
- 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, www.bishopsgate.org.uk/Library/Library-and-Archive-Collections/LGBT-History.
- 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, http://www.aba.org.uk.
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, www.abaa.org.
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada, www.abac.org/english.html.
- 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, https://ccm.copac.jisc.ac.uk.
- Film Archives UK, http://filmarchives.org.uk.
- International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, www.ilab.org.
- London International Antiquarian Book Fair, www.olympiabookfair.com.
- Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association, www.pbfa.org.
- 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.
