Adapting for Distance: A Perspective on Team-based Archival Processing during a Pandemic (Article)
Title: Adapting for Distance: A Perspective on Team-based Archival Processing during a Pandemic
Author: Sarah Jones
Author: Ryan DiPaolo
Abstract: For decades, team processing has been an effective method of tackling extensive collections that would consume a single processor's time. The effectiveness of team processing was challenged in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the archival profession to reexamine long-standing methods of shared work. While some aspects of processing and descriptive work easily shift to remote work, other aspects of processing remain steadfastly physical. This article examines a team processing project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Special Collections and Archives to process a major collection previously held by the university's Film Department that began in summer of 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors share their experience adapting physical processes to ever-changing health and safety guidelines and discuss what changes are worth retaining and which processes presented the biggest challenges to pandemic protocols.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://meridian.allenpress.com/american-archivist/article/86/1/207/493973/Adapting-for-Distance-A-Perspective-on-Team-based
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Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The American Archivist
Publisher: Allen Press for the Society of American Archivists

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