"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") is a bimonthly report from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). This issue includes the following articles: (1) Special Collections at the Cusp of the Digital Age: A Credo (Clifford A. Lynch); (2) Moving Special Collections Forward in an Age of Discovery: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum (Lisa R. Carter); (3) The Collaborative Imperative: Special Collections in the Digital Age (Anne R. Kenney); and (4) The Changing Role of Special Collections in Scholarly Communications (Donald J. Waters). Each article contains endnotes.