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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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The Changing Nature of Reference & Information Services: Predictions and Realities

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999) Frank, Donald G. ; Calhoun, Katharine L. ; Henson, Bruce ; Madden, M. Leslie ; Raschke, Gregory K.
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.
Thinking About Archival Preservation in the '90s and Beyond: Some Recent Publications and Their Implications for Archivists

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

A profusion of new preservation literature has rapidly developed from current research, technological experimentation and pilot projects, task forces, and conferences. The drive to disseminate new approaches in preservation management to practicing collections managers has also contributed to this new base of literature. This essay introduces recent advances in preservation administration and their implications for archival practice, through an examination of the preservation-related publications released in the last few years. It also confirms a growing interest among archivists in preservation ideas from other information management fields, particularly in the areas of selection for preservation, standard preservation assessment methods, preservation of electronic media, the use of digital technology in preservation reformatting, and specialized media preservation.
Adapting Library Bibliographic Utilities and Local System Software for Use in Archival Information Systems --the Case Of NOTIS 5.0

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994) Walters, Tyler O.

The USMARC AMC format was developed for the control of archives and manuscripts. It is designed to organize and provide access to both bibliographic and internal collection management information. Today's USMARC AMC-supporting library bibliographic utilities and local system software focus on bibliographic aspects while support for managing internal administrative information is sorely underdeveloped. This article looks at the development of the NOTIS system as an example of one major AMC-supporting bibliographic system along with the functional requirements of archival information systems and general considerations when employing library utilities and software in archival management.
Creating a Front Door to Archival Knowledge in the United States: Guidelines for a Master of Archival Studies Degree

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993) Walters, Tyler O.

The author explores the need for the Master of Archival Studies (M.A.S.) degree in the United States and its expression through the Society of American Archivists' Guidelines for the Development of a Curriculum for a Master of Archival Studies. He contends that the substantial and distinct body of archival knowledge, coupled with the emergence of new information technologies that have changed the way archives are created, maintained, and used, make an autonomous two-year degree curriculum necessary. The article examines SAA's history in educational guidelines development, the Canadian experience with educational guidelines and twelve years of M.A.S. degree programs, the growth of U.S. graduate archival education during the 1980s, and major features of the 1993 draft M.A.S. guidelines.