Guest Editorial
Abstract
The future is plural. We see our present as a fulcrum, with a plethora of possible pivots, providing us with a chance to steer the futures of special collections libraries and archives. With the 2012 RBMS Preconference—Futures!—we endeavored to explore some of these possibilities, and we used the plural in our title to emphasize the many potential paths our libraries and archives might take.
The preconference’s plenary sessions focused on three components of special collections libraries and archives work: Matthew Kirschenbaum and Bethany Nowviskie explored how digital humanities and special collections inform the work of the other; Jon . . .
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