id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14548 Auchstetter, Rosann M. The Role of the Rare Book Library in Higher Education: An Outsider Surveys the Issue 1990-05-01 10 .pdf application/pdf 6350 410 64 Although this writer will make some later mention of special collec- tions, for the purposes of this paper, the two terms are distinctly different con- cepts.10 The need for rare book collections in universities can be defended on at least two levels: the idealistic and the practical. Rare book collections preserve these titles and others that for varying reasons are considered special. cache/crl-14548.pdf txt/crl-14548.txt