The shifting nature of special collections
From rare books to comic books. Congratulations to the University of Minnesota for scoring what sounds like quite a collection, built over a lifetime. Soon the comics were beginning to …
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Richard Ovenden, the next 10 years in special collections
Our friends at UC Berkeley reminded me that I was going to blog about the talk that Richard Ovenden (Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford) …
Read MoreSupport for SAA IP Working Group
(This went out on RLG Announce earlier today. You can subscribe to RLG Announce if you are an RLG Programs Partner.) I’m pleased to report that RLG Programs is giving …
Read MoreFran Blouin, talk at UC Berkeley
The UC Berkeley Libraries are going through a future visioning and planning exercise and are bringing in a number of outside speakers to help spur thinking in a number of …
Read MorePresident of Harvard, “archive rat”
The new president of Harvard, Drew Faust, is an avowed “archive rat.” There’s a profile about her in today’s Washington Post, and that term is used four times by my …
Read MoreFlickr inaugurates “The Commons” with Library of Congress collections
Flickr and the Library of Congress just announced a prototype which will bring 1,500 or 3,000 photographs (depending on whether you believe the Flickr or the LC blog) from two …
Read MoreSpecial Collections – the big agenda
In an earlier post I reported some impressions from attending the ARL Special Collections Working Group (SCWG) meeting. One of the reasons that I was there is the large role …
Read MoreSpecial Collections – the big deal
I attended the Association of Research Libraries Membership Meeting last week. The Special Collections Working Group of ARL met for nearly a full day and I was pleased to be …
Read MoreNext generation finding aids: beyond paper?
I was talking to some colleagues at the California Digital Library on Friday about the future of finding aids. Rosalie Lack asked me to swing by and give a recap …
Read MoreDoing more with less — NHPRC grant programs
I’ve been meaning to write about the new NHPRC (National Historical Publications and Records Commission) grant programs for a while now, because I think they will challenge the archival community …
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