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
Library & IT Partnerships with Campus Museums & Archives (January '17)View Online View more information
“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)
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
The Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts: New Directions in Scholarship (March '18)
Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel, Johns Hopkins University
The Espy Project: Enabling New Access to Archival Materials (March '18)
Gregory Wiedeman, University at Albany, SUNY
Carl Grant, University of Oklahoma
Twila Camp, University of Oklahoma
Neural Networks: Machine Vision for the Visual Archive (March '18)
Peter Leonard, Yale University
Open Data as a Service in Special Collections Libraries; or, Let’s Be Sure We’re Better Than Data Brokers (March '18)
Scott Ziegler, Louisiana State University
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Recent Videos
Data Capsule Appliance for Research Analysis of Restricted and Sensitive Data in Academic Libraries (December '17)Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University
Erik Mitchell, University of California, Berkeley
John Unsworth, University of Virginia
Inna Kouper, Indiana University View more information
Open Educational Resources and the Black Press in America Project (December '17)
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University
Greg Britton, Johns Hopkins University Press
Wendy Queen, Johns Hopkins University/Project MUSE View more information
These Beautiful Things: K-State Libraries Collaborates with Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art to Create an Online Collection Application (November '17)
Jason Bengtson, Kansas State University View more information
A Linked Data Approach for Humanities Data (March '17)
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University
Jaap Geraerts, University College London View more information
Online Scientific Reference Sample Collections and Shared Linked Data for Heritage Science and Related Disciplines (March '17)
Fenella France, Library of Congress View more information
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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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