Tag Archives for Archives
Collaboration in the Midst of Change: Growing Librarian-Archivist Partnerships for Engaging New Students and Faculty
This article identifies common themes in library and archive instruction and key elements of engaging first-year faculty and their students in becoming long-term patrons, in the midst of Georgia Tech’s Library Next initiative, a re-imagining of the twenty-first century library … Continue reading
SPOKEdb: open-source information management system for oral history
This paper aims to examine how an open-source information management system was developed to manage a collection of more than 10,000 oral history interviews at the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. Read More
New FADGI MXF AS-07 Specification and Sample Files Published
The AS-07 Application Specification specifies a vendor-neutral subset of the MXF file format for the long-term archiving and preservation of moving image and other audiovisual content, including all forms of Ancillary Data, together with Associated Materials. Among other features, AS-07 … Continue reading
Lessons Learned in Partnerships and Practice: Adopting Open Source Institutional Repository Software (Practice Article)
This case study examines three specific projects and workflows providing access to digital undergraduate honors theses, university serials, and music concert recordings. Lessons learned during the project include the success strategies for partnership formation along with the identification of project … Continue reading
Libraries and Archives and the Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Defining a Research Agenda
‘Given the importance of intangible heritage to the cultural and scholarly record, we believe that a more significant research program regarding libraries’ and archives’ contributions to the preservation of intangible heritage would be of benefit to both the scholarly community … Continue reading