RLI 283 Special at the Core 5 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC 2013 Endnotes 1 Jackie M. Dooley and Katherine Luce, Taking Our Pulse: The OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections and Archives (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research, 2010), http://www.oclc.org/research/ publications/library/2010/2010-11.pdf. 2 Nicolas Barker, “Introduction,” in Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries, ed. Philip N. Cronenwett, Kevin Osborn, Samuel A. Streit (Washington, DC: ARL, 2007), 15, http://www.celebratingresearch.org/intro/intro.shtml. 3 H. Thomas Hickerson, “Rebalancing the Investment in Collections,” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 277 (Dec. 2011): 5, http://publications.arl.org/ rli277/6. 4 ARL Task Force on 21st-Century Research Library Collections, “Issue Brief: 21st-Century Collections: Calibration of Investment and Collaborative Action,” March 10, 2012, http://www.arl. org/storage/documents/publications/issue-brief-21st-century-collections-2012.pdf. 5 Barker, “Introduction,” 15. 6 Eleanor Mitchell, Peggy Seiden, Suzy Taraba, eds., Past or Portal? Enhancing Undergraduate Learning through Special Collections and Archives (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2012). 7 Hickerson, “Rebalancing the Investment in Collections,” 6. © 2013 Lisa R. Carter This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. To cite this article: Lisa R. Carter. “Special at the Core: Aligning, Integrating, and Mainstreaming Special Collections in the Research Library.” Research Library Issues: A Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 283 (2013): 1-5. http://publications.arl.org/rli283/.