Useful links from #rbscg12

Further to my reflections on the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group annual conference, 'Speaking Truth to Power', here are some of the useful webpages, projects and articles that were mentioned during the conference.

Collections currently or recently under threat

• The Women's Library
• The TUC Library and Archive
• The Wedgwood Archive
• Ushaw College Library
• The Mendham Collection

Collaborative digitisation projects

• The Bodleian and the Vatican Library digitising Greek manuscripts, incunabula and Hebrew manuscripts and printed books.
• The John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera at the Bodleian
• Saving Oxford Medicine
• The British Library and the Qatar Foundation

Other projects and libraries

• Sir Fred Hoyle Project, St John's College Library, Cambridge
• Samuel Butler Project, St John's College Library, Cambridge
• Library at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science
• Manchester Central Library refurbishment
• Manchester Central Library special collections
• Treasure of Manchester Central Library on Flickr
• John Lewis MemoryStore
• Robert Sayle MemoryStore on Cambridgeshire Community Archives Network

New use(s) of library space

• Cafe Rylands at Manchester's John Rylands Library
• The Cotsen Children's Library in Princeton's Firestone Library
• New University Library at Aberdeen

 Reports

• RLUK Unique and Distinctive Collections Project (report to follow)
• OCLC and RLUK survey into UK special collections (report to follow)
• Taking Our Pulse: The OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections and Archives (OCLC report into USA and Canadian collections)
• St John's College Library Annual Reports

Blog post

• Bloggers of the World Unite: Rare Book Bloggers and the Links They Build (post mentioned by Alison Cullingford)

Tools and resources

• COPAC collections management tool: "Libraries are continually faced with difficult decisions about what materials to keep, what to remove and what to conserve. At the moment, identifying whether items are rare, or indeed unique, within the UK is a time-consuming and expensive manual process. Our goal is to look at how Copac can make a real difference for collections managers. By making Copac data work harder and building the prototype on top of its extensive database, the collections management tool can provide valuable information from the catalogues of the UK’s major research libraries alongside rare collections held in museums, scholarly societies and university special collections." 
• Information about the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF)

 Organisations, recognition and funding bodies

• Heritage Lottery Fund Your Heritage Grants 
• Arts Council (formerly MLA) Designation Scheme 
• National Archives Accreditation Scheme

 Articles

• Browar, Lisa and Samuel A. Streit. 'Mutually Assured Survival: Library Fund-Raising Strategies in a Changing Economy.' Library Trends 52:1 (2003), 69-86 
• Winston, Mark D. and Lisa Dunkley, 'Leadership Competencies for Academic Librarians: The Importance of Development and Fund-raising' College & Research Libraries 63:2 (2002), 171-82
• Steele, Victoria, 'Of Sherpas and Mountain Climbers: The Special Collections Librarian in the Library Development Process' Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship 9:2 (1994) 77-85
• Attar, Karen E., 'Modern special collections cataloguing: A University of London case study' Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (2012)