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Skidmore College uses JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to amplify and future-proof its special collections

Skidmore College’s custom landing page on JSTOR Many college and university libraries have amassed special collections that hold great value for students, faculty, and researchers, and a growing number are digitizing these collections in order to share them more widely and ensure long-term… Read More

Middlebury archives go global

Paper cutter painted by Sophia Thoreau and given to Eliza Hosmer. Abernethy Collection of American Literature. Middlebury College. In a way, it was a single image of a hand-painted letter opener that made Middlebury College librarian… Read More

For each collection, a solution

Johns Hopkins University’s vast collections, from the ancient world to the present, span centuries, genres, materials, and campus spaces. The Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, the Visual Resources Collection, and other entities steward these… Read More

How Southwestern University partnered with JSTOR to amplify its special collections

Unknown. Aerial Photograph of Downtown Georgetown Showing Train Tracks. 1930s. https://jstor.org/stable/community.34652668. Broad access is critical to an institution like Southwestern University, which houses one of the largest special collections for a university of its size. Located in The A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library on Southwestern’s Georgetown, Texas campus,… Read More