Elizabeth A. Sudduth Elizabeth A. Sudduth Clayton Tarr
This is a guide to the most comprehensive collection of "Burns and Burnsiana outside of the United Kingdom". Established in 1989, the "G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns and Burnsiana at the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library" is one of the world's foremost collections dedicated to the study of Scotland's greatest poet. G. Ross Roy, an internationally renowned Burns scholar, inherited the origins of this collection from his grandfather in 1958. Since that time, the dynamic collection has increased fivefold - and continues to expand through new acquisitions. This...
This is a guide to the most comprehensive collection of "Burns and Burnsiana outside of the United Kingdom". Established in 1989, the "G. Ross Roy Col...
Special collections librarians must balance the need for access and preservation against the costs of staffing, cataloging and processing, physical space, and archival storage for a variety of formats. Web technologies offer new ways of reaching users, but come with significant costs.This CLIP Note focuses on policy issues facing special collections in college and small university libraries. A total of 146 institutions responded to a survey on special collections practices and provided sample documents on specific aspects of special collections and archives practice such as collection...
Special collections librarians must balance the need for access and preservation against the costs of staffing, cataloging and processing, physical sp...