Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship (RBML)

Note: Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship (RBML) was replaced by RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage.

Editor: Sid Berger

Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship (RBML) is the journal of theory and practice covering all aspects of special collections librarianship. If you are looking for thoughtful discussion of special collections issues, or for an informed audience for your own ideas, consider RBML.

RBML solicits essays on collection development, preservation and conservation, public relations, fund raising, research use, the politics of building and administering special collections, organizing and describing collections, ethical and legal issues, automation, trends in the rare book market, the impact of electronic communication and data storage on the rare book and manuscript world, and other topics.

Topics of recent articles include: working with friends of the library to augment staff resources; security from water and fire damage, biological agents, theft, and vandalism; pricing scarce and rare books and manuscripts; collecting Western Americana; and educating and training special collections librarians.

Those writing for RBML may include special collections librarians, faculty and students in library schools, preservation officers and conservation technicians, booksellers, collectors, researchers who use the collections, and anyone else who handles, cares for, produces, or is otherwise involved with rare books and manuscripts. Submissions may include articles, presentations from relevant conferences, or book reviews. A $1000 RBML Award is given biannually for the best article published in the previous two years.

RBML aims to inform its readers about current issues and research in the field. Its book reviewers react thoughtfully to recent publications relevant to rare books and manuscripts curatorship. It focuses on librarianship, but may include discussion of the relationship between the rare book trade and libraries. It includes advertisements by specialist booksellers in many fields.

RBML is an independent ACRL publication, issued twice a year since 1986. You will receive it only if you subscribe. Do join in the discussion; subscribe and, if you can, contribute.

Subscription rates: $30 per year (U.S.); $35 (Canada, Mexico, or other PUAS countries); $45 (other foreign countries). Selected back issues are available; for details, write to the subscription address below.

TO SUBSCRIBE: Write to RBML Subscriptions, c/o Choice Magazine, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT. 06457-3445.

TO SUBMIT: Send your manuscript to the Editor: Sidney E. Berger, University of California, Special Collections, University Library, P.O. Box 5900, Riverside, California 92517-5900. Instructions for authors and further information on submission of manuscripts are included in volume 8, no. 2. Copies of books submitted for review should be sent to the Book Review Editor: Sidney F. Huttner, The University of Tulsa Library, 2933 East 6th St., Tulsa, OK. 74104-3189.

TO PLACE AN ADVERTISEMENT: Contact Stuart Foster, Advertising Sales Manager, Choice, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT. 06457, tel. (860) 347-1387.

This text posted on 1 November 1996 by Margaret F. Nichols Assistant Rare Book Librarian Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B60 Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-5302 Tel. (607) 255-3530 Fax (607) 255-9524 e-mail mnr1@cornell.edu.

ISSN: 0884-450X. 64 pages/issue.