Queen’s University Library has been collaborating with the Internet Archive on a digitization project that uses Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) to digitally loan items from our print collection using technological measures to ensure that the digital copy is only available to one user at a time while the physical copy is taken out of circulation.[1] Our project follows the example set by the University of Alberta, which successfully digitized a large collection of historical education textbooks and made them available using CDL in the Internet Archive.
The thirteen titles chosen for our project are periodicals with multiple authors. Most can be loosely classified as self-published, small print-run fanzines or zines within the science fiction/fantasy/speculative fiction genres. We chose these titles because they were published in Canada featuring predominantly Canadian authors; they are not widely available in library collections or on the antiquarian book market; and they presently reside within Rare Books and Special Collections at Queen’s University Library, a non-circulating collection. {read}