Rare Book School
Preliminary Reading List

Donors and Libraries

Susan M. Allen & William P. Barlow, Jr

Preliminary Advices

Please read the following before coming to class:

ACRL Code of Ethics for Special Collections Librarians. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries/American Library Association, October 2003. URL: http://www.rbms.nd.edu/standards/code_of_ethics.shtml

ACRL Guidelines for the Security of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Other Special Collections. July 1999. URL: http://www.ala.org/ACRLPrinterTemplate.cfm?Section=Standards_and_Guidelines&Template=/ContentManagement/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8957

ACRL Guidelines Regarding Theft in Libraries. January 2003. URL: http://www.ala.org/ACRLPrinterTemplate.cfm?Section=Standards_and_Guidelines&Template=/ContentManagement/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8904

Barlow, William P., Jr. Book Collecting: Personal Rewards and Public Benefits. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1986, rep 1988. (Available from the Library of Congress)

Basbanes, Nicholas A. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: Henry Holt, 1995, rep 1996. (Also, other works by Basbanes)

Browar, Lisa. "An Oral Contract Isn't Worth the Paper It's Printed On." Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship 6: 100-107 (2, 1991).

Dickinson, Donald C. Dictionary of American Book Collectors. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
     [Especially the entries for Samuel Putnam Avery; Hubert Howe Bancroft; Edwin J. Beinecke, Sr. and Frederick W. Beinecke; James Ford Bell; Albert Bender; Albert A. Berg; John Carter Brown; William A. Clark, Jr.; William W. Clary; William L. Clements; Everitt, DeGolyer; Estelle Doheny; Henry Clay Folger; Philip Hofer; Henry E. Huntington; Thomas Jefferson; James Lenox; Amy Lowell; Tracy McGregor; John Pierpont Morgan and John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.; A.S.W. Rosenbach; Lessing J. Rosenwald; John Hinsdale Scheide and William Taylor Scheide; Isaiah Thomas; and Henry R. Wagner.]

Freudenheim, Susan. "Romancing the Collector: Will There Be a Storybook Ending?" The New York Times, March 31, 2004, F1, 13. URL: http://www.nytimes.com/

Schreyer, Alice. Elective Affinities: Private Collectors & Special Collections in Libraries. Chicago: The University of Chicago Library, 2001.

Steele, Victoria, and Stephen D. Elder. "Fundraising with Friends Groups," in Becoming a Fundraiser: The Principles and Practice of Library Development, 77-90. 2d. ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2000.

Stoddard, Roger E. "The American Book and the American Bookman: for Marcus McCorison on His Retirement," in A Library-Keeper's Business: Essays by Roger E. Stoddard, selected and edited by Carol Z. Rothkopf. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002.

Wroth, Lawrence C. "The Chief End of Book Madness." The Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions 3: (October 1945).

Note: In mid-June, all admittees will be mailed a copy of a memorandum written by Wm P Barlow, Jr, on tax issues relevant to the course. Please also read this memo before coming to class in July.