Readings
for Week Twelve: Special Collections and Archives
The following readings are available for class participants through
our course
page on Oberlin's Electronic Reserve system (ERes). A password
is required.
Please complete the following readings before Tuesday's class:
History of the Book
Traister, Daniel. "The Rare Book Librarian's Day."
Van Wingen, Peter. Your Old Books. [pamphlet] Chicago:
American Library Association, 1994. Available on the web: http://www.rbms.nd.edu/yob.html
Please complete the following readings before Wednesday's
class:
No specific reading assignment posted on ERes, but Jiann Lin
asks that you take a look at a few of the following publications
to get a feel for the field of East Asian Studies:
- Journal of East Asian Studies
- Journal of East Asian Libraries
- Education about Asia
- East Asian materials: a brief introduction for research at
member libraries / The Center for Research Libraries. Chicago:
The Center, 1986.
- East Asian Libraries: problems and prospects: a report and
recommendations / The American Council of Learned Societies.
New York: ACLS, 1977.
- Current status of East Asian collections in American libraries,
1974-1975 / Tsuen-hsuin Tsien. Washington: Center for Chinese
Research materials, Association of Research Libraries, 1976.
Please complete the following readings before Thursday's class:
Boorstin, Daniel J. "A Wrestler with the Angel," in
Daniel J. Boorstin and Ruth F. Boorstin, eds. Hidden History.
Harper & Row, 1987, 3-23.
Cox, Richard J. "What Is an Archival Record, and Why Should
We Care?" American Archivist 57:4 (Fall 1994), 592-4.
McCree, Mary Lynn. "Good Sense and Good Judgement: Defining
Collections and Collecting" in Maygene F. Daniels and Timothy
Walch, eds. A Modern Archives Reader: Basic Readings on Archival
Theory and Practice. Washington D.C., 1984, 103-113.
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