What Makes a Collection Special? Items in the collection
Librarians Users
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How an Institutions Collection Starts How a Collection is
Defined Getting New Old Stuff Fundraising & Creative Collecting
To Receive or Not To Receive Donations Hidden Collections
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Institutional Users (research) Exhibitions In Classroom Work
One-offs General Public Change in attitude: get it, catalog it,
preserve it get it, catalog it, promote it
Preservation vs. Conservation vs. Discovery Born-digital
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Collections at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The
University of Alabama;
http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/collections
http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/collections Southern
Historical Collection at the Wilson Library, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill; http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shc/index.html
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shc/index.html Special Collections
Research Center, The George Washington University;
http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC
http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC Special Collections
Department, Truman State University;
http://library.truman.edu/departments/specialcollections.asp
http://library.truman.edu/departments/specialcollections.asp
Special Collections, The Ohio State University;
http://library.osu.edu/sites/speccoll/
http://library.osu.edu/sites/speccoll/
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The Greatful Dead Archive, University Library Special
Collections & Archives, University of California, Santa Cruz;
http://library.ucsc.edu/gratefuldeadarchive/gda-home
http://library.ucsc.edu/gratefuldeadarchive/gda-home Dime Novels
and Penny Dreadfuls, Special Collections, Rare Books Division,
Stanford University; http://www-
sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html http://www-
sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html
