Abstract
T he foundational premise of this article is that librarians and archivists frequently practice a form of self-censorship when making decisions about digitization of special collections and unique local holdings. This is hardly a controversial assumption, and it was nicely documented in ARL’s 2010 report on “Fair Use Challenges in Academic and Research Libraries.”1 In that document, interviewees report reluctance to undertake digitization projects because of uncertainty, and a tendency to select only the safest and most homogenous collections. As one interviewee expressed this view, “We have a lot of things in the public domain, that’s the ‘easy pickins’ for digitization.... We haven’t gotten into controversial ground.”2 The authors of the report elaborate on this tendency when they write:
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