Session 203: Getting Our Hands Dirty (and Liking It): Case Studies in Archiving Digital Manuscripts

Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Session Description from SAA Site

Speakers and Presentation Titles:
Catherine Stollar Peters, (Chair), Archives and Records Management Specialist, New York State Archives and Records Administration - "Theoretical Foundations of Archiving Digital Manuscripts"

Melissa Watterworth, Curator of Literary and Natural History Collection, University of Connecticut - "Expression, Experimentation, Evolution: Studies in Appraisal and Transfer of Electronic Records in the Papers of Writer and Small Press Publisher Peter Ganick"

Gabriela Redwine, University of Texas at Austin - "An Acquisitions Narrative: The Practical and Theoretical Challenges Presented by Norman Mailer’s Electronic Records"

Michael L. Forstrom, Yale University - "Between Half-Measures and Ideals: Managing Electronic Records in Manuscript Collections at the Beinecke Library"

Comments, Discussions and Further Information:
SAA2008: Preservation and Experimentation with Analog/Digital Hybrid Literary Collections (Session 203) -- Spellbound Blog