[snca-list] colleges and universities - electronic records archiving

[Riggins, Adina L.]

*Please excuse cross-postings*

Hello colleagues:

As the University Archivist at UNCW, I am in the very early stage of exploring electronic records management and archiving.  I would welcome information about your experiences.  Because I am also looking at institutional repositories that typically specialize scholarly information, I particularly seek responses from university and college archivists (especially those who work in the UNC system).  However, if you don't work in a university archives but have expertise and/or interest in electronic records and want to reply, I would be most grateful.

At UNCW, I recognize the need for a digital archive that could include UNCW departmental newsletters, the UNCW Magazine, faculty committee reports, university catalogs, and other administrative and historical information.

My questions are:

1.       What has your institution pursued with regard to preserving and providing access to university-related information that is not purely scholarly or research-based? Please let me know a bit about your electronic records practices and policy (what type of content do you collect, and what software do you use for the database), and a URL, if available.

2.       How does your current or planned digital archive of administrative/historical/university information relate to your current or planned institutional repository of scholarly information? Same platform? Same database? Cross-searchable? Run by different departments altogether?  Please share!

Thank you very much for your help and take care.


Adina L. Riggins
UNCW Archivist
Randall Library, UNCW
601 S. College Rd.
Wilmington, NC 28403-5616
rigginsa_at_UNCW_dot_edu
Tel: 910-962-4233

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