The document discusses the future of rare books and how digitization, social media promotion, and collaboration can help increase access and funding for rare book collections. Key points include: 1) Digitizing rare books allows wider access while protecting physical items, and can help promote additional collections for digitization. 2) Cultural institutions are effectively using social media platforms like Twitter to promote rare books and engage audiences, which can increase interest in visiting collections. 3) An estimated 13 million uncatalogued rare book items exist in institutions, but creating a national online database could help make more collections visible and accessible to researchers. 4) Greater collaboration between libraries and more involvement of volunteers may help reduce cataloging backlogs