Collections Plan

2 main areas of collecting

Primary source material: both for browsing and for the most serious researchers: 19th c. novels, periodicals, etc (including a small but choice "domestic arts & sciences" collection) In short, pretty much anything published before 1900 that Caledonians say they'll be interested in having around. This could also include the important Steampunk titles, if we can get access to full text. (Even if not, I guess we could have "search inside the book" set up for them.)
See: http://www.infoisland.org/drupal/CaledonLibrary/ToDo/BooksToMake

Research collection: basically links to websites about the Victorian (etc. etc.) world (there are some excellent ones out there) plus books about the Victorians & their world, (if we can get full text) and there may be open access journals we could tap into, too.
See: http://www.infoisland.org/drupal/CaledonLibrary/ToDo/RefRsch

Smaller collections

• A "listening collection" of audio books, again focused on the 19th century.
• A "Local Authors" collection for books, stories, rantings, screeds etc. by residents of Caledon

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Suggested/requested by Caledon Residents

• Collection of textures, gestures, animations, etc, that are appropriate for Caledon. I'm hoping the residents can be moved to donate munificently to this collection.

The Caledon Archives:
Ordinal Malaprop has offered to write an account of Caledon Steampunk history. Accounts from other areas of Caledon's life?

Lists, guides & other resources

• "Tradesmen's Directory" of shops/sellers/designers whose stuff is suitable for Caledon. (Again, I'm hoping most of these references will come from the Caledonians themselves. Charlene Trudeau has already compliled a list of tradespeople in Caledon)
• List of suggested steampunk reading (Suggested bt Aldo Stern)