SCHOLARS AND TEACHERS: HIDDEN PARTNERS FOR HIDDEN COLLECTIONS

Abstract

Exposing Hidden Collections is very close to my heart because I was originally trained as an historian, an early American historian; and in doing both my undergraduate work and my graduate work, I was from the start a manuscript historian. I would guess that 90 percent of the materials I used in writing my dissertation were manuscript materials. So I have been at this a long time, and working with archivists and with rare books and special collections librarians all along. I did my undergraduate thesis in the Houghton Library at Harvard, which was presided over by an efficient and . . .