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Born-Digital Blog Post #6: Accessioning Workflow part 1

30 July 2018 lawhorn In Practice

This post continues the series, “Behind the Scenes at Houghton”, giving a glimpse into the inner workings of the library’s mission to support teaching and research. Thanks to Magdaline Lawhorn, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Resident & Project Archivist, for contributing this post. Library and information professionals love developing workflows! Workflows make our Read More

Born-Digital Blog Post #5 : Analyzing Results of the Survey

1 June 2018 2 responses lawhorn In Practice

This post continues the series, “Behind the Scenes at Houghton”, giving a glimpse into the inner workings of the library’s mission to support teaching and research. Thanks to Magdaline Lawhorn, Administrative Fellow & Project Archivist, for contributing this post. So far in this series, I have discussed Houghton’s first steps in the born-digital initiative, the Read More

Born-Digital Blog Post #4: Digital Forensic Workstation

3 May 2018 2 responses lawhorn In Practice

This post continues the series, “Behind the Scenes at Houghton”, giving a glimpse into the inner workings of the library’s mission to support teaching and research. Thanks to Magdaline Lawhorn, Administrative Fellow & Project Archivist, for contributing this post. A functional workstation is pivotal to every archivist’s work, especially when dealing with the born-digital environment Read More

Born-Digital Post #3: Space

5 April 2018 ameze In Practice

This post continues the series, “Behind the Scenes at Houghton”, giving a glimpse into the inner workings of the library’s mission to support teaching and research. Thanks to Magdaline Lawhorn, Administrative Fellow & Project Archivist, for contributing this post. Our born-digital journey continues to be filled with research, trial and error, and lots of excel Read More

Born-Digital Blog Post #2: Generating the Report

1 March 2018 ameze In Practice

This post continues the series, “Behind the Scenes at Houghton”, giving a glimpse into the inner workings of the library’s mission to support teaching and research. Thanks to Magdaline Lawhorn Administrative Fellow & Project Archivist, for contributing this post.  Houghton’s born-digital survey journey continues to the next stage, beginning with the procurement and analysis of Read More

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