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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

Tag: Rights

Free your Orphans!

April 19, 2016April 24, 2016 ~ alison-cullingford ~ Leave a comment

Struggling with copyright?  You're not alone. Archives in the UK contain millions of "orphans".  These works are in copyright but the rights holder(s) are unknown or untraceable so we cannot get permission to use the works.  This means the works are in legal limbo and hidden from audiences who might benefit from using them. At … Continue reading Free your Orphans!

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