Unique Collections Team

Charge

During the implementation, the Unique Collections Team will coordinate discussion and decision-making concerning aspects of the Shared Library System related to unique, special, and archival collections.

The Unique Collections Team will meet and communicate on an as-needed basis to resolve Shared Library System Implementation-related decision-points, collaborate with other implementation teams to ensure that the needs of unique collections are incorporated into decision-making, and to provide guidance for Middlebury College and University of Vermont libraries as they implement Alma and Primo.

The Unique Collections Team will identify liaisons from within the team to the Access Services, Cataloging, and Discovery teams. These liaisons or their designates will stay abreast of the other teams’ discussion and agendas, optionally join their meetings to participate in discussions, and serve as a conduit for Unique Collections’ concerns to these teams, and for the teams’ discussions to the Unique Collections Team.

Team Chair

Ben Panciera
Director of Special Collections and Archives
Connecticut College
bpancier@conncoll.edu

Team Members

Ben Panciera
Director of Special Collections and Archives
Connecticut College
bpancier@conncoll.edu

Aaron Bittel
Director, World Music Archives and Music Librarian
Wesleyan University 
abittel@wesleyan.edu

Deborah Kloiber
College Archivist
Connecticut College
dkloiber@conncoll.edu

Amanda Nelson
Associate University Librarian for Unique Collections & University Archivist
Wesleyan University
anelson01@wesleyan.edu

Kaitlin Buerge
College Archivist
Middlebury College
kbuerge@middlebury.edu

Chris Burns
Curator of Manuscripts and University Archivist
University of Vermont
chris.burns@uvm.edu

Prudence Doherty
Special Collections Librarian
University of Vermont
pdoherty@uvm.edu

Tess Goodman
Head of Special Collections
Wesleyan University
tgoodman@wesleyan.edu

Rebekah Irwin
Director and Curator, Special Collections and Archives
Middlebury College
rirwin@middlebury.edu

Joseph Watson
Preservation Manager
Middlebury College
jwatson@middlebury.edu

Ben Ide
Systems Manager
Boston Library Consortium
bide@blc.org

Meetings

The Unique Collections Team meets on the second Friday of every other month from 2 to 3.

We invite interested librarians and library staff from any BLC Member Institution to reach out to learn more or register below to attend a team meeting.