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New Issue: RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

RBM, Vol. 26, Issue 2, Fall 2025
(open access)

Editor’s Note

Fact Check
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

Navigating Social Networks at the Margins: Women in Science Archives, Then and Now
Bethany G. Anderson, Mary Borgo Ton, Kristen Allen Wilson

Neutrality Unbound: The Value of Rare Book Collections in STEMM Classrooms
Chad Kamen

“If This Book Should Chance to Roam”: The Importance of Children’s Marginalia in Rare Books Collections
Elliott Kuecker, Katie Grotewiel, Zoe Thomas

Reviews

Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang, eds. Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession. Library Juice Press, 2024.
Matrice Young

Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes, eds. Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives. Lever Press, 2023. Print/Open access.
Jeannette Schollaert

New Issue: RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

Vol 26, No 1 (2025) Spring

Editor’s Note
Editor’s Note: Work Is Work
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

“Some Days, My Work Is Unbearable”: The Impact of Chronic Illness and Disability on Recruitment and Retention for Workers in American Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries
Melanie Griffin

“But Do They Really Want Me?”: Reflecting on the Language of DEIA Adopted in Entry-Level Job Postings for Special Collections Librarians in 2023
Ruth Xing, Yuzhou Bai

Moving Forward: Membership and the Future of RBMS
Rebecca Bramlett, Eric Friede, Sophia Dahab, Michael Seminara

Getting Inked? A Survey of Current Institutional Marking Practices in Rare Books and Special Collections
Gemma Steele, Hayley Webster

Anthology: Papers from “The Power of New Voices”

Sustainably Critical Cataloging: Maximizing the Impact of Term Funding with the Black Bibliography Project
Mara Caelin

Making Third Spaces Safe Spaces: How Trauma-Informed Care Informs Librarianship
Lyric Grimes

Recent Issue: RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

RBM, Vol. 25 no. 2 (2024)
(open access)

Editor’s Note
Diane Dias De Fazio

Articles

An Analysis of RBMS News Blog Job Advertisements, 2013–2021
Ikumi Crocoll, Kelli Hansen

Artist Interviews as a Tool in the Preservation of Artists’ Books
Jessica Pace, Lou Di Gennaro, Josephine Jenks, Catherine E. Stephens

From Mesoamerican Codices to Twentieth-Century Otomí Artists’ Books: Amate Papers in Rare Book Libraries and Special Collections Departments
Remy Jackson

Reviews

Georgios Boudalis. On the Edge: Endbands in the Bookbinding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean. Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023. Hardcover, xii, 334p. $80 (ISBN 9781953421111).
Diane E. Bockrath

Jessica Brantley. Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Hardcover, 346 p. $65. (ISBN: 9780812253849).
Joshua Hutchinson

Recent Issue: RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

Vol 25, No 1 (2024)
open access

Articles

Crafting Connections: Bridging Collections and Communities with Knitting
Jacquelyn Sundberg, Kristen Howard

Narrowing the Lens: Preservation Assessment for Digital Manuscripts
Hafsah Hujaleh, Jess Whyte

“But I Believe Survival Is Based upon the Many and Not the Few:” Connecting Librarians and Artists to Build Special Connections
Courtney Becks, Sarah Carter

Describing Games for Special Collections Libraries
Elizabeth Hobart

Anthology: Papers from “The Power of New Voices”

Practical Book History: Making an MLIS Practicum Work for Me
Anna Opryszko

Overnight College Historian: Historical Whiplash and the Flexibility of New Archivists
Louise LoBello

Archiving Against Professionalism
Lia Warner

Feeling What We Teach: Mitigating the Emotional Labor Slide in Affect-Based Instruction
Anastasia Armendariz

Artists’ Books and Critical Literacy Pedagogy: Kara Walker’s Freedom: a Fable
Sam Regal

The Necessity of Embracing Collection Gaps: Moving Towards Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Collecting
Ruth Kramer

RBMS Notes

Chair’s Note
Sarah M. Horowitz

RBMS 2024 Conference Preview
Alison Fraser, Rachel Makarowski

Reviews

Eliasof, Jane Mitchell. Rebranding: A Guide for Historic Houses, Museums, Sites, and Organizations. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield/AASLH, 2022.
Mindy Price

Fox, Adam. The Press and the People: Cheap Print & Society in Scotland, 1500–1785. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. (electronic book)
Marian Toledo Candelaria

Announcement: Virtual Roundtable on Publishing, RBM Editorial Board

Join editors for printing history and special collections journals and book reviews on May 1 with your questions about publishing!

Have questions about how to turn your work into an article? Want to know more about the vast landscape that is special collections, printing history, and cultural heritage peer-reviewed publications? Join us for a conversation with editors of the following, who are all confirmed speakers:

  • RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage (Diane Dias De Fazio)
  • RBM book reviews (John Henry Adams)
  • American Printing History Association’s Printing History (Josef Beery)
  • Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (Sarah Werner)
  • Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research (Jennifer Hoyer)
  • Book History, journal of the Society of History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) (Greg Barnheisel)

Attendance to this special one-time-only event is open to the public and free, but you must register in advance through ACRL.

Register at the following link: ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/…

Title: ACRL RBM Editorial Board: Virtual Roundtable on Publishing

When: May 1, 2024

Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

We looking forward to seeing you there!

New Issue: RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage

Volume 24, No. 1 (2023)

CONTENTS
Editor’s Note, Richard Saunders

ARTICLES
Shelving Special Collections Materials by Size
John Henry Adams

Manuscripts in the Flesh: Collections-Based Learning with
Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Victoria
Shailoo Bedi, Heather Dean, and Adrienne Williams Boyarin

Placing Papers Update: The Black and Latino Experience in the
Literary Archive Market
Amy Hildreth Chen

BOOK REVIEWS
Janet Marstine and Svetlana Mintcheva, eds. Curating under
Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and
Upholding Integrity. Review by Martha Tanner.

Jane C. Milosch and Nick Pearce, eds. Collecting and Provenance: A
Multidisciplinary Approach. Review by Margaret Gamm.

Jamie Simek. Beyond the Bake Sale: Fundraising for Local History
Organizations. Review by Susan Illis.

New Issue: RBM

RBM Vol 21, No 2 (2020)

Editor’s Note
Richard Saunders

Research Articles

The Past, Present, and Future of Special Collections Library Literature
Melanie Griffin

No Mere Culinary Curiosities: Using Historical Cookbooks in the Library Classroom
Kathryn G. Matheny

Picking Up the Pieces: Library Processes and the Theft of Rare Materials
Greg Seppi, Dainan Skeem

Book Reviews

Bernard Meehan. The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin, fully revised and updated edition.
Diana La Femina

Kathy Peiss. Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe.
Joshua C. Youngblood

Michael Vinson. Bluffing Texas Style: The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins.
Brian Shetler

New Issue: RBM

RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage Vol 21, No 1 (2020)

Editor’s Note (this is to you)
Richard Saunders

Research Articles

Toward Inclusive Outreach: What Special Collections Can Learn from Disability Studies
Kevin M. O’Sullivan, Gia Alexander

Early Book Collections and Modern Audiences: Harnessing the Identity/ies of Book Collections as Collective Resources
Leah Tether, Laura Chuhan Campbell

Book Reviews

A Companion to the History of the Book, 2nd edition. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds.
Jessie Sherwood

Nicholas S. Paliewicz and Marouf Hasian Jr. The Securitization of Memorial Space: Rhetoric and Public Memory.
Lena Newman

Participatory Archives: Theory and Practice. Edward Benoit, III and Alexandra Eveleigh, eds.
Lauren Goss

Peter Botticelli, Martha R. Mahard, and Michèle V. Cloonan. Libraries, Archives, and Museums Today: Insights from the Field.
Greta Reisel Browning

Laura A. Millar. A Matter of Facts: The Value of Evidence in an Information Age.
Laura J. French

Trusting Records in the Cloud.
Tamara E. Livingston

New Issue: RBM

Vol 20, No 2 (2019), Fall
Table of Contents

Editor’s Note
Richard Saunders

Research Articles
Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections
Alison Fraser

The Positive Side of Eliciting Negative Emotions: Survey Results of Visitor Responses to a Library Exhibit
Meg Frost, Caitlyn Towne-Anderson, Kendal Ferguson

An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections
Judy L. Silva, Barbara McIntosh

Book Reviews
Trevor Owens. The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation.
Dan Noonan

Gerald Vizenor. Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity.
Ricardo L. Punzalan

Recent Issue: RBM

Spring 2019
Editor’s Note
Richard Saunders. “Editor’s Note.”

Research Articles
Maggie Gallup Kopp. “Internships in Special Collections: Experiential Pedagogy, Intentional Design, and High-Impact Practice.”

Sarah Wilkinson. “Who Owns these Records? Authority, Ownership, and Custody of Iraq’s Baath Party Records.”

Book Reviews

Cassie Brand. Eric Marshall White. Editio Princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible.

Katherine Fisher. Michèle Valerie Cloonan. The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World.

Tamara E. Livingston. Paul Conway and Martha O’Hara Conway. Flood in Florence, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective: Proceedings of Symposium, November 3 and 4, 2016, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Richard L. Saunders. John Carter’s ABC for Book Collectors, 9th edition. Nicholas Barker and Simran Thadani, eds. and Sidney E. Berger. The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others.