Association of Research Libraries (ARL®)

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CLIR Launches National Program to Identify and Catalog Hidden Special Collections and Archives

Overview

The challenge of providing access to uncataloged, unprocessed, or underprocessed archival, manuscript, and rare book materials was a primary focus of the ARL Special Collections Task Force, 2001-2006.

For an overview of these efforts, see the Special Collections Task Force Final Status Report, 2006.

Resources

• ARL Special Collections Task Force Final Status Report, 2006

• Survey to Identify Common Interests in Unprocessed Collections, 2004

• Hidden Collections, Scholarly Barriers, White Paper, 2003 [PDF]

• Exposing Hidden Collections: 2003 Conference Summary