Thank you for the warm welcome #mac24. While I could only stay one day, it will inspire and sustain me for quite some time. Especially meeting up with grad school colleagues. ❤️

Audience question inspires a conversation on whether to locate the content warning in the digital library on the bottom, which is typical, or at the top before seeing the object which gives a chance not to look. #s402 #mac24 #metadata

They answered my question about cool interoperability possibilities with Universal Viewer with an example of combining the display of oral histories with archival photos. Digital Exhibitions have been the main use so far. #mac24 #s402

U. Minnesota's digital library is Content DM with a home grown Universal Viewer built with Ruby as the display end. They're moving to Blacklight soon. #s402 #mac24 #digitalLibraries

Seeing an example of how they're linking together a manuscript letter with the recipient's response at another institution using #IIIF and Universal Viewer. From item level description to metadata to Universal Viewer. Three steps to access. #s402 #mac24 #mac2024 #archives #UniversalViewer

Ooh. Now hearing about how Minnesota moved along to Universal Viewer for digital library display. I'm signed up for a #IIIF workshop this summer. Excited to learn more. #mac24 #s402

Beefing up abstracts in the finding aids because of how they map to the needed digital library metadata and adding reparative description needed for noting sensitive materials both inspire archival reprocessing when digitizing. #s402 #mac24

Newspaper clippings collections and diaries were reprocessed. Needed dates. The digital version of the newspaper clippings will likely become the primary format accessed in the future. #s402 #mac24

"Digitization need are re-processing priorities." Digitization revealed needs for changes in finding aid hierarchy. #mac24 #s402

After some terrific posters, next up is #S402: Good Things Come in Threes: Building a Digital Collection at the University of Minnesota. #mac24

“VHS mildew is accelerating in the past two years, even for mini DVs.” #s302 #mac24

The archivist went box by box making a spreadsheet with location, media type, and condition notes. At the assessment stage they prioritized digitization for items without deterioration as the first step. #s302 #mac24

Next up is Thor Anderson from Saving Tape Media Conservation talking about Assessing Your Analog Media. #s302 #mac24

The panel ends with the room sharing collective empathy about floppy discs marked “VIRUS.” #s201 #mac24

Moss-Paul’s next steps are establishing digital exhibitions and an institutional repository, now that “staffing has doubled - to two!” They also now have open hours. #mac24 #s201 #archives

I appreciate how MAC presentations always focus on creating panels from different size institutions. It’s too easy to always hear from R1 institutions. #mac24

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Moss-Paul is describing her methods from day 1, reading the finding aids, establishing records management relationships on campus and retention schedules, creating file naming conventions, surveying existing collections formats, and attending many webinars. #s201 #mac24

The records management push into digital records was the catalyst for born-digital workflows but coming from being unstaffed, getting passwords and access to what already existed was the first hurdle. (Reminder to document, document, document). #s201 #mac24

Stacy Moss-Paul presenting a similar “Day 1” experience at Chicago State University, but at a small institution where the archives and record management had been unstaffed for a while. #s201 #mac24

Andrew McDonnell from the University of Kentucky #s201 speaking about day one as a born -digital archivist. Growing familiar with tenure responsibilities, BitCurator, command-line interface, and a “graseweasel” for transferring by 5.25 floppy discs. #mac24

Tweeting from the Midwest Archives Conference Annual meeting today. #mac24 I’m not sure how logistically this works best here yet, but I’ll try keeping them all in a thread. #archives