1 Special Collections in ARL Libraries: A Discussion Report from the ARL Working Group on Special Collections (Washington DC: ARL, 2009): 22, http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/scwg-report.pdf. 2 Others who reviewed these principles include Paul Courant (University of Michigan), Chuck Henry (Council on Library and Information Resources), Wendy Lougee (University of Minnesota), Cliff Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information), Maura Marx (Open Knowledge Commons), James Neal (Columbia University), Merrilee Proffitt (OCLC), Bernie Reilly (Center for Research Libraries), Brian E. C. Schottlaender (University of California, San Diego), Winston Tabb (Johns Hopkins University), Karin Wittenborg (University of Virginia), and Ann Wolpert (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 3 Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections, The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections (Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001), http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub103/contents.html. 4 Merrilee Proffitt and Jennifer Schaffner, The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship: Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 2008), http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/ 2008/2008-04.pdf. 5 Peter B. Kaufman and Jeff Ubois, “Good Terms—Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization: A Report Prepared by Intelligent Television for RLG Programs, OCLC Programs and Research,” D-Lib Magazine 13, no. 11/12 (November 2007), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november07/kaufman/11kaufman.html. 6 Budapest Open Access Initiative, February 2002, http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml. 7 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, October, 2003, http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html. 8 Peter Hirtle with Tricia Donovan, “Removing All Restrictions: Cornell’s New Policy on Use of Public Domain Reproductions,” Research Library Issues, no. 266 (October 2009): 1–6, http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/archive/rli266.shtml. 9 See official press releases at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/home/News/ frameset _news.asp?PAGE=home_press.asp. 10 See, for example, http://hurricanearchive.org/. 11 Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/. 12 The Triangle Factory Fire, http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/. 13 The Making of America, http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/. 14 Katherine Reagan, “Books in the Age of Anxiety,” presentation at the “Books in Hard Times” Grolier Club Symposium, September 22, 2009. © 2009 Anne R. Kenney This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/. To cite this article: Anne R. Kenney. “The Collaborative Imperative: Special Collections in the Digital Age.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 267 (Dec. 2009): 20–29. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/archive/rli267.shtml. RLI 267 29 The Collaborative Imperative: Special Collections in the Digital Age ( C O N T I N U E D ) DECEMBER 2009 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC