Hello Tom,

Although this may not be what you are looking for, RLUK has done a significant amount of work around Virtual Reading Rooms, which they define as:

Virtual Reading Rooms (VRRs) provide human mediated, real time consultations primarily for unique and distinctive collections which are not loanable or digitised. Via visualisers and online video conferencing platforms, VRRs provide a surrogate research experience, initial scoping of collections prior to digitisation or an in person visit, or a means of co-locating joint research for distributed collaborators.

There is an upcoming "relay symposium" on the topic and there is more information on their website.

https://iarla.org/2022/09/international-sprint-relay-symposium-creating-a-toolkit-for-vrr-services/

I hope this is useful!

Best regards,

Merrilee


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Can anyone offer recommendations on institutions or individuals that are up on the state of the art for virtual reading rooms? And/or any recent readings or presos on VRRs? 

Thanks, 

- Tom