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
AMPlifying AV: Next Steps for the Audiovisual Metadata Platform (March '22)
Jon Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington
Shawn Averkamp, AVP
Collections as Data: Part to Whole — Lessons Learned and Next Steps (March '22)
Thomas Padilla, Center for Research Libraries
Yasmeen Shorish, James Madison University
Digital Archiving for a Volatile Planet: An Update on the Modern Endangered Archives Program (March '22)
Rachel Deblinger, University of California, Los Angeles
Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
Sharon Farb, University of California, Los Angeles
Gloria Chacon, University of California, San Diego
Shan Sutton, University of Arizona
Megan Senseney, University of Arizona
Veronica Reyes-Escudero, University of Arizona
Alana Varner, University of Arizona
Experimenting with JSTOR as Open Infrastructure for Primary Source Collections (March '22)
Bruce Heterick, ITHAKA
Clifford Anderson, Vanderbilt University
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Recent Videos
The American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project (April '22)Danielle Emerling, West Virginia University View more information
“The Public Debut of a Dream”: Doug Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework” 60 Years On (April '22)
Gardner Campbell, Virginia Commonwealth University View more information
Digital Borderlands: Integrating Library Services into Research Workflows through Data-Intensive Humanities Scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (March '22)
Shan Sutton, University of Arizona
Megan Senseney, University of Arizona
Veronica Reyes-Escudero, University of Arizona
Alana Varner, University of Arizona View more information
Remote Access to Archives and Special Collections and the Sourcery Project (April '21)
Dan Cohen, Greg Colati, Barbara Rockenbach, and Tom Scheinfeldt. “Remote Access to Archives and Special Collections and the Sourcery Project,” Plenary talk given at Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2021 Membership Meeting (March 24, 2021).…
View more information*Aligning Past and Present: The Migration of the Voices of the Holocaust Project (March '21)
Adam Strohm, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Recent Podcasts
Facing Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation: The Research Library’s Role and Georgetown University’s Experience (December '17) K. Matthew Dames, Georgetown UniversityMelissa Levine, University of Michigan View more information
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