Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries
23 January 2017
Kendra Morgan, Merrilee Proffitt
Time to Open Up! The Why and How of Opening Up Archival Finding Aids and the Unintended Consequences of Being Closed.
1 March 2016
Merrilee Proffitt, Heather Briston
Shaping the Library to the Life of the User: Adapting, Empowering, Partnering, Engaging
16 December 2015
Merrilee Proffitt, Jim Michalko, Melissa Renspie
Thresholds for Discovery: EAD Tag Analysis in ArchiveGrid, and Implications for Discovery Systems
14 October 2013
Marc Bron, Merrilee Proffitt, Bruce Washburn
The paper analyzes a large collection of over 120,000 Encoded Archival Description (EAD) documents within the ArchiveGrid discovery system. It evaluates how well these documents support online discovery and establishes criteria for completeness and consistency. The study reveals that while the EAD standard and encoding practices have limitations for comprehensive online discovery, emerging trends, such as updates to the EAD standard and the use of new encoding tools, offer promising improvements for the future.
Social Media and Archives: A Survey of Archive Users
16 August 2013
Bruce Washburn, Ellen Eckert, Merrilee Proffitt
This report details findings from a survey of users of archives to learn more about how researchers find out about systems like ArchiveGrid, and the role that social media, recommendations, reviews, and other forms of user-contributed annotation play in archival research. It will be of interest to those working with archival discovery services, or those investigating the utility of social media in discovery environments.
The Practice, Power, and Promise of Archival Collections Assessment
1 October 2012
Martha O'Hara Conway, Merrilee Proffitt
2012 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Trends and Issues affecting Academic Libraries in Higher Education
1 June 2012
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Janice S. Lewis, Stephanie Alexander, Yunfei Du, Brad Eden, Barbara Petersohn, +
Something's Got to Give: What Can We Stop Doing in a Time of Reduced Resources
1 October 2011
Merrilee Proffitt
Taking Stock and Making Hay: Archival Collections Assessment
26 September 2011
Martha O'Hara Conway, Merrilee Proffitt
This report identifies projects and methodologies that can be used as-is or serve as models for librarians, archivists and others who are considering collections assessment to meet one or several institutional needs. The goal of the report is to encourage a community of practice and to make it easier for institutions of all types to undertake collections assessment.