5 Take Me into the Library and Show Me Myself: Toward Authentic Accessibility in Digital Libraries

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors VII
4. Librarian's Note IX
5. I. Reading Communities
6. 1 From Literary Salon to Library: The Female Mind and the Art of Reading Across the Color Line 1
7. 2 Women of the Roxburghe Club: Bibliomania, Country Houses, and Bridges to the Twenty-First Century 25
8. II. Building Collections
9. 3 Ushering in the Era of Expansion: Academic Libraries Supporting Change in American Higher Education, 1860-1920 75
10. 4 Decolonizing Special Collections: Building the Native American Literature Collection at Amherst College 93
11. III. Access and Accessibility
12. 5 Take Me into the Library and Show Me Myself: Toward Authentic Accessibility in Digital Libraries 111
13. 6 Changing Attitudes Toward Access to Special Collections 127
14. 7 Preservation of Electric Government Information: An Urgent National Priority 151
15. IV. Tools and Technologies
16. 8 The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts: A Special Collections Research Tool for the Twenty-First Century 167
17. 9 Virtual Reality and the Academic Library of the Future 185
18. 10 The New Wave of Digital Collections: Speculating on the Future of Library Curation 211
19. V. Networks, Collaboration, Community
20. 11 The Collection Is the Network: Collection, Collaboration, and Cooperation at Network Scale 245
21. 12 Refworld: Future Frontiers for Special Collections Libraries 257
22. Index 275