This forum built on the work of the ARL Special Collections Working Group [PDF]. The event focused attention on opportunities available in the digital environment for leveraging the strengths of special collections, making them more widely accessible. The co-hosts brought together librarians, archivists, and others with responsibilities for stewarding special and distinctive resources, and to identify strategies for advancing this goal.
Program sessions addressed:
See the proceedings for details and selected presentations.
ARL and CNI are grateful to the following organizations for their contributions to the forum:
Library of Congress for making the Montpelier room available for the Thursday evening reception.
Preservation Technologies and Alexander Street Press for sponsoring the Friday lunch.
Council on Library and Information Resources, OCLC, EBSCO, and Atlas Systems Inc. for sponsoring Fellowship Awards for selected participants.