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Positioning Special Collections at Penn State University

Positioning Special Collections at Penn State University. Mike Furlough June 4 2013 New Haven CT Past Forward! Meeting Stakeholder Needs in 21 st Century Special Collections.

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Positioning Special Collections at Penn State University

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  1. Positioning Special Collections at Penn State University Mike Furlough June 4 2013 New Haven CT Past Forward! Meeting Stakeholder Needs in 21st Century Special Collections This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  2. “….libraries and their institutions will increasingly be distinguished by the special collections of rare and unique materials that they hold…” Don Waters, 2005

  3. “….taken to an extreme, the argument about institutional distinctiveness can also limit scholarly productivity by provoking the impulse to protect silo-like boundaries around collections...” Don Waters, 2009

  4. Assessing Collections

  5. Collection Development Policy Deaccessioning Process Improvement Improving Discovery

  6. University Region Special Topics (for teaching and research) Collections of Distinction

  7. Scholarly Communication

  8. “Data are the new special collections.” SayeedChoudhury, many times

  9. Univeristy Publication Outreach ScholarSphere | “ArchiveSphere” Digital Preservation

  10. Boundaries

  11. THANK YOU

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