Déirdre Joyce, Laurel McPhee, Rita Johnston, Julia Corrin, and Rebecca Hirsch “ , I’m following up on a suggestion from Carly Dearborn, our Ohio Public Policy Archivist, and have read “ Toward a Conceptual Framework for Technical Debt in Archives Spring/Summer 2022 issue. The article by Déirdre Joyce, Laurel McPhee, Rita Johnston, Julia Corrin and Rebecca Hirsch explores applying a framework based upon the concept of “technical debt” to inform decision-making in archives and libraries, in the management of their digital collections, objects and systems. Vol. 85, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2022 ..read more

The DPC notes that, “The advice within this resource is intended to be broad enough to be applicable to any type or size of organization…whether they are a national archive, a business archive or a local record office and whether they are responsible for preserving records from a wide range of external sources or their own internal record keeping system/s.” As such I recommend this as a must read for those that lead the records management efforts within an organization, and/or those responsible for collecting and preserving records. Further, I would strongly encourage all organization personne ..read more

©2022 by Mike Casey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA 4.0) Mr. Casey finishes up with four additional principles that are more narrowly focused on the digitization of media ..read more

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Although, dry at times, it is well interspersed with reproductions of equipment catalog and marketing material images, and is generally engaging. I give it 3 of 5 stars and a recommended reading. by Craig Robertson © 2021 ( The move from an “old-style storehouse model” to a modern flat-top desk foregrounded a change in the mode of storage—from personal to collective—as papers would ideally be moved from desks into filing cabinets.” I wonder what this has to say in our digital age about how we store and share our digital documents? Have we moved back from the collective to the personal? Food fo ..read more

There are too many insights to quote here, and I encourage folks to read the report for oneself; however the following are a handful that particularly resonated with me: Aligning the Research Library to Organizational Strategy common strategic directions and key trends in research practice and support, [they] proposed a menu of strategic directions from which research libraries may wish to choose ..read more

….and above all when we collaborate with our University Libraries colleagues, “…Follow the rules of civil human behavior: never lose your temper or become impatient” Demystifying IT: A Framework for Shared Understanding between Archivists and IT Professionals ) that had been languishing on my “To Read” list. [emphasis added], and how finding the right balance within those limits may offer the best chance of achieving an optimal technology solution ..read more

It traces a history of collection development and appraisal in context of both general and special collections, and posits 6 criteria to consider in the appraisal process for the collecting of digital materials: Approaching Appraisal: Guidelines and Criteria to Select for Digital Preservation ). It is based upon their presentation at the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres) 2018. (additional related materials can be found at ..read more

It is a series of 10 essays split into 3 parts with an introduction and follow-up by the editor. I have is an e-book available from The Ohio State University Libraries ( my three favorite essays that I feel also deliver the most useful information. ) for students, staff, faculty and alumni ..read more

“Integration is the use of processes or tools to join systems to work together as a coordinated whole, which provides a “functional coupling” between systems ..read more