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Managing Electronic Records and Assets: a Bibliography

1.   Digital Collections
2.   Digital Audio and Video
3.   Digital Images
4.   Digital Texts
5.   Electronic Records
6.   Electronic "Manuscript Collections"
7.   Institutional Repositories
8.   Copyright
9.   Information Literacy
10.  Databases and Programming

Please send feedback, suggestions, and additions to the SAA Technology Best Practices Task Force at techbp-tf [at] forums [dot] archivists [dot] org

Managing Electronic Records and Assets: A Working Bibliography

6. Electronic “Manuscript Collections”

  • Selected Best Practices, Guidelines, and Handbooks
  • Selected Articles, Books and Reports

Selected Best Practices, Guidelines, and Handbooks

Paradigm, “Workbook on Digital Private Papers,” http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/workbook/index.html
"This workbook is an evolving resource based on an exemplar project underway at the academic research libraries of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. Between January 2005 and February 2007, the Paradigm project will explore the issues involved in the long term preservation of digital private papers by using the papers of today's politicians as a testbed."

Selected Articles, Books and Reports

Arms, Caroline R., “Keeping Memory Alive: Practices for Preserving Digital Content at the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress,” RLG DigiNews, Vol. 4, No. 3 (June 15, 2000)
http://www.rlg.org/legacy/preserv/diginews/diginews4-3.html#feature1

Beagrie, Neil, “Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections,” D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 6 (2005)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/beagrie/06beagrie.html

Bentley Library, University of Michigan, “Case 1: Accessing, processing, and making available a born-digital personal records collection,” version October 25, 2006
www.bentley.umich.edu/bhl/practicum/2007/1_30/case1.pdf

Botticelli, P., “Records Appraisal in Network Organizations,” Archivaria 49 (200), 161-91.

Cook, Terry, “Byte-Ing Off What You Can Chew: Electronic Records Strategies for Small Archival Institutions,” Archifacts (2004): 1-20.
http://www.aranz.org.nz/Site/publications/papers_online/terry_cook_paper.aspx

Cook, Terry, “Who Will Do It if We Don’t?: The Cultural Mission of Archives vis-à-vis Electronic Records,” paper presented at the 1997 Society of American Archivists Conference

Cunningham, Adrian, ‘The Archival Management of Personal Records in Electronic Form: Some Suggestions’, Archives and Manuscripts 22:94-105 (May 1994).

Cunningham, Adrian, “Journey to the end of the night: custody and the dawning of a new era on the archival threshold,” Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1996): 312-321

Cunningham, Adrian, “Waiting for the Ghost Train: Strategies for Managing Personal Electronic Records before It Is Too Late,” Archival Issues, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1999): 55-64.
http://www.mybestdocs.com/cunningham-waiting2.htm (This link is to a pre-publication version of a paper that was delivered 1999 Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting . It was subsequently published, with minor editorial revisions, in Archival Issues.)

Electronic Information Resources and Historians: European Perspectives, ed. by Ross, S., and Higgs, E., St. Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1993

Esteva, Maria and Sue Soy, “DSpace, CyberCemeteries and Other Active Sites for Community Networking Records,” School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, 2003 [PowerPoint presentation]
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~ssoy/pubs/cnpanel7thannual.ppt#256,1,

Gilliland-Swetland, Anne, “Digital Communications: Documentary Opportunities Not to Be Missed,” Archival Issues, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1995): 39-50

Harris, Verne, “On the Back of a Tiger: Deconstructive Possibilities in 'Evidence of Me,'” Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 29, No. 1 (2001): 8-21

Hedstrom, Margaret, “How do archivists make electronic archives usable and accessible?’ Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 26, No. 1 (May 1998): 6-22

Henry, Linda, “Schellenberg in Cyberspace,” American Archivist, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 1998): 309-327

Hodge, Gail M., “Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach,” D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 6 (January 2006)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01hodge.html

Hyry, Tom, and Rachel Onuf, “The Personality of Electronic Records: The Impact of new Information Technology on Personal Papers,” Archival Issues, Vol. 22 (1997): 37-44

Lukesh, Susan S., “E-Mail and Potential Loss to Future Archives and Scholarship or the Dog That Didn't Bark,” First Monday, Vol. 4, No. 9 (1999)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_9/lukesh/index.html

Lyman, Peter and Brewster Kahle, “Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts: Organizing an Agenda for Action,” D-Lib Magazine, (July-August 1998)
www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07lyman.html.

McKemmish, Sue, ‘Evidence of me ….’, Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 45, (August 1996): 174-87
http://www.mybestdocs.com/mckemmish-s-evidofme-ch10.htm (This site reprints the article with the permission of the author and publisher.)

Michael L. Miller, “Assessing the Need: What Information and Activities Should We Preserve?” Documenting the Digital Age symposium, 1997.

Montaña, John C. “Who Owns Business Data on Personally Owned Computers?” Information Management Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2005): 36-40, 42

O’Sullivan, Catherine. “Diaries, Online Diaries and the Future Loss to Archives; or, Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers Who Blog Them.” American Archivist, Vol. 68, No. 1 (2005).

Onopko, Helen, “Evolving access solutions - repatriation of records to indigenous communities,” presented at the Records Management Association of Australia (RMAA) 2002 National Convention, September 17, 2002.

Paquet, Lucie, “Appraisal, Acquisition and Control of Personal Electronic Records: From Myth to Reality,” Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 28, No. 2 (November 2000): 71-91.

Taylor, Karyn, “From Paper to Cyberspace: Changing Communication Technologies and the Implications for Personal Records Archivists,” MA Thesis, University of Manitoba, 2002.

Underwood, William E., “The Presidential Electronic Records Pilot System: Results of Laboratory Experiments and Use by Archivists,” Georgia Tech Research Institute, 2003.
http://perpos.gtri.gatech.edu/perpos/publications/TR2003-01.pdf

Upward, Frank, and Sue McKemmish, “In Search of the Lost Tiger, by Way of Sainte-Beuve: Re-constructing the Possibilities in ‘Evidence of Me…’,” Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 29, No. 1 (2001)
http://www.mybestdocs.com/mckemmish-s-upward-f-ontiger-w.htm (This site reprints the article with the permission of the author and publisher.)

Young, Jeanne, “Electronic Records Management on a Shoestring: Three Case Studies,” Information Management Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2005): 58-60.

Zanish-Belcher, Tanya, M. Christian, and C. Daly, "The age of the electronic document: the documenting challenge for academic archives," Collection Management, Vol. 26, No. 2, (2001): 43-56

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