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Slides (pptx file)
OCLC Research - Stewarding Audiovisual Materials
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Harry, Benjamin (2020) "Finding AV Needles in Manuscript Haystacks: Conducting an Audiovisual Assessment/Audit in Manuscript Archives," Journal of Western Archives: Vol. 11 : Iss. 1 , Article 5.

Presenters

Ben Harry, Curator of Audiovisual Materials and Media Arts History, Brigham Young University

Description

Audiovisual materials exist in just about every library and repository, yet many struggle with determining first steps to address the needs of AV collections. These materials require immediate action, but it is so easy to hesitate, especially when unsure of the technical specifics of your holdings. In this webinar, we will walk through the AV audit/assessment conducted in the BYU manuscript special collections, in which we tried to apply More Product, Less Process approaches to achieve maximum efficiency without sacrificing the most important data. Join us for a step-by-step overview of how we tried to make careful decisions as quickly as possible, while always keeping in mind the end goals of digital preservation and increased accessibility.

This webinar will be of interest to any librarians and archivists who have AV items in their collections.

Works in Progress: An OCLC Research Occasional Webinar Series

Live webinar sessions are exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, but the recordings are publicly available to all.

Works in Progress: An OCLC Research Occasional Webinar Series to talk about work happening in OCLC Research – we'd like to present our work informally and get feedback from you, our Partners. We'd also like this to be a venue for Partner institutions. What are you working on that everyone should know about? What input would help you move forward? Let us know!