Case Studies from Trends in Archives Practice

These case studies are from the various modules in the series TRENDS IN ARCHIVES PRACTICE and address descriptive standards, appraisal and acquisition, digital preservation, primary sources, digital rights, and archival arrangement and description.

The case studies are available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License.  

Engagement in the Digital Era

MODULE 23: ESTABLISHING ARCHIVAL CONNECTIONS THROUGH ONLINE ENGAGEMENT

• "Case Study: Changing Social Media Platforms and the Archives: Reaching Out to Our College Members"
  by Noraleen A. Young, Lauren M. Palmer
• "Case Study: Seeing Glass in a New Light on Wikipedia"
  by Rebecca Hopman
• "Case Study: Testing Facebook Live at the University of Iowa Special Collections"
  by Colleen Theisen

MODULE 22: ENGAGING USERS WITH ARCHIVES: PROGRAMS THAT GET RESULTS 

• "Case Study: Programming to Build Connections and Collections"
  by Michele Casto
• “Case Study: 'Yarn Bombing' to Cultivate an Archival Garden"
  by Jessica Lacher-Feldman

MODULE 21: LIGHTS, CAMERA, ARCHIVES! 

• "Case Study: JFK and Mad Men"
  by Laurie Austin, Daniel J. Linke, Travis H. Williams 
• "Case Study: Lincoln University and International Copyright"
  by Susan Gunn Pevar, Daniel J. Linke, Travis H. Williams
• "Case Study: Lessons from the Barnes Foundation Archives"
  by Katy Rawdon
• "Case Study: Titanic and the Independence Seaport Museum"  
  by Megan Good Carrington, Daniel J. Linke, Travis H. Williams 
• "Case Study: 'The Special Collections Equivalent of a Stampede at a Rock Concert'” 
  by Daniel J. Linke
• "Case Study: The Hospitality Archives and Hilton Collection Work with AMC’s Mad Men"
  by Mark E. Young

Putting Descriptive Standards to Work

MODULE 20: SHARING ARCHIVAL METADATA

• "Case Study: Implementing Schema.org at Rockefeller Archive Center"
  by Hillel Arnold
• "Case Study: The Digital Public Library of America's Application Programming Interface and Metadata Ingestion Process"
  by Mark A. Matienzo

MODULE 19: INTRODUCING EAC-CPF

• "Case Study: Incrementally Implementing EAD-CPF at the University of Illinois Archives"
  by Christopher J. Prom

MODULE 18: USING EAD3

• "EAD Case Study: University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)"
  by Lindsey Loeper
• "EAD Case Study: Congregational Library & Archives"
  Cristina Prochilo
• "EAD Case Study: Archives Hub"
  by Jane Stevenson

Appraisal and Acquisition Strategies

MODULE 16: ACCESSIONING DIGITAL ARCHIVES

• "Case Study 1: Leveling Up Procedures: Results of Accessioning Records from Sudan Mediations"
  by Erin Faulder
• "Case Study 2: Accessioning in a Time Crunch: Developing Accessioning Procedures during a State Government Transition" 
  by Veronica Martzahl
• "Case Study 3: Real-World Accessioning Is Messy"
  by Max Eckard

MODULE 15: COLLECTING DIGITAL MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES

• "Case Study 1: Working with a Creator to Select and Transfer Email"
  by Megan Barnard and Gabriel Redwine
• "Case Study 2: Interview with Marcel Caya, Regional Director and Appraiser for the Canadian National Archival Appraisal Board (NAAB)" 
  by Megan Barnard and Gabriel Redwine
• "Case Study 3: Stanford University Archives"
  by Josh Schneider and Daniel Hartwig

MODULE 14: APPRAISING DIGITAL RECORDS

• "Case Study 1: Appraising One State Government’s Websites"
  by Geof Huth
• "Case Study 2: Imaginative Digital Appraisal in a Small Institution" 
  by Geof Huth

Digital Preservation Essentials

MODULE 13: DIGITAL PRESERVATION STORAGE

• Case Study: Three Approaches to Digital Preservation Storage
  by Erin O'Meara and Kate Stratton

MODULE 12: PRESERVING DIGITAL OBJECTS

• "Case Study 1: Rockefeller Archive Center"
  by Sibyl Schaefer
• "Case Study 2: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill" 
  by Jill Sexton, Meg Tuomala, Gregory Jansen

Becoming a Trusted Digital Repository

MODULE 8: BECOMING A TRUSTED DIGITAL REPOSITORY

• "Case Study: University Archives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"
  by Bethany Anderson

Rights in the Digital Era

MODULE 7: MANAGING RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS

• "Case Study: The Jon Cohen AIDS Research Digitization Project"
  by Aprille C. McKay

MODULE 6: BALANCING ACCESS AND PRIVACY IN THE RECORDS OF ORGANIZATIONS

• "Case Study: Developing an Access Policy for a Rehabilitation Student Case File"
  by Melissa Salrin

MODULE 4: UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT LAW

• "Case Study: UCLA Library Special Collections"
  by Heather Briston

Archival Arrangement and Description

MODULE 3: DESIGNING DESCRIPTIVE AND ACCESS SYSTEMS

• "Case Study: Princeton University Archives"
  by Daniel A. Santamaria
• "Case Study: Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study"
  by Christine Di Bella

MODULE 2: PROCESSING DIGITAL RECORDS AND MANUSCRIPTS

• "Case Study: Duke University: David M. Rubinstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library"
  by Seth Shaw
• "Case Study: righam Young University Archives: Sydney B. Sperry Photographs"
  by J. Gordon Daines III

MODULE 1: STANDARDS FOR ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION

• "Case Study: Summary of the UCSD DAMS System"
  by Bradley Westbrook
• "Case Study: What We Learned at ECU Experimenting with EAC"
  by Mark Custer