Brave New World, 2050: The Implications of Shifting to Electronic Collections

This futuristic article discusses the shift in academic and research libraries to electronic collections in the context of information access, costs, publication models, and preservation of content. Certain factors currently complicate the shift to electronic formats and challenge their widespread acceptance. Future scenarios spanning skill ecosystems, technologies and workflows, and societal implications are explored as logical outgrowths of present circumstances.

February 2000: Advisory Board; Archives and Special Collections

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April 2006: Additional Resource Collections Available

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Civil War Song - Accession 56 - M26 (38)

The Civil War Song consists of a photocopy of handwritten lyrics of the American Civil War song entitled, “The Bonny Blue Flag”. This document was produced in the 1860s.