The Special Collections Handbook (2nd edition)

This revised version of the 2011 first edition gives a vastly updated account of special collections, an area of the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums sector that has seen much movement in the past few years, what with the rapid pace of technology and the advent of many new and exciting projects which have been enabled in great part due to those technologies. As an update, this is well worth replacing the earlier edition to keep current with these fast-moving changes. It also offers practical advice for a profession which has increasingly had to face the malaise of shoe-string budgets,...