MARAC Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
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Item 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, BrianaPanelists 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.Item Storage and Technology Obsolescence: Evaluating Digital Preservation Capacity Using the Digital Preservation Capability Maturity Model (DPCMM)(2019-04-12) Rezaei, Fatemeh; Conlin, Kristin; Bell, LauraIn 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.