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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"Special Collections at the Cusp of the Digital Age: A Credo" (December '09)
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“Medical Libraries, Bioinformatics, and Networked Information: A Coming Convergence?” (October '99)
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
Avalon Media System Update: From Collaboration to Community (March '16)
Jon Dunn, Indiana University
Evviva Weinraub, Northwestern University
Scott Walter, DePaul University
Sarah M. Pritchard, Northwestern University
Charles Blair, University of Chicago
Tracy J. Seneca, University of Illinois at Chicago
Digital Curation in Art Museums: Promising Practices and Opportunities for Education and Research (March '16)
Joyce Ray, Johns Hopkins University
Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Research and Policy Agenda (March '16)
Jerome McDonough, University of Illinois
Runaway Slave Advertisements: One Vision, Two Approaches (March '16)
Tim Bucknall, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Jason Kovari, Cornell University
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Recent Videos
Digital Curation in Art Museums: Promising Practices and Opportunities for Education and Research (March '16)Joyce Ray, Johns Hopkins University
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The Archaeology of Infrastructure (November '15)
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University
Jaap Geraerts, University College London View more information
New Tools for Providing Access to Digital Image Collections: Mirador and Spotlight (November '15)
Stuart Snydman, Stanford University View more information
Social Networks and Archival Context: From R&D to Cooperative Program (April '15)
Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia
Brian Tingle, University of California View more information View video
Archives and Digital Humanities (December '14)
Charlotte Nunes, Southwestern University
Mary W. Elings, University of California at Berkeley
Jen Wolfe, University of Iowa
Tom Keegan, University of Iowa
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