Session 7. University Archives at 2021: Are We There Yet?

Abstract

College and university campuses are vibrant places, full of change in terms of technology, leadership, and purpose. Two decades into the twenty-first century, academic archivists are faced with the challenges of today, yesterday, and tomorrow. The struggle between completing analog-based archival work while building digital collections with the latest and greatest tools is all too real. This session features three university archivists, at different stages of their careers, who will discuss how changes in practice in the past twenty years has affected their archives programs and shaped the future. The moderator will contextualize the session by reviewing several predictions about the future role of archivists made in the book Academic Archives (Neal-Schuman, 2012).