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OCLC Research Reports
Research & Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections
Taking Stock and Making Hay: Archival Collections Assessment

PACSCL survey documentation

Identifying and Dating Archival Audiovisual Formats
The University of Illinois, Preservation Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) Collection ID Guide: comprehensive, illustrated
The Museum of Obsolete Media: information about rare formats
Texas Commission on the Arts, Video Identification and Assessment Guide: includes videotape formats introduced between 1956 and 1999
Video Preservation Website, Video Format Identification Guide: videotape formats introduced between 1956 and 1995
National Archives, Archival Formats manual: identifying video
Indiana University, “Format Characteristics” manual for audio recordings: comprehensive document on archival sound recordings with more details than the PSAP guide.
National Archives, Archival Formats manual: identifying audio
National Archives, Archival Formats manual: identifying motion picture film
Little Film.org: visual aids and dates for small-gauge film (8-16mm)
Film Forever, Edge Codes Table: film can be dated by looking for edge codes (usually plus signs, circles, squares, and triangles at the edge of the film) that correspond to the date of manufacture

Presenters

Weatherly Stephan, Head, Archival Collections Management, New York University Libraries
Kimberly Tarr, Head, Media Preservation Unit, New York University Libraries
Shannon O’Neill, Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections, New York University Libraries

Description

In 2017, New York University Libraries began a three-year project to survey the archival holdings of NYU Special Collections’ repositories in preparation for a major renovation and reorganization. In this webinar, an archivist, a preservationist, and a curator will share the results of the project, completed in January 2020, discussing what was learned about past practices and how assessment data can inform future collection development decisions, collection management activities, and preservation priorities.

This webinar will be of interest to archivists, curators, preservation professionals, collection managers interested in assessment and holistic approaches to archival work, and administrators with responsibility for archives and special collections programs.

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!