New Case Study: Digital Preservation Strategies for a Small Private College
The following case study was published as part of the SAA (Society of American Archivists) Campus Case Studies (Case 16) series.
Title
Digital Preservation Strategies for a Small Private College
Author
Meg Miner
Illinois Wesleyan University
Source
SAA Campus Case Studies (Case 16)
via Author’s Repository (bepress)*
May 2015
Abstract
Well established “best practices” in digital preservation (DP) do little to address day-to-day realities in repositories that cannot dedicate funds or staff to DP workflows. What can a Lone Arranger do to ensure good stewardship for born digital and digitized institutional records before a complete preservation system is in place?
Direct to Full Text Case Study (14 pages; PDF)
* This and other case studies in the “Case Studies on Campus” series are available online (free) on the Society of American Archivists web site.
Filed under: Digital Preservation, Open Access, Preservation, Public Libraries
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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