Climate change has greatly increased the force and frequency of weather events. Many special collections and other cultural heritage institutions now find themselves directly threatened on a daily basis by these events ...

Climate change increases the probability of natural disasters even in areas previously deemed safe for special collections storage. As library staff, we need to be prepared not only to adequately respond to a disaster, but ...

Preservation activities contribute to anthropogenic climate change through the use of physical and digital infrastructures that often are hidden from view. Panelists explore the energy consumption and resultant pollution ...

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, scholars and librarians fetishized large repositories with collecting mandates that strayed far beyond the local. Mass digitization and the resulting aggregation, among other ...

"A Wider View of the Arctic: Indigenous-Language Materials on the Shelf and in the Classroom," by Adam V. Doskey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Abstract: Indigenous communities around the world are at the forefront ...

Extending the Narrative of Primary Source Research as a Process: Subject Specialists As Beneficial Interlopers in Special Collections Research Instruction There are several narratives we tell in our research instruction, ...

In 1972, researchers from MIT published The Limits to Growth, sharing results of computer simulations predicting outcomes for the earth’s resources related to population and economic growth. If growth continued unchecked, ...

“Take due notice of us for the future”: Archives and cultural representation at Williams College In the Fall of 2015, the Log, a Williams College campus gathering space, reopened after renovations. With the opening came ...

As archives and special collections grow increasingly central to libraries’ operational, development, and strategic goals, an increased demand for acquiring rare and unique materials has gained a visibility and urgency not ...

With systematic and strategic digitization efforts, digital humanities initiatives, and digital aggregations reshaping how libraries and archives make special collections and archival materials discoverable, the impact of ...