Archival preservation bridges the past and future, allowing the voices and stories of bygone eras to resonate with contemporary and future audiences.
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Internal Advocacy in Archives
Archival advocacy plays a pivotal role in addressing the challenges of the digital age; expert analysis and strategies.
Preserving History and Memory in Archives
Archival materials allow individuals and societies to examine historical events and gain insight into human experiences.
Embracing Diversity in Archival Work
Embracing diversity in archival work is a noble aspiration and a fundamental necessity.
Surveying Organizational Records
A records inventory includes identifying, organizing, and describing records; its steps include surveying, analyzing, and classifying records
Preserving Digitization Results
Digitization projects based on careful review, analysis, and planning are functional and faithful to the archival sources and support new scholarship
Investing in Archival Digital Projects
Archival digital projects offer greater efficiency, opportunity costs, increased institutional prestige, build staff expertise, and improve morale.
Strategizing for Digitization Projects
Archivists strategize before a digitization project. Digitization requires a significant investment, and assessing costs and benefits is essential.
Reading Room Recommendations
An archives reading room should provide reader comfort with optimum security for historical materials.
Processing Room Recommendations
A processing room provides a separate workspace from storage areas where archivists examine, sort, arrange, describe, and rehouse archival materials.
Archival Storage Room Recommendations
Archival storage should incorporate only the materials required to house and store the collections. Detailed recommendations and best practices.
Metadata Creation for Digitized Collections
Metadata provides users with a standardized means of intellectual access to digitized materials.
Descriptive Practices
Digitizing archival materials requires describing them to aid users in discovering them. Description is challenging due to detail required.
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