1. The Challenge of Capturing Raw material for Scholars of the Future
Tomorrow’s “manuscript” collections Alice Prochaska 12 October 2011

2. A framework for debate Association of Research Libraries CNI
Canadian collaborations
JISC and transatlantic collaborations
LIBER and a European strategy for special collections
The IFLA and UNESCO contexts

3. Digitized Manuscript collections
Collaborations
Stand-alone digital libraries
Virtual exhibitions
The role of the curator/librarian
Shaping scholarship?
The role and nature of metadata

4. Virtual exhibitions (1)

5. Virtual exhibitions (2)

6. Librarians and Archivists as creators of content
Oral Histories
Visual resources
Capturing records of the creative process
Teaching resources
Research output

7. Created content: Oral histories
Duke Ellington
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Aaron Copeland
Images from Yale University Library Oral History of American Music collection
David Lang
Mel Powell

8. Created content (2) Fortunoff video Archive
Edith P.
Marion P.

9. Created content: visual resources
(ARTstor)

10. Fostering the creation of content: teaching resources
Collaborative Learning Center (CLC)

11. Collecting from the web
Technical issues
Questions of timing and urgency
disappearing and mutating sites
Ethical issues
Problems of scale
Visibility and its attendant challenges
Preservation
Accountability

12. Disappearing sites

13. Disappearance and ethics