Successfully managing rare book collections requires very specific knowledge and skills. This handbook provides that essential information in a single volume.
Steven K. Galbraith, PhD, is curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, and formerly the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Books at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. He has also worked as a rare book and manuscripts curator at The Ohio State University and a reference librarian at the University of Maine. He holds an MLS from the University at Buffalo and a PhD from The Ohio State University. Galbraith is the author of The Undergraduate's Companion to English Renaissance Writers and Their Web Sites and has served as general editor of the Undergraduate's Companion series and the Author Research series for Libraries Unlimited. His published works also include articles and reports on early English printing, book conservation and digitization, and the poet Edmund Spenser. Geoffrey D. Smith, PhD, is head of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. He holds a doctorate in American literature and textual studies from Indiana University. He is the author of American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography and is general editor for a series of textual editions of William S. Burroughs under the Ohio State University Press. Smith has written critical articles on Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorn, and William Dean Howells in addition to numerous publications on rare book and textual studies topics.
