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somewhat independently. Special Collections handles rare books, serials, and manuscripts. University Archives takes
care of institutional records and related manuscripts and also holds responsibility for institution-related serials and
monographs.
Special Collections and University Archives are separate departments here.
Special collections and University Archives processes all manuscript materials. A cataloger from technical services
catalogs periodicals and rare books with assistance from Special collections staff.
Special Collections Department handles the accessioning &acknowledgments/deeds of gift for all incoming archival
material.
Special Collections Department processes materials in the Hawaiian Collection, Pacific Collection, and Rare Books
Collection. Archives &Manuscripts Department processes materials in its four collections: University Archives &
Manuscripts, Hawaii Congressional Papers Collection, Hawaii War Records Depository, and Japanese American Veterans
Collection.
Special Collections in the MSU Libraries holds some manuscript and archival collections, primarily in support of our print
collections. A separate unit, University Archives &Historical Collections, which does NOT report to the Libraries, also
processes and holds archival materials.
Special Collections represents the combined formats of rare books, university archives, and manuscripts.
Special Collections Research Center which includes manuscripts, rare books, and university archives.
Technical Services processes rare books and serials Special Collections processes manuscript and archival material
Special Collections processes additions to Poetry Collection, a division of Special Collections.
The cataloging section of technical services catalogs the rare books and serials.
The History of Medicine Division is a combine special collections division comprised of 3 sections: Rare Books and
Early Manuscripts, Images and Archives (archives and manuscripts, moving images, prints and photographs, digital
manuscripts), Exhibitions. Chief’s Office has unaffiliated staff (Web programs, historians, systems).
The majority of special collections, associated monographs, serials and manuscripts, and archives records are processed
in Archives &Special Collections. Cataloging and loading into local/OCLC of cataloging records is handled by staff from
the Cataloging &Metadata Services team located in the Library (of which we are a unit but in a separate building).
The special collection unit of the Texas A&M University Libraries is the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives and it is a
combined library.
The Technical Services Department consists of archival processing and cataloging staff (manuscripts and University
Archives), rare materials catalogers, and technical services staff devoted to particular specialties e.g., electronic records,
jazz archives, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, film archives, and metadata and encoding.
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is comprised of the University of Toronto archives (corporate and personal papers
of the UofT community) and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (rare books, special collections, manuscripts, and
personal papers). A separate department at the University is the Media Commons, which collects Sound and Moving
Image collections, including manuscripts personal papers.
The Wilson Library Special Collections Technical Services Department is a recently integrated unit composed of rare
materials, North Caroliniana, archival, and other catalogers (chiefly working in MARC) and of archivists who process
both manuscript collections (personal papers and corporate records, including sizable photographic and recorded sound
collections) and university archives record groups.