MARAC 2018 Spring - Hershey, PA 12-14 April

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    Discovering Joseph Eschenlohr: How Linking Records Illuminated a Life
    (2018-04-14) Hobson, Tiffany; Heger, Kenneth
    During the U.S. Civil War, thousands of immigrants served in the military, many receiving pensions upon discharge from service. The Bureau of Pensions kept extensive service records, which are now held at the National Archives and Records Administration, and those records now serve as popular resources for research, particularly genealogical research. However, many soldiers, both immigrants and U.S.-natives, moved overseas, leaving behind a paper trail which can be traced if one knows where to look. This project examines records from four National Archives records groups which document the life of Joseph Eschenlohr, a German-born immigrant to the U.S. who served in the Union army during the Civil War and later returned to his home in Alsace, to examine how linking metadata can help archivists maximize the discoverability of historic records, both to the benefit of the institution and the public.
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    The National Federation of Community Broadcasters Records: An AV-MPLP Convergence
    (2018) Gray, Adam
    This poster describes the strategies and methods employed to improve access to the audiovisual-rich Records of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB). It details the challenges to access resulting from previous collecting and processing decisions, and describes an approach in terms of an MPLP workflow. Supported by a CLIR Recordings at Risk grant, a reformatting project provides the chance to improve intellectual control and description as we capture metadata throughout the digitization process. Reconstructing decades-old accessions provides a means of reusing and enhancing pre-existing description without creating item-level inventories. Finally, our concurrent migration to ArchivesSpace presents opportunities to efficiently describe backlogged audiovisual materials alongside processed paper records of shared provenance.