Organizing and Administering a University Archives

Discovering and Visualizing Self-Organizing Communities within Email Archives

With the advent of the Internet, use of electronic mail (email) for both personal comm unication and professional collaboration has continually increased. The use of email for communication will soon far exceed the use of the conventional mail, if it does not already. Email naturally lends itself to being archived because it is stored as a digital medium and as a result, many people have amasse...

Digital Archives at the University of Pisa

At the end of the '90s, the Library System Centre of the University of Pisa began to create a system of digital archives in order to enhance and promote the Institution activities regarding teaching, research and administration: 1. ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertations); 2. UnipiEprints.

College and University Archives: Readings in Theory and Practice

Optimum Access? Processing in College and University Archives

Optimum Access? Processing in College and University Archives Christopher J. Prom Processing is defined as “the arrangement, description, and housing of archival materials for storage and use by patrons.” It is at the heart of archival work. The steps that an archivist takes or fails to take will either facilitate or impede physical and intellectual control over the entirety of a repository’s c...

A Unique Arrangement: Organizing Collections for Digital Libraries, Archives, and Repositories

Digital libraries increasingly host collections that are archival in nature, and contain digitized and born-digital materials. In order to preserve the evidentiary value of these materials, the collection organization must capture the general context and preserve the relationships among objects. Archival processing is a well-established method for organizing collections this way. However, the c...