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• Education and Training for Careers in Special Collections: A White Paper Prepared for the Association of Research Libraries Special Collections Task Force

  Responding to data gathered by the 1998 Survey of Special Collections in ARL Libraries and anecdotal evidence, the ARL Task Force on Special Collections investigated issuesrelated to education and training...

• SPEC Kit 284: Security in Special Collections (October 2004)

  A scanned version of SPEC Kit 284 is available full view through HathiTrust.  View the document here » A print copy is available for $45.00 ($35.00 ARL members) plus shipping and...

• SPEC Kit 282: Managing Electronic Resources (August 2004)

  A scanned version of SPEC Kit 282 is available full view through HathiTrust.  View the document here » A print copy is available for $45.00 ($35.00 ARL members) plus shipping and...

• ARL Endorses Digitization as an Acceptable Preservation Reformatting Option

  ARL has endorsed digitization as an accepted preservation reformatting option for a range of materials. This endorsement comes from the work of the ARL Preservation Committee, and this statement was...

• Library Print Preservation: An Administrative Briefing

  George J. Soete with Janice Mohlhenrich Lathrop • 2003 • ISBN 0-918006-99-6 • 29 pp. This publication responds to a need articulated by ARL library directors for a brief non-technical...

• Hidden Collections, Scholarly Barriers: Creating Access To Unprocessed Special Collections Materials Innorth America’s Research Libraries

  On behalf of the ARL Task Force on Special Collections, UIUC's Barbara Jones prepared this white paper that lays out the problem, the opportunities, and some recommendations for how ourcommunities...

• Special Collections Statement of Principles: Research Libraries and the Commitment to Special Collections

  This statement of principles, "Research Libraries and the Commitment to Special Collections," was prepared by the ARL Task Force on Special Collections in December 2002 and endorsed by the ARL...

• SPEC Kit 272: Insuring and Valuing Research Library Collections (December 2002)

  A scanned version of SPEC Kit 272 is available full view through HathiTrust.  View document here »

• The Changing Nature of Collection Management in Research Libraries

  Article chronicling the history and current challenges of collection management.  changing-nature-coll-mgmt-mar99.pdf

• The Responsibility of Research Libraries for Preservation

  In this statement, approved by the ARL Board of Directors on May 24, 2002, the members of ARL reaffirm their commitment to preservation as one of the fundamental responsibilities of the...

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