Special Collections

Special Collections currently incorporate traditional analog materials, digitized versions of rare items such as manuscripts and primary sources, and born-digital materials that may be useful to scholarship in the future. CNI has provided a context for the discussion of emerging trends that will help institutions innovate in this area. We also feature the use of Special Collections as resources in the curriculum and in projects where students and faculty work together with librarians on digital projects.

Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff

“Special Collections at the Cusp of the Digital Age: A Credo” (December '09)

Author: Clifford A. Lynch
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“Medical Libraries, Bioinformatics, and Networked Information: A Coming Convergence?” (October '99)

Author: Clifford A. Lynch

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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings

A Study in SCARLET (March '12)

Matt Ramirez, University of Manchester

Oral History, METS and Fedora: Building a Standards-Compliant Audio Preservation Infrastructure (December '11)

Janet Gertz, Columbia University
Stephen Paul Davis, Columbia University

Progress in Access Technologies (December '11)

Edward Luczak, US National Library of Medicine, NIH
Jennifer L. Marill, US National Library of Medicine, NIH
Paul Joseph, University of British Columbia
Bronwen Sprout, University of British Columbia

Out of the Eddies and into the Mainstream: Making Special Collections Less Special and More Accessible (April '11)

Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Research
Ricky Erway, OCLC Research

The Cuban Theater Digital Archive at the University of Miami (December '10)

Kyle Rimkus, University of Miami
Lillian Manzor, University of Miami

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