MARAC Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference

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    Archives Off-Site: Adapting to Serve our Communities During the Pandemic and Beyond
    (2022-03-26) Conlin, Kristin; Bell, Laura; Koukoui, Angela; Lutz, Christine; LoBello, Louise; Gormly, Briana
    Panelists from three institutions, one small, one medium, and one large, will share their adaptive and iterative approaches to their work while handling varying levels of access and opening between 2020 and 2021. Panelists will discuss the successes and challenges of coordinating archives projects and services in response to navigating online-only and hybrid environments in addition to physical building access limitations. Projects include finding aid migration to ArchivesSpace while working from home during the Pandemic; 'hot-wiring' SpringShare's LibAnswers to manage research and 'scan-on-demand' requests; and teaching virtually amidst new demands and the need to support synchronous and asynchronous instruction. The session will highlight the workflows and solutions each institution developed and continues to adapt. Panelists will also discuss how these solutions have and will impact archives functions moving forward.
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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.
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    Storage and Technology Obsolescence: Evaluating Digital Preservation Capacity Using the Digital Preservation Capability Maturity Model (DPCMM)
    (2019-04-12) Rezaei, Fatemeh; Conlin, Kristin; Bell, Laura
    In this panel presentation, Fatemeh Rezaei, Archivist; Kristin Conlin, Reference and Instruction Librarian; and Laura Bell, Archivist at the University of Baltimore discuss how to convey the importance of a digital preservation program in a data-supported framework that ensures continuous access to digital assets to library administration. An initial assessment using the Digital Preservation Capability Maturity Model (DPCMM) revealed that our library's storage and retention of records were based on individual department standards which were not uniform or implemented with archival principles for storage and retention in mind. In this panel discussion we share our experience using the DPCMM in the Robert L. Bogomolny library at the University of Baltimore, as well as the impact of the results and the departmental conversations that occurred surrounding digital preservation in our library.