Special Collections & Archives: Exhibitions 1991

From Digital Archives to Virtual Exhibitions

Digital archives typically act as stand-alone digital libraries to support search and discovery by users to access its rich set of digitized materials. Additionally, content stored in these archives have been used utilized and combined to create different thematic online virtual exhibitions (VEs). Such exhibitions are important complimentary counterparts to physical exhibitions, especially in t...

Archives and special collections on women in medicine.

Persistent Archives for Data Collections

Special Problems Of Special Collections

T LIBRARY of Duke Frederigo of Montefeltre, Count of Urbino, (14441482 A.D.) was described by his librarian and biographer Vespasiano1 as containing one perfect copy of every known work at that time, sacred or profane, in the original tongue or in translation. The duties of the librarian were clearly stated in a code issued under Guidobaldo I, son of Frederigo:2 He must be not only learned but ...

Information Literacy Instruction and Archives & Special Collections: A Review of Literature, Methodology, and Cross-Disciplines

This paper examines the role archives and special collections (ASCs) play in information literacy instruction (IL) in academic libraries, and explores how ASCs can use primary resource instruction to improve existing IL instruction programs for undergraduate students. An examination of the literature indicates significant possibilities for undergraduate IL instruction by ASCs. Lacking assessmen...