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Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

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Archives, Records Management, and Digital Curation

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Restoring Trust Relationships within the Framework of Collaborative Digital Preservation Federations

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-03-11) McDonald, Robert H. ; Walters, Tyler O.

The authors extend their process for creating and establishing trust relationships to include steps for restoring trust relationships after catastrophic events. Part of this model will include best practices for business continuity relationships and will integrate trust models from Holland and Lockett (1998) and Ring and Van de Ven (1994) and how they can be applied to a process for trust restoration after periods of disaster or critical data loss. These models provide key frameworks for understanding how trust can be utilized for collaborative start points as well as for collaborative recovery points from physical natural disaster or critical data loss. Additionally, the authors will present findings from an audience poll conducted on May 15, 2009 during the presentation of this topic at the 4th International Conference on Open Repositories with additional conclusions and commentary.
Reinventing the Library --How Repositories Are Causing Librarians to Rethink Their Professional Roles

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-04) Walters, Tyler O.

The rise of digital repositories is helping libraries reinvent themselves. The benefits to libraries and universities creating institutional repositories (IRs) are great as libraries restructure, pursue collaborations, and re-position themselves to become major digital publishers and broadcasters in the scholarly world. They will no longer be passive receivers of information but active disseminators of intellectual output for entire universities. This article explores the IR's role in overall library transformation and examines the organizational changes and internal partnerships necessary to strengthen IR programs. Specifically, the creation of digital library initiatives units as well as changes to other library units are discussed.
A Natural Collaboration: Preservation for Archival Collections in ARL Libraries

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007) De Stefano, Paula ; Walters, Tyler O.

In-house collaboration between the archives and preservation departments of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries is not well established. This article presents data from a survey of special collections repositories in ARL member libraries, conducted in 1995 and repeated in 2006, that document the low levels of collaboration. The authors probe the history and development of preservation efforts in archives and in libraries and make a case for further examination of how the expertise and resources of archives and preservation departments can be shared in managing the preservation of archival materials.
Reference and Instruction Programs Go Virtual as a Form of Outreach: Case Studies from Academic Libraries

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-08) Walters, Tyler O. ; Williams, Clara R.

Academic, special, and public libraries cater to a customer base that is no longer defined by location. Users of information are global clients who are continuously connected to resources and are not restricted to access in any physical facility. Outreach has been defined as bringing services out to where they are needed and can be traced to public libraries, where library branches and bookmobiles served the information needs of the communities. Academic outreach is a relatively new phenomenon designed to reach patrons outside the library, whether in student dormitories or faculty offices. To serve the needs of their resident and global information customers, Haselton Library and Knowledge Center developed an information literacy program, customized web portals and real-time, online reference services.
Special Collections Repositories at Association of Research Libraries Institutions: A Study of Current Practices in Preservation Management

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998) Walters, Tyler O. ; Hanthorn, Ivan E.

This article reports and interprets data collected from a 1995 survey of special collections repositories at Association of Research Libraries institutions. It covers part one of the survey— current practices in preservation management. One hundred thirteen institutions represented by 170 archives/manuscripts repositories were asked to participate, of which 143 institutions, or 84.1%, did so. This is the second largest sample of archives' preservation activities ever gathered in the United States. The goals of the study were, first, to create a base of data on the development of archival preservation programs in research institutions and interpret that data and, second, to understand the extent to which the archives and library preservation departments interact in their common mission to ensure the availability of research materials to present and future generations. The study is unique in its investigation of the interrelationships between the archival repository's and the library's operational functions. This article recognizes that there is potential for a certain amount of preservation program development and integration between libraries and archives.
Automated access practices at archival repositories of Association of Research Libraries institutions

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998) Walters, Tyler O.

This article reports and interprets the data collected from the author's 1995 survey of 142 archives and manuscripts repositories at Association of Research Libraries institutions and their automated access practices. The goals of the study are, first, analyzing the data gathered to understand the development of archives' automated access programs and, second, understanding the extent to which libraries' cataloging and automated systems units interact with their institutions' archival repositories in their common mission of creating and maintaining intellectual access to research materials. These interactions are analyzed in areas such as automated applications development and maintenance, use of specific automated access tools, overall responsibility for program planning, and the provision of training.
Archival Film Preservation at the Iowa State University Library

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997) Walters, Tyler O.

The Iowa State University [ISU] Library Special Collections Department has over twenty years of experience in managing collections of 16mm moving image film. The department’s American Archives of the Factual Film [AAFF] was founded in 1974 as a center for preserving films and is comprised of 25,000 16 mm films. Preserving so many films can be a daunting task, especially when budgetary constraints are considered. We have studied the problems and have devised holdings maintenance procedures to extend the life of our archival films collections. Cellulose triacetate, or "safety film", is as inherently unstable as the nitrate-based film it replaced. Acetate-based film collections deteriorate and the images they hold disappear. Acetate films are afflicted with acetic acid degradation, or "vinegar syndrome," so nicknamed due to acetic acid’s strong vinegar-like odor. ISU employs film testing, cleaning and treating techniques coupled with proper environmental conditions that have greatly extended film life expectancy.
Contemporary Archival Appraisal Methods and Preservation Decision-Making

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996) Walters, Tyler O.

Archival administrators are beginning the search for administrative tools that rationalize difficult preservation priority decision-making processes. Some are suggesting that the new appraisal literature be evaluated for its application to preservation selection. This article reviews the literature covering archival appraisal's role in the process of selection for preservation in archives, and addresses recent efforts to create archival preservation assessment and selection tools. It also provides overviews of some modern appraisal models which are intended for collections and preservation archivists who are working with selection-for-preservation issues. The author suggests that archivists need to concern themselves less with implementing preservation selection tools. They must concentrate first on understanding the values that make archival records significant, and then rationalize their preservation selection decision-making processes. Then, and only then, should the decisions' hierarchy and flow be incorporated into a preservation assessment and selection tool that is adaptable to individual archival institutions, yet consistent enough to yield comparable data.
Breaking New Ground in Fostering Preservation: The Society of American Archivists' Preservation Management Training Program

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995-10) Walters, Tyler O.

In 1991 the Society of American Archivist (SAA) received a $600,609 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access to launch the SAA Preservation Management Training Program (PMTP). This is the largest grant the NEH has awarded to professional association for continuing education programming. The PMTP was a three-year nationwide program in which forty-four archival administrators were trained in establishing and maintaining comprehensive archival preservation management programs. The program’s pioneering aspects are significant to the future of preservation education and training. The curriculum advocates integrating preservation administration into all facets of the management of archives. Moving archival preservation away from ad hoc decisions to well-planned management strategies is the program’s underlying philosophy. The training assignments are also designed to build elements of a functioning, tailor-made archival preservation program for the student’s employing institution prior to graduation. The SAA Preservation Management Training Program is unique in professional education and training for library and archives management, and has created a benchmark for future training programs in both fields.
Rediscovering the Theoretical Base of Records Management and Its Implications for Graduate Education: Searching for the New School of Information Studies

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995) Walters, Tyler O.

In the Fall 1992 issue of JELIS, Eugenia K. Brumm published a brief description of the graduate records management education program at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Brumm attempts to demonstrate to library educators that they should support graduate records management education because it has a theoretical base that is shared with library science. While Brumm's goal is desirable, this article sets out to show that linking records management theory with the broader discipline of information science and its information resource management perspectives is a more fruitful and accurate approach. It will further show that the critical link between archives and records theory is central to records management education, while library science theory is only tangential to it. The author calls for two changes: (1) that information professionals and educators broaden their awareness beyond the library profession to include other information professions and their disciplinary knowledge and theoretical bases and (2) the evolution of "new schools of information studies" will respect the need for independent degrees based on the distinct disciplinary knowledge that defines and supports each information profession. He strongly endorses the development of graduate degree programs for the nonbibliographic information professions in the United States.