Present and Future Issues for Special Collections

Abstract

The 1987 Library Trends issue¹ provides a useful starting point for considering some present and future issues for special collections. We hope that some of these, which we identify here, may offer fodder for future editors of and contributors to RBML. The Library Trends issue was devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts. The opening article by Sidney E. Berger, “What is So Rare . . .: Issues in Rare Books and Special Collections” (pp. 9–22), discusses the primary concerns of rare books and manuscript librarians a dozen years ago. The world has changed in many ways since then, . . .