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Specific Databases

UW-Madison Digital Collections

View the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, especially

Libraries with Special Collections on Campus

UW Archives and Records Management for history of UW-Madison and UW System
Historical Collections, Ebling Library (Health Sciences)
Kohler Art Library, especially its Artists’ Book Collection
Mills Music Library, which contains various special collections as well as the Wisconsin Music Archives
Silver Buckle Press, a working museum of letterpress printing dedicated to preserving the craft of fine printing (moved in spring-summer 2016 from UW-Madison’s Memorial Library to Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin)
Wisconsin Historical Society Library & Archives

Journals about Special Collections

Among relevant titles are

RBM, which succeeded Rare books and manuscript librarianship, both published by the Association of College and Research Libraries (Rare Books and Manuscripts Section)
The reading room: A journal of special collections, a free electronic journal
The American archivist, a publication of the Society of American Archivists

Use the following subjects in an Advanced Catalog Search to find additional titles:

Libraries — Special collections — Periodicals
Archives — United States — States — Periodicals
Rare books — Periodicals
Manuscripts — Periodicals