Making Institutional Archives Discoverable: Communicating a Library Project's Value, Part 1.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Michalak, Russell, ; Rysavy, Monica D. T.
- Source
- Journal of Library Administration; Oct2022, Vol. 62 Issue 7, p946-956, 11p, 3 Color Photographs, 3 Charts
- Subject
- Archives
Communities
Digital asset management
Eyewitness accounts
Columns
- Language
- ISSN
- 01930826
How librarians and archivists communicate the value of a major project, like making institutional archives discoverable online, to all community stakeholders can be challenging when they are not receptive to the change or don't see the project'sproposed value. This column is a first-hand account of the challenges associated with communicating the results of a lengthy and complicated project that has high perceived value by librarians and archivists to community stakeholders with minimal understanding of a this project's limitations and scope. In this column, we will summarize lessons learned from an 11-month-long archival digitization and discoverability project that saved institutional artifacts from further decay. The project frustrated stakeholders who couldn't search for most of the digitized artifacts due to the lack of metadata which prevented easy searching and locating items they were looking for. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]