LS 531 Academic Libraries Karen Gwynn 4/22/2010
What Makes a Collection Special? Items in the collection Librarians Users
How an Institution’s Collection Starts How a Collection is Defined Getting New Old Stuff Fundraising & Creative Collecting To Receive or Not To Receive Donations Hidden Collections
Institutional Users (research) Exhibitions In Classroom Work One-offs General Public Change in attitude: “get it, catalog it, preserve it” “get it, catalog it, promote it”
Curator Educator Preservationist Fundraiser Donor relationships specialist Legal-issues Savvy Intellectually Curious Loves old “stuff”
Preservation vs. Conservation vs. Discovery Born-digital
Collections at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama; Southern Historical Collection at the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University; Special Collections Department, Truman State University; Special Collections, The Ohio State University;
The Greatful Dead Archive, University Library— Special Collections & Archives, University of California, Santa Cruz; Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls, Special Collections, Rare Books Division, Stanford University; sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html