HathiTrust Home | www.hathitrust.org. Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries. To facilitate the use of library resources throughout the country, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) promotes and participates in several aspects of resource sharing. The Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries originated as one of two projects of the National Plan for Collections Inventories which were endorsed by the National Library Advisory Board in 1984.
Originally published in 1992, the Directory was encoded by the University of Saskatchewan Library in 1995 in order to be posted online as part of Industry Canada's SchoolNet Digital Collections program. Later, Canadian research libraries agreed that the Directory should be updated and expanded. Accordingly, the Directory was transformed into an electronic database for the Web; it is fully searchable and can be easily updated and expanded.
Libraries of all types are encouraged to suggest new entries for the Directory and to keep existing entries up-to-date. New entries and updates should be sent to: RBS Preliminary Reading List: Alice Schreyer, Special Collections Librarianship. Rare Book School Preliminary Reading List Alice Schreyer Please read/become familiar with the following before coming to Charlottesville. The first and last titles are reference works of sufficient importance to special collections librarianship to merit rote memorization. Carter, John. ABC for Book Collectors. 8th edn, by John Carter and Nicolas Barker. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2004. Studies in Bibliography. English Short-Title Catalog.