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The article discusses the presentation of a speaker about special collections during the Association of Research Libraries and Coalition for Networked Information (ARL-CNI) Fall Forum entitled "An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age" in Washington, DC on October 14, 2009. The author relates the distinctiveness of special collections compared to the book and serial collections. He then mentions informations on how scholars and students could work productively.

Information about several papers discussed at the Association of Research Libraries and Coalition for Networked Information (ARL-CNI) Fall Forum entitled "An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age" held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC on October 15-16, 2009 is presented. Topics include digitalization including social networking, and the Web 2.0. The forum features scholars, librarians, curators and technologists.

Information about several papers discussed at "An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age of the Association of Research Libraries and Coalition for Networked Information Fall Forum" (ARL-CNI) held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC on October 15-16, 2009 is presented. Topics include the use of drives for special collection activity, the role of special collections to academic enterprise and digitalization. The forum features the Mark Greene, G. Wayne Clough and Don Waters.

Presents information on items and access to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Statistics of books the library owns; Age and entrance requirements for person who would like to use its collections; Items that library visitors often ask to see.

Focuses on the utilization of the Internet and other technological innovations by the 19 branches of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL). Details of the library system's web site; Use of technology in making items in SIL's special collections more accessible; Advantages of digitally-scanned images of texts and original manuscripts.

The article reports on the move of the Environmental Protection Agency to close its Office of Prevention, Pollution & Toxic Substances' Chemical Library in Washington, D.C. in October 2006. The U.S. government is trying to close most of the agency's libraries as a means to lessen expenses, an action which is being investigated by Democrats and challenged by the employees' union. The library held special collections of books on pollution prevention, risk management, and biotechnology.

Informs about library collections. Archive on dancer Rudolf Nureyev donated to the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Ernest Hemingway material donated to the Library of Congress by A.E. Hotchner; Letters of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski acquired by the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor's Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library.