ls 531 academic libraries karen gwynn 4/22/2010. what makes a collection special? items in the...
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- LS 531 Academic Libraries Karen Gwynn 4/22/2010
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- What Makes a Collection Special? Items in the collection Librarians Users
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- How an Institutions Collection Starts How a Collection is Defined Getting New Old Stuff Fundraising & Creative Collecting To Receive or Not To Receive Donations Hidden Collections
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- 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
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- Curator Educator Preservationist Fundraiser Donor relationships specialist Legal-issues Savvy Intellectually Curious Loves old stuff
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- Preservation vs. Conservation vs. Discovery Born-digital
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- Collections at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama; http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/collections http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/collections Southern Historical Collection at the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shc/index.html http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shc/index.html Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University; http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC Special Collections Department, Truman State University; http://library.truman.edu/departments/specialcollections.asp http://library.truman.edu/departments/specialcollections.asp Special Collections, The Ohio State University; http://library.osu.edu/sites/speccoll/ http://library.osu.edu/sites/speccoll/
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- The Greatful Dead Archive, University Library Special Collections & Archives, University of California, Santa Cruz; http://library.ucsc.edu/gratefuldeadarchive/gda-home http://library.ucsc.edu/gratefuldeadarchive/gda-home Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls, Special Collections, Rare Books Division, Stanford University; http://www- sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html http://www- sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html