This week was very busy. I completed two online reference requests; attended the second session of the LOC digital preservation webinar; continued to create metadata for digital projects by using Dublin Core metadata standards; and continued to process the fourth series of O’Neal’s papers. The fourth series begins with the arrangement of O’Neal’s personal correspondence. The files in this series comprise of O’Neal’s personal correspondence and other related materials, which is the largest series in the collection. Arranged chronologically, the array of material include letters which document O’Neal’s involvement as an active college student at Southern Illinois University; communications about The Free Southern Theater; correspondence regarding raising money for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (1963); professional reference communications; personal mail from family members; and personal greeting cards. The bulk of the correspondence ranges from 1960-1969.
During the Storing and Protecting Content webinar, the presenter asked two important questions to consider: 1) What issues are there for long-term storage? And 2) What steps are needed to protect your digital content? Things to consider are which files to store and the accompanying metadata, enabling long-term preservation and how you should store it, including storage media and repository selection of files. Lastly, when storing and protecting content, one must consider protecting content from loss or evolving technology. Thus, protecting digital content is a continuous process.
Next week is Mardi Gras, so it’s a short but busy week, including the first of two archival learning sessions with undergraduate history students at Tulane University.
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