MARAC 2021 Fall - Gettysburg, PA 7-9 October
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Item The Pandemic, The President, and the Press: Access to the White House Correspondents' Association Emails(2021) Wachtel, Jennifer LeeAnne; Westgard, JoshuaIn collaboration with the White House Correspondents’ Association, the University of Maryland School of Journalism, and College of Information Studies, the UMD Libraries established the White House Correspondents' Association Pool Reports Collection in order to preserve and make discoverable pool reports shared among members of the WHCA. Newly available in 2021, this searchable database offers timely insights into the challenges of reporting during the pandemic and the presidential election. These presentations will explore the tasks of collecting, processing, and making emails available. Topics include: establishing a born-digital archive across multiple departments; harvesting, transforming, and redacting messages; extracting metadata; and how archives must tread a fine line between access and privacy.Item Capture and "Return": Iraqi Records in the United States(2021-10-08) Salive, NatalieAs the Taliban gains traction in Afghanistan, the effects of which will certainly reach museums, archives, and libraries, the lessons of these Iraqi collections loom large. In the Iraqi case, many of the records document horrific human rights abuses, and we must consider those who experienced this abuse as stakeholders in any decisions about the removal of property from its home country.Item Access to Born-Digital Performance Videos(2021-10-09) Testa, MattThe Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is serving the needs of its campus community by preserving and providing online access to recently captured videos of student performances. This presentation offers an overview of the workflows, systems, policies, and challenges involved in managing institutional recordings.Item 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 Creating Digital Preservation Policies(2021-10-08) Downing, MaggieDigital preservation needs to be addressed programmatically, but it can be hard to know where to start. Maggie will discuss strategies for creating a digital preservation policy as a key component for the development of digitization, digital collecting, digital preservation procedures and strategic planning goals. Maggie will provide tips on who to involve in planning conversations, general best practices, and sample documents.Item Conflict of interests: Meeting the needs and expectations of diverse users and stakeholders(2021-10-08) Alger, Susan; Burns, Tesa Lark; Henderson, JenniferS13. Meeting the needs and expectations of a wide array of users and stakeholders is a primary challenge we face as archivists. Panelists from Hershey Community Archives and Milton Hershey School Department of School History will discuss how they approach serving a wide-ranging group, all at once, and with limited staff. As both a corporate and community archives, HCA must balance the sometimes-conflicting missions of service to the Hershey Corporate Entities and educating the public, all while cultivating relationships with other community organizations. MHS School History endeavors to serve teachers, administrators, students, alumni, and more. Together, the two institutions collaborate to serve the Hershey community at large. Panelists will explore these challenges, possible solutions, and ongoing efforts to meet diverse user and stakeholder needs.Item Digital Reunification of JDC Archives Fugitive Collections(2021-10-08) Edelstein, JeffDigitization has created opportunities for the virtual reunification of dispersed material, opening possibilities to better understand the context of their creation or collection and the relationships among them. Jeff Edelstein will present the process by which the JDC Archives has been able to incorporate several fugitive collections, confiscated by Communist governments and inaccessible throughout the Cold War era, into its collections database and the flexible approach required to do so.Item Reunited and It Feels So Good?: Reunifying the Baltimore News American Collection(2021-10-08) Graham, Susan; Coulbourne, MarkThe Baltimore News American was a newspaper that operated in Baltimore for nearly two hundred years and closed in 1986. After closing the Hearst Corporation donated the photographs, and clippings morgue to the University of Maryland, College Park while the bulk of the photographic negatives were donated to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In 2018 an agreement was reached that would reunite the collection in College Park. Moving the photographic negatives would prove to be more complex than initially thought. The collection at UMBC consisted of approximately 48,000 glass plate and acetate negatives that were housed together in the basement of the Albin O. Kuhn Library.Item Program for the Fall 2021 MARAC Meeting: Sites of Memory(2021-10) MARAC: Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives ConferenceProgram for the Fall 2021 MARAC meeting, "Sites of Memory" held October 7-9 in Gettysburg, PA.