New Areas of Collecting in the Context of Shifting Realities: A Panel Discussion

Join the ARLIS/NA’s Special Collections & Archives Special Interest Group (SIG) on Monday, February 23, 2026 at 3pm EST / 2pm CST / noon PST for an hour-long Zoom meeting featuring 3 speakers for a panel presentation about the ways in which our budgets, staffing, current climate and other factors affect our practices and decision making regarding acquisitions in the manuscript, archives and special collections environments.

Presenters:

• Renae Rapp, Assistant Archivist, City College of New York
• Matthew Noe, Lead Collection and Knowledge Management Librarian, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Mary Saffell, Director of Special Collections, Texas Christian University

Moderator: Jamie Lausch Vender Broek, Librarian for Art & Design, University of Michigan