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
“Machine Learning, Archives and Special Collections” (October '19)Author: Clifford A. Lynch
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Library & IT Partnerships with Campus Museums & Archives (January '17)
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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
Bringing Digitized Special Collections into the Research Workflow through JSTOR: Outcomes of a Three-year Pilot (November '23)
Bruce Heterick, ITHAKA
Kevin Guthrie, ITHAKA
GPT Tools That Provide Source Information (November '23)
Gary Price, infoDOCKET & ARL Day in Review
Peter Brantley, University of California, Davis
Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross-Border (“LLTDM-X”) (November '23)
Thomas Padilla, Internet Archive
Rachael Samberg, University of California, Berkeley
The Stacks Platform: A System for Onsite Access to Rights Restricted Digital Content at the Library of Congress (Lightning Round) (November '23)
Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
Unexpected Opportunities Illuminated by Yale’s LUX Project (Lightning Round) (November '23)
Robert Sanderson, Yale University
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Recent Videos
ArchivesSpace at 10: Reflections on Developing a Sustainable Open-Source Content Management System (November '23)Jessica Crouch, ArchivesSpace
Christine Di Bella, ArchivesSpace View more information
COVID Information Commons—An Open Portal and Community for Research Collaboration (August '23)
Florence Hudson, Columbia University and Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub View more information
Held In Trust: Digital Technology in the Context of Cultural Heritage Preservation (August '23)
Pamela Hatchfield, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Foundation for the Advancement of Conservation
Linda Tadic, Digital Bedrock
Paul Messier, Yale University View more information
Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project (August '23)
Chela Scott Weber, OCLC View more information
Exploring Interoperability in Digital Migrations for Special Collections (May '23)
Michael Herrick, San Francisco State University View more information
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Recent Podcasts
A Conversation with CNI’s Cliff Lynch (September '22) Speaker: Clifford LynchListen to the podcast
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Facing Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation: The Research Library’s Role and Georgetown University’s Experience (December '17) K. Matthew Dames, Georgetown University
Melissa Levine, University of Michigan View more information
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