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Extra Special: Merging Special Collections With University Archives, Delinda Stephens Buie, Caroline Daniels, Rachel I. Howard, Elizabeth E. Reilly
Extra Special: Merging Special Collections With University Archives, Delinda Stephens Buie, Caroline Daniels, Rachel I. Howard, Elizabeth E. Reilly
Elizabeth Reilly
With budget constraints and hiring freezes becoming the new normal, and users expecting more open access to libraries’ unique primary source materials regardless of their physical location, university libraries must do more with less. Special collections and university archives departments that have been administered separately for decades are now merging in order to share service points, staffing, and climate-controlled storage – as well as digitization services. The benefits of undertaking this organizational change are offset by the challenges of merging different organizational cultures and the logistics of modifying things like signage. When the heads of rare books, photographic archives, university …