The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are co-hosting a Forum, ‘An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age.’ To be held from October 15–16, 2009, in Washington, DC, the Forum builds on the work of the ARL Special Collections Working Group. The aim is to focus attention on opportunities available in the digital environment for leveraging the strengths of special collections, making them more widely accessible. The co-hosts seek to bring together librarians, archivists, and others with responsibilities for stewarding special and distinctive resources, and to identify strategies for advancing this goal.
The forum is open to all. In particular, directors of research and academic libraries, archives, and historical societies are encouraged to attend, along with other staff members who have responsibilities that encompass special collections.
Programme sessions will address why are special collections important? exploring the value proposition; collaborative strategies to build cross-institutional collections; special collections as laboratories for researchers and students; integrating special collections into the enterprise; and what changes with Digital Content?
The Forum website speaker and programme details are available online at http://www.arl.org/events/fallforum/forum09/index.shtml.
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