CuadraSTAR SKCA Resources

& Archives Management Resources

CuadraSTAR SKCA Resources

& Archives Management Resources

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Success Stories

The Portman Archives

Intellectual Control and Alignment with Standards: Portman Archives Imperatives

The Portman Archives manages a diverse range of architectural materials; they digitized their holdings and use SKCA to search and share the collection.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Sequoyah National Research Center

Sequoyah National Research Center Expands Access to its Public Collections

With SKCA, the Sequoyah National Research Center makes its collections accessible to researchers worldwide, opening up vital materials and significantly extending its reach.

Baylor University Library & Archives

Baylor University Library & Archives, and CuadraSTAR SKCA: Inspiration, Discovery and Impact

Baylor University has over 16,000 students, and multiple libraries and archives; they use SKCA to manage 2,500 different archival collections.

Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records

Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records and CuadraSTAR SKCA

The Arizona State Archives uses SKCA to manage their collections and provide access to a wide array of materials relating Arizona history.

White Papers

Digital Sustainability: The Archivist’s Path Forward

A whitepaper for archivists with expert guidance on how to ensure archives’ digital sustainability by going beyond traditional archival methods.

Read an archives whitepaper written by expert, consultant, author, and Lucidea guest-blogger, Margot Note. Keys to Digital Sustainability: The Archivist’s Path Forward offers expert guidance on how to ensure archives’ digital sustainability by going beyond traditional archival methods to save digital assets— whether they are born digital or digitized.

Per Ms. Note, “A sustainable approach to archives recognizes that the technologies used today are not permanent solutions, but merely tools that archivists and users will use to facilitate access in the future. Digital sustainability plans for future access and use, but also recognizes the exigencies of current demands within archival repositories.”

Primers

The Archives and Collections Management Primer

Archivists preserve records enduring value, digitize them, leverage archives collections management, digitization, various archival projects.

Archives (or Archival) Collections Management System Primer

Archivists use archival collections management systems (CMS) like ArchivEra to make collections accessible to digital visitors and improve workflow.

eBooks

Digital Preservation Without Tears

By Margot Note

Digital Preservation Without Tears offers guidance from Margot Note, a seasoned archives expert and consultant. No one can understand all digital preservation concepts, tools, and actions. Readers of this volume will develop an awareness of digital preservation concepts, the ability to communicate issues, and a basis for further study. In a field of emerging best practices, this book strives to be a useful introduction to digital preservation. As the field codifies techniques, archivists should act now. No matter how small a step, implementing digital preservation activities helps support historical assets for long-term access.

The Archivists’ Advantage: Choosing the Right Collections Management System

By Margot Note

The Archivists’ Advantage: Choosing the Right Collections Management System offers advice from Margot Note, a seasoned archives expert and consultant, with significant experience in heritage organizations as both a practitioner and advisor. This book is for archivists engaging with the process of selecting an archival collections management system for the first time, or seeking to replace an existing CMS to address changing needs.

 

Demystifying Archival Projects: Five Essentials for Success

By Margot Note

Demystifying Archival Projects: Five Essentials for Success will benefit archivists who lead or participate in projects without formal project management training. As work in archives continues to become more project-driven, educational and professional development opportunities for archivists have not kept pace. This book aims to provide the needed information—just enough project management methodology—to bridge that knowledge gap.

Data Sheet

CuadraSTAR SKCA Data Sheet

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