Projects

In the spring of 2007, I worked on a project to process the digital files of Sir Arnold Wesker (1932- ), a British playwright. This work was done at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT Austin. The purpose was to migrate Sir Wesker's electronic files to stable media for preservation and access purposes. Other aspects of the project included decision-making for the relevant metadata that should be collected, how to batch process thousands of files, and the balancing of privacy agreements with preservation. The resulting online collection can be viewed here.

During the summer of 2008, I updated the bibliography for Promoting Preservation Awareness in Libraries (1997) by Jeanne M. Drewes and Julie A. Page. This book is a popular handbook that addresses the preservation needs of academic, public, and school libraries. The revised annotated bibliography includes numerous text, online, and A/V resources from 1997 to 2008 that can assist those in the library and archives community in advocating preservation to their staff and patrons. It can be viewed here.

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