1. Developing opportunities with archival collections Howard Stanbury Internet Librarian International October 2011

2. Agenda Opportunities Challenges Solutions / case studies

5. Opportunities for archive collections Libraries, Societies, Associations have unique, hard-to-find information of interest to wider audiences Dissemination of this information may further organizations' missions and goals Digitization can be the key to widening access to information, providing new revenue or income streams

6. Challenges for archive collections Identifying materials appropriate for conversion and commercial distribution Determination of rights ownership Coordinating with commercial sector to explore cooperation

7. Case studies

8. Newspaper collections

10. Godey’s Lady’s Book Written for the Lady's Book. MARCH, 1838. QUEEN VICTORIA . Victoria we consider as the representative of the moral and intellectual influence of woman throughout the British empire. In this view, her accession to the throne is, and ought to be, a subject of deep interest to her sex in every quarter of the world.

12. Primary source publications University of Iowa Old Library building in the 1900s © University of Iowa Special Collections

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