scholarly journals Forging the future of special collections

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-175
Author(s):  
Rachel Franks ◽  
Margot Riley
Keyword(s):  
Special Collections ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Digital Special Collections: The Big Picture

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Prochaska
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Journals ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
The Future ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Mass Digitization

As I started to think about digital special collections, I found myself pitching into a morass of unknown quantities and speculation. The dominance of electronic journals and aggregations of databases, followed by the news-grabbing mass digitization program at Google, has diverted attention from the fact that some publishers and libraries have been digitizing special collections for a couple of decades or more. For most of that time, an even greater number have been evangelizing the benefits of digital access to unique and rare materials. There was a time when I thought I had a clear vision of the future for . . .

scholarly journals Five Theses on the Future of Special Collections

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Overholt
Keyword(s):  
Special Collections ◽  
The Future

I was pleased to be asked by Shannon Supple and Nina Schneider, co-chairs of the 2012 RBMS preconference, to reflect on the themes of the conference in these pages. The presentations were engrossing and provocative, and I hope here to offer some equally provocative thoughts in response as my contribution to the ongoing discussion about the peril and promise—mostly, I firmly believe, the latter—that the future holds for our profession. The future of special collections is distribution. It hardly needs to be said that digitization, and the ability to share digitized materials widely, is enacting a wholesale transformation . . .

scholarly journals Guest Editorial

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Nina M. Schneider ◽  
Shannon K. Supple
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Many ◽  
Three Components

The future is plural. We see our present as a fulcrum, with a plethora of possible pivots, providing us with a chance to steer the futures of special collections libraries and archives. With the 2012 RBMS Preconference—Futures!—we endeavored to explore some of these possibilities, and we used the plural in our title to emphasize the many potential paths our libraries and archives might take. The preconference’s plenary sessions focused on three components of special collections libraries and archives work: Matthew Kirschenbaum and Bethany Nowviskie explored how digital humanities and special collections inform the work of the other; Jon . . .

Forging the Future of Special Collections

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-228
Author(s):  
Greta Reisel Browning
Keyword(s):  
Special Collections ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Staying in the Game

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-120
Author(s):  
Susan M. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Positive Role ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Hybrid State ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Future ◽  
Printed Materials

I have been thinking about the future of libraries, especially what I would call “special collections” or “research” libraries, for much of my career. During this time, technology has played an increasingly significant and positive role in libraries. In recent years as others wrote books about the demise of printed books and the end of the library, I dismissed this view and have been content to believe in a future for libraries that many have labeled as “hybrid.” I thought that this hybrid state of books and other printed materials coexisting in libraries alongside digital collections would last a long, . . .

scholarly journals Vegetation Classification and Survey: the first year

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Willner ◽  
Idoia Biurrun ◽  
Jürgen Dengler ◽  
Florian Jansen
Keyword(s):  
International Association ◽  
Vegetation Classification ◽  
First Year ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Vegetation Science ◽  
Article Type ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status

We report on the completed first volume of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), which included ten Research Papers, six Short Database Reports, two Long Database Reports, two Forum Papers and one Report. We highlight three outstanding papers as examples of contributions of which we would like to see more in the future. Finally, we announce a new article type “VCS Methods” and report about the status of two upcoming Special Collections. Lists of colleagues who served as reviewers or linguistic editors in 2020 are included in appendices. Abbreviations: IAVS = International Association for Vegetation Science; VCS = Vegetation Classification and Survey.

scholarly journals „Wierzę, że i ja mam wyznaczoną pewną rolę na ziemi”. Nieznane listy Jana Otrębskiego do Jana Rozwadowskiego w Bibliotece Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 37-70
Author(s):  
Greta Lemanaitė-Deprati
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Polish Academy ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
European Studies ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

“I Believe that a Designated Role on Earth is There for Me as Well”. Unknown Letters from Jan Otrębski to Jan Rozwadowski in the Academic Library of the Polish Academy of Art and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences In Kraków The Special Collections Department of the PAU and PAN Scientific Library in Krakow stores the correspondence of the eminent Indo-European linguist, professor of the Jagiellonian University, Jan Michał Rozwadowski (1867–1935). The collection includes the letters and postcards of Jan Szczepan Otrębski (1889–1971) and covers the period of thirteen years (1917–1930). It contains a lot of information on the considerations and doubts of the future Baltic linguist J. Otrębski, who at the moment was just starting his scientific career. Particularly clear is the thread of doubts about the rightness of choosing a career in science, and the lack of faith in one’s own abilities and the usefulness for science that often appears. The author of the letters repeatedly seeks advice and asks for help from professor J.M. Rozwadowski, who was then highly respected in the world of Indo-European studies. In the letters we can also find a considerable amount of the author’s reflections on various issues of Indo-European linguistics that bother him, which were later recognized as an innovative approach in the study of Baltic languages.

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