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Ebb and Flow: the migration of collections to American libraries: a report.
The 45th Annual Preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries took place at Yale University from 21 June through 24 June 2004. It focused on the international origins of special collections in U.S. repositories as well as current ethical and management issues surrounding these materials.
The plenary sessions began with Alice Prochaska (Yale University) presenting a paper entitled "Some Issues Relating to the Ownership of Manuscripts." Taking her cue from similar remarks she made at the conclusion of the 2003 RBMS Preconference, Prochaska noted that many special collections have a complex history of ownership and therefore might be said to belong to more than one country. In effect, they "contain the DNA of our shared past," and ownership thus implies a responsibility to share them with the citizens of other lands. The consideration of ethical issues deriving from the ownership of foreign collections first came to the fore after World War II, and since then many countries as well as UNESCO have developed policies on the proper exportation of national cultural treasures.
James Raven (Essex University) took an historical overview in his paper, "Transatlantic Migrations in the Colonial Period." He reviewed the principal sources of…
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