Rare Book School
Preliminary Reading List

Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship

Alice Schreyer

Preliminary Advices

Please read/become familiar with the following before coming to Charlottesville:

ARL Special Collections Task Force. Minutes, documents and reports are available at http://www.arl.org/collect/spcoll/index.html. See especially Special Collections Task Force Final Status Report, 2006.

Carter, John. ABC for Book Collectors. 8th edn, by John Carter and Nicolas Barker. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2004. Indispensable and highly enjoyable. Also available directly from Oak Knoll Books, or it may be downloaded online as a .pdf file.

Traister, Daniel. "The Rare Book Librarian's Day. " Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship 1, no. 2 (1986): 93-106.

Your Old Books (Chicago: ALA, 1994). http://www.rbms.info/yob.shtml. Written for a general audience; useful introduction to concepts and categories of rare books and book values, and to FAQs rare book librarians regularly get about these topics.