Knowing What We Have: Proposing a Sustainable Workflow for the Assessment of Digitized Archival Collections at Wilson Library

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  • April 25, 2022
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  • Blount, Kaylin
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • The purpose of this paper was to develop a sustainable assessment workflow that could determine if existing digitized archival collections materials in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library accurately reflect the current digitization goals of Wilson Special Collections, the broader goals of the UNC Libraries, and the goals outlined by the UNC Libraries’ Reckoning Initiative. To do this, a pilot assessment of four digitized archival collections at Wilson Library was conducted to determine: (1) what types of materials have been digitized, (2) what those materials are about, and (3) who created and/or is depicted in those materials. Descriptive metadata records of digitized archival materials were enhanced and analyzed. The results of this research provide a workflow that can be used to undertake a full-scale assessment and an example of the types of findings and visualizations that a larger assessment could produce.
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  • Feinberg, Melanie
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • Master of Science in Information Science
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  • Library and Information Science
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  • 2022
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