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Special collections librarians must balance the need for access and preservation against the costs of staffing, cataloging and processing, physical space, and archival storage for a variety of formats. Web technologies offer new ways of reaching users, but come with significant costs.This CLIP Note focuses on policy issues facing special collections in college and small university libraries. A total of 146 institutions responded to a survey on special collections practices and provided sample documents on specific aspects of special collections and archives practice such as collection development, acquisitions, cataloging and processing, reference, outreach, fundraising, and the development of web resources.

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Elizabeth A. Sudduth is the head of Rare Books and Special Collections Processing and Services for the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina. She also compiled The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue. G. Ross Roy is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of South Carolina and an honorary research fellow in the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on Burns, and he has edited Burns's letters and contributed to the complete works of Burns. Roy holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh and is honorary president of the Robert Burns Federation.

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