Appraisal and acquisition : innovative practices for archives and special collections / edited by Kate Theimer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Theimer, Kate, 1966- editor.

Series:

Innovative practices for archives and special collections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appraisal of archival materials.

Archives--Acquisitions.

Archives.

Libraries--Special collections.

Libraries.

Physical Description:

xii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Contents:

"No fame required": collaboration, community, and the Georgia LGBTQ Archives Project / Morna Gerrard, Georgia State University

Placed out: providing a home for the records of the Children's Aid Society and the orphan trains / Maurita Baldock, New-York Historical Society

"I really can't wait to archive this exchange": exploring processing as appraisal in the Tim Kaine eMail Project / Benjamin S. Bromley, Roger Christman, and Susan Gray Eakin Page, Library of Virginia

Hardware for softpoems: appraisal and acquisition of vintage computer equipment / Will Hansen and Matthew Farrell, Duke University

From projects to policy: the evolution of a systematic reappraisal program / Tina Lloyd, Library and Archives Canada

Terabytes from far-off lands: acquiring records of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program / Jane Gorjevsky and Dina Sokolova, Columbia University

So much to do, so little time: prioritizing to acquire significant university records / Laura Uglean Jackson, University of Wyoming

The Studio Theatre Archives: staging an embedded appraisal / Leahkim A. Gannett, Vincent J. Novara, Kelly J. Smith, and Mary Crauderueff, University of Maryland

Making the bulb want to change: implementing an active electronic records appraisal and acquisition program / Brad Houston, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Weaving the web of influence: maximizing archival appraisal and acquisition through the use of "spider advocates" / Shelley Sweeney, University of Manitoba

Reappraisal and deaccessioning: building for the future by removing some of the past / James Gerencser, Dickinson College

Tap into history: the birth of the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives / Tiah Edmunson-Morton, Oregon State University.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442249530

1442249536

9781442238541

1442238542

OCLC:

898158340