New Online: Special Issue of ARL’s Research Libraries Issues Devoted to “Mainstreaming Special Collections”

Issue no. 283 (2013) of Research Libraries Issues (RLI) was posted online earlier today by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
Lisa Carter, ARL visiting program officer of the Ohio State University was the guest editor this issue.

What You’ll Find in RLI no. 283

This issue of RLI includes six case studies from ARL member libraries that are incorporating special collections more holistically into library initiatives. The cases were selected by the ARL Working Group on Transforming Special Collections in the Digital Age after issuing a call for proposals in 2012.
In an introduction to the issue, Lisa Carter provides an overview of themes that emerged from the case study submissions and she identifies areas for further investigation.

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• 36 pages; PDF

Direct to Individiual Articles

• Special at the Core: Aligning, Integrating, and Mainstreaming Special Collections in the Research Library
  Lisa R. Carter, Ohio State University

• Patron-Driven Acquisitions and the Development of Research Collections: The Case of the Portuguese Canadian History Project
  Michael B. Moir, York University

• “There’s a Great Future in Plastics”: Mainstreaming a Special Collection
  Sean Quimby, Syracuse University

• Integrating Special Collections into the Composition Classroom: A Case Study of Collaborative Digital Curriculum
  Matthew Vetter and Sara Harrington, Ohio University

• The Eaton Collection and UC Riverside Libraries: A Study in Driving Alignment
  Ruth M. Jackson, University of California, Riverside

• The Confluence of Collections at Johns Hopkins’s Sheridan Libraries
  Liz Mengel, Johns Hopkins University

• Metastatic Metadata: Transferring Digital Skills and Digital Comfort at UMass Amherst
  Robert S. Cox, Danielle Kovacs, Rebecca Reznick-Zellen, Aaron Rubinstein, and Jeremy Smith, University of Massachusetts Amherst 

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