Current Issue: Spring 2019
Research Article
Fall 2018
Course Design, Images, and the Class-Curated Exhibit
Prendergast and Totleben
This article discusses the restructuring of a literature course to include a student-curated exhibit featuring rare, illustrated volumes from the University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries. Faculty and library staff offered an experiential learning project for students to develop skills in the areas of primary source literacy, basic exhibit design ...
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Editor's Note • Spring 2019
Editor's Note
Richard Saunders
As editor, I must tell you that this issue of RBM might be more notable for what it fails to contain than for what it presents, worthy readers. You will notice that this issue runs a bit short. That is because—well, there is a story here. ...
Research Article • Spring 2019
Internships in Special Collections: Experiential Pedagogy, Intentional Design, and High-Impact Practice
Maggie Gallup Kopp
Archives and special collections can be sites of deep, experiential learning for college students, through hands-on engagement with primary sources in reading rooms or classrooms and through mentored learning experiences like practicums or internships. ...
Research Article • Spring 2019
Who Owns these Records? Authority, Ownership, and Custody of Iraq’s Baath Party Records
Sarah Wilkinson
Archives acquire records through a variety of circumstances. While they often have a direct and ongoing relationship with record creators (such as government records and national repositories), archives may also accept donations from record creators that align with the mandate of their organization. ...
Research Article • Fall 2018
Agility in the Archives: Translating Agile Methods to Archival Project Management
Cyndi Shein, Hannah E. Robinson, Hana Gutierrez
“Agility in the Archives” affirms the importance of project management in special collections and archives, demonstrating how agile project management methods can augment success in archival processing projects. ...