It is interesting to see how other institutions provide online access to their rare special collections and how they highlight significant material through "online exhibitions"
Here are a few of my latest favourites...
Harry Ransom Center - The university of Texas at Austin has an information packed site which includes information on the history of printing based on their copy of the Gutenberg Bible. This is also useful for identifying significant material in our collections.
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library has a wonderful interactive site which provides access to their extensive map collections.
A Heavenly Craft - The woodcut in Early Printed Books at the Library of Congress isn't a bells & whistles interactive site but it has a lot of information and has been useful for identifying unique & significant material in our collections.
The Cornell University Library - Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections is always interesting. As we have lately been focussing on rare cookbook collections have a look at the Food, Wine & Culinary History section
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