Academic special collections librarians often design and instruct semester-long credit courses, using critical thinking and learning by doing as instructional cornerstones. This panel explores courses that privileged ...

“Shifting the Timeline: From Past to Future in Special Collections”: How do we shift the timeline in the pedagogical use of special collections from an exclusively historical perspective to one that includes the present ...

The final plenary will explore the ways we can develop and leverage collections to support and shape humanistic inquiry. Speakers who are creating special collections outside the traditional bounds of the academic library ...

Have you ever wondered how to enhance cross-departmental collaboration and enhance the dynamics of the workplace by the sharing of common interests — high quality cataloging, reduction of backlogs, efficient access/retrieval, ...

This seminar provides an introduction to working with publishers’ archives covering the evolving standards for organizing and processing these unruly collections over the past few decades; an overview of strategies for ...

Marginalized communities have a vested interest in the creation, preservation and curation of collections that document their history. Community archives emerge from awareness that limited or biased documentation impedes ...