Current Issue: Fall 2024
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Fall 2024
Artist Interviews as a Tool in the Preservation of Artists’ Books
Jessica Pace et al.
The artist’s book is a collecting area that continues to grow in academic and research libraries. While guidelines exist for collecting and cataloging artists’ books, there is a shortage of practical models ...
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Editor's Note • Fall 2024
Editor’s Note
Diane Dias De Fazio
When composing this Editor’s Note in July, I found myself too aware that this issue of RBM arrives soon after November’s general elections in the United States, and near the end of a year marked by challenges on academic campuses and to higher education, continued extremes in global weather conditions, and prolific expansion of artificial intelligence technologies in research, writing, and art. What will be top of mind for library, archives, and cultural heritage professionals by the time someone reads these words? ...
Article • Fall 2024
An Analysis of RBMS News Blog Job Advertisements, 2013–2021
Ikumi Crocoll, Kelli Hansen
While many studies related to library job postings exist, they are often not focused on special collections and archives. Those that are focused on special collections and archives usually offer more targeted research (e.g., a specific kind of librarian role within special collections). In order to begin to tackle the broader question of, “What types of jobs have been advertised to the special collections and archives community in recent years,” the authors chose to focus the study by analyzing job advertisements posted on the RBMS News Blog from 2013 to 2021. ...
Article • Fall 2024
From Mesoamerican Codices to Twentieth-Century Otomí Artists’ Books: Amate Papers in Rare Book Libraries and Special Collections Departments
Remy Jackson
Amate, a proto-paper traditionally made from the inner bark of trees from the Moraceae family of flowering plants, has an extensive history with origins in ancient Mesoamerican cultures from the region of present-day Mexico. In the 1500s, Spanish invasion of the region prompted rapid cultural loss and transformation resulting in devastating consequences, including the systematic destruction of Indigenous books. To further suppress Indigenous cultures, Spanish authorities prohibited the production of amate and replaced it with European papers. ...
