2022 SGA Annual Meeting Session 4A: 15 minute presentations
Channel: Society of Georgia Archivists
Date: 2023-10-23

Presentation 1: Broadening Archival Access with ArchivesSpace 
Lydia Brown, Mercer University
Gabrielle Hale, Mercer University
Kathryn Sheriff, Mercer University

Mercer University archivists discuss how they have re-evaluated workflows, created new local standards for archival description, and made finding aids available online using ArchivesSpace and DSpace. They will describe the ways in which they’ve worked cross-departmentally in order to better meet users’ needs, how they created a semi-automated process for ingesting large-scale box and folder lists into ArchivesSpace using Python, and their approach to adjusting a variety of unconventional finding aids and indexes.

Presentation 2: No Clear Roadmap: An Overview of the Digitization and Cataloging of the John Burrison Georgia Folklore Archive Recordings
Leah Lefkowitz, Atlanta History Center

This session highlights the Atlanta History Center’s project to digitize and catalog the John Burrision Georgia Folklore Archive recordings, including a discussion of grant writing, metadata creation, ethical and legal considerations, anti-racist description, and intern management.

Presentation 3: Georgia Heritage Responders: Update and Next Steps
Tina Seetoo, Delta Flight Museum and Co-Chair, Heritage Emergency
       Response Alliance

We are all witnessing the frequency and intensity of natural disasters resulting from climate change. Disasters aren’t as scary if you are prepared and have identified local resources before a disaster strikes. This session will provide an update on disaster resources for cultural heritage organizations in Georgia including a new group of Georgia Heritage Responders trained specifically in emergency response for cultural heritage collections.