Covid-19 Contingencies: Disaster Management in Small Academic Archives

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  • September 15, 2021
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  • Jacob W. MacDonnell
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • COVID-19 dramatically changed American work environments, including positions in academic archives. This research explores the impact of COVID-19 on small academic archives and the effectiveness of disaster management plans and scholarship in mitigating damages and fallout. Thus, the research questions are as follows: What disaster management strategies have small academic archives employed in response to COVID- 19, and what implications do these responses have for future archival disaster management strategies? This study employs a qualitative thematic analysis of interview responses from liberal arts college archivists and special collections librarians selected from the Oberlin Group of Libraries on their COVID-19 responses. Data gathered from surveys and interviews were analyzed and compiled to evaluate key themes. This research may serve as a starting point for a fuller exploration of disaster management strategies in the wake of COVID-19, not only at archival collections of small liberal arts colleges, but also at similarly sized cultural heritage institutions.
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  • Helen Tibbo
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • Master of Science in Library Science
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  • 2021
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