The ARL/CNI Fall Forum, “An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age” was held on October 13-14, 2009. This was a superb event. You can find links to audio records of the talks and to presentations at http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/fallforumproceedings/forum09proceedings.shtml. Several outstanding papers from this conference, including a somewhat expanded version of Cliff Lynch’s opening remarks addressing why he believes that special and distinctive collections are of such strategic importance to CNI’s agenda, have been published as the December 2009 issue of Research Library Issues and can be found at http://arl.tizrapublisher.com/view/9ishf/prvp3/default; they are also linked to the talks in the proceedings page.
