ARCHIVES 2013

Archivists who manage audiovisual collections process materials at the item level for practical reasons: items arrive insufficiently labeled, unidentified, or inaccessible for playback. As a result, the descriptive emphasis is on the physical object itself and on format and condition characteristics that address preservation concerns, often without contextualizing the object as part of a collection for access by researchers. Panelists address streamlining processing to balance the needs of both preservation and access.

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