MARAC Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
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Item Transitioning Facilities Records from the Plan Room to the Cloud(2024-11) Groberg, Joanna; Williams, VivicaPresentation from the MARAC virtual conference on November 13-15, 2024. S23 Transitioning Facilities Records from the Plan Room to the Cloud - a Case Study at Georgetown UniversityItem Digital Preservation Planning: Choosing Systems(2021-10-09) Valigorsky, MarieArchivists from the Pennsylvania State Archives will share how they are managing and prioritizing digital preservation, highlighting the challenges faced in current projects. Although they do not have a preservation system currently in place, they are working towards the procurement of one. Similarly, archivists and librarians at the University of Pennsylvania worked collaboratively on common solutions for digital collections preservation among many silos. They will focus on a pilot project evaluating Preservica and hosted Archivematica, how these systems can be used in receiving, processing, storing born- digital records, and the next steps for a project done completely virtually. Presentations will be followed by a discussion with the panel and audience on digital preservation planning best practices.Item Moving from positive to negative : working across disciplines on large photograph digitization projects(2019-11-09) Lemmen, Barbara; Shilstut, Natalie; Starr, Laura Kopp; Taylor, NancyHistoric images are in demand—especially those available for discovery online. At the same time, digitizing large photograph collections can be daunting, particularly when a project involves balancing access and preservation with tight budgets, limited staff, and fragile or deteriorating objects. Outside collaborators can help leverage available resources and increase the effectiveness and reach of the project but identifying and recruiting partners and keeping diverse stakeholders on the same page can be challenging. Panelists will discuss collaborating across disciplines on two large digitization projects, the Religious News Service photographs, 1945-1982 (about 60,000 prints and negatives) and the Los Angeles Department of Public Works photographic materials (about 700,000 prints, negatives, and slides).Item From PPG Works #8 to the Work of Processing: Harnessing Personal Experience and Lifelong Glassworkers to Enhance Description of PPG Industries Photographs(2019-04-12) Green, SierraAs an archivist with the Heinz History Center's Detre Library and Archives, Sierra Green was afforded the opportunity to process the PPG Industries Records, a collection pertaining to the history of the glass industry in Western Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. For over 38 years, her father has been an industrial glassworker. As a college student during summer breaks, Sierra worked alongside her father as a glassworker. Serendipitously, this archival collection originated from the very same company for which her father has worked for most of his life. What follows in this presentation are her reflections from this experience as well as applicable strategies to partner with industry workers in order to enhance collection description.Item Improving Access to Special Collections through Collaborative Digital Scholarship(2018-04) Reynolds, AlisonThe William Henry Seward papers are one of the largest and most frequently accessed collections at the University of Rochester, but legacy finding aids were incomplete, incorrect, and confusing for researchers. In 2012, a history professor initiated the Seward Family Digital Archive, a student-driven digital humanities project that digitizes, transcribes, and annotates the Seward family correspondence. In order to bridge the divide between the physical collection and the digital project, a project archivist was hired to create an enhanced finding aid and serve as a liaison between special collections, faculty and students working on the project, and library IT staff. The result of this collaboration is a finding aid that links collection description to images, transcriptions, and student research on the digital archive website. This new finding aid, completed in 2018, serves as a comprehensive research tool that greatly increases discoverability of collection materials and serves as an example of the opportunities for intersections between finding aids and digital projects. This project examines the relationship between special collections and digital scholarship and raises the larger questions: What are the next steps in establishing the role of archives in digital scholarship? What should these collaborations look like?Item Archival Impact: Increasing Connections to Collections through Digitization(2016-04-15) Pike, Robin C.Digitization of collections can help to improve internal workflows, make materials more accessible, and create new and engaging relationships with users. Robin Pike from the University of Maryland will discuss how they factor requests for access into selection for digitization and how they track the use of digitized materials. Title of the presentation was "Managing Digitization Priorities with Metrics." Session 1 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference spring 2016 meeting.Item Finding Common Ground: Introducing Early Career Librarians to Archival Work(2017-04-22) Lydon, Jessica M.; Chiu, AnastasiaPresentation from the MARAC conference in Newark, NJ on April 20–22, 2017, S16. Speaking the Same Language: Approaches to Training Non-Archivists and Archivists-in-Training.Item Digitization Project Prioritization and Funding(2017-04-21) Pike, Robin C.Digitization projects compete for funding and other resources with other programmatic functions of archives and libraries. The speakers in this session will discuss their strategies for transforming digitization activities from ad-hoc projects into a systematic part of their operations. They will also compare the business models or strategies employed by institutions with differing sizes, staffing levels, and funding models to identify and secure funding, prioritize resources and projects, and manage digitization projects to completion.Item "Re-discovery" and the Transformation of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens Film(2014-04-26) Razon, RonaPresentation titled, "'Re-discovery' and the Transformation of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens Film" given by Rosa Razon at the MARAC Spring 2014 conference, S16 - April 26, 2014, Rochester, NY