MARAC 2021 Spring - Virtual Meeting 12-16 April

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    Celebrating the Legacy of Suffrage with the League of Women Voters of Baltimore City Records
    (2021-04-10) Bell, Laura; Moore, Christopher J.
    2020 was both the centennial of the 19th Amendment in the U.S. and the 100th Birthday of the League of Women Voters of Baltimore City. In preparation for these significant events the processing archivist at University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives and the SC&A 2019 graduate intern began a project to re-process the legacy collection, add a new accession, update the finding aid, and create a new digital exhibit. This poster describes the project itself, the internship experience and digital exhibit, and the archivist’s work reprocessing a legacy collection. The poster features how the archivist and a museum studies student intern collaborated throughout the project and highlight lessons learned.
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    Session 17. One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: Approaches to Reprocessing for Access and Digital Assets
    (2021-04-15) Bell, Laura; Baker, Dara; Brown, Renee; Todd-Diaz, Ashley; Knox, Felicity; Brent, Amanda
    Many archives face the challenges of juggling large backlogs, a continuous stream of accessions, and outdated collection descriptions with limited resources or all of the above. Although the archival literature increasingly discusses arrangement and description as a cyclical process, these ideas are not as acknowledged in archival education or practical training. Concepts to be addressed in this session include learning to process or reprocess previously created artificial collections with poor description to improve in-person and digital access; tackling legacy practices and creating reprocessing workflows; and thinking about reprocessing in the age of born digital and digitized collections. Panelists will share details of their projects, theoretical and real-world challenges, and lessons learned.