Building on Strength: Developing an ARL Agenda for Special Collections

Working Symposium on the Future of Special Collections in Research Libraries

"Siberia, Shangri-La, or Center for Scholarship: Achieving the Vision for Special Collection"

June 28, 2001


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Table of Contents

Siberia

Review and Update Existing Policy

Guidelines for Collection Development

York University Libraries Special Collections Website

Build to Strength versus Build to 23rd Century

Spiderman: Welcome to the future of comics

Media and Special Collections

Deaccession and Transfer

Democratize Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript and Archival Collections

Digitize

Best Practices

Why Digitize?

American Memory

Sweaters

Making of America

Making of America

Nabokov

Harvard University Library Library Digital Initiative

Preserve and Protect

Increase Use and Visibility

Extend Use

Extend Use by Undergraduates

Fellows

Publicize Unique Materials

UC Berkeley

Publicize Unique Materials

C-Span.org

Develop new services

Staff development

Collaboration

Funding

 Author: Sarah Thomas, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, Cornell University

Program and Conference Schedule: http://www.arl.org/special/sched.html