This reports presents 7 journalistic style profile interviews with the directors of rare book collections at the Boston Public Library, Emory University, the Washington University of St. Louis, Ohio State University, Abe Books, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The directors of these collections discuss digitization, personnel, fundraising, exhibits, acquisitions, endowments, special events, security, university relations, and other issues of interest to rare book and document and special collection management in museums, libraries and colleges worldwide. The study includes a postscript on trends in collection security.