Exposing Hidden collections

I assume most of you get CRL News, but just in case you don't, there's an article in the most recent issue about UCLA's experience with trying to expose hidden collections. And there's another article "Engaging undergraduates in special collections through English composition: collaborating for student success." Both are available here: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2008/june08/june1.cfm

--David

New spot for what's new and/or notable

Some of the special collections in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries will be using this Curators' Blog to highlight new and notable items among their holdings. The special collections represented are to be found in the

• Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library


• Historical Services at the Ebling Library of Health Sciences


• Kohler Art Library


• Mills Music Library


• Silver Buckle Press


• University Archives.

Watch this space for news of acquisitions and other holdings, exhibits, events, and digitizing projects.

For example, our holdings are filled with noteworthy decorated trade bindings, such as that for The fairy-land of science by Arabella B. Buckley (London: Edward Stanford, 1890), part of the Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library held in Special Collections. Many titles in the Miller Bee Collection are being digitized in conjunction with the UW-Madison Libraries' participation in the Google Book Project.

Decorated trade bindings, many of them from the Department of Special Collections, are included in the digital collection Publishers' Bindings Online (PBO), a joint venture of the University of Alabama Libraries and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Although the texts these bindings contain are not included in PBO, the PBO books from the UW-Madison Libraries will be digitized as part of the Google Book Project.