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University Libraries Digital Preservation Framework, University Of South Carolina Libraries Jan 2023

University Libraries Digital Preservation Framework, University Of South Carolina Libraries

University Libraries Policies and Reports

The Digital Preservation Policy Framework establishes the University of South Carolina (USC) Libraries as a trusted steward of its digital assets for future researchers and patrons. It guides strategic planning and supports collection development within the University Libraries, making explicit the Libraries’ commitment to preserving digital assets in its collections. The audience for the Framework includes USC faculty, staff, students, and patrons. The policies and procedures derived from this Framework are attainable, consistent, and actionable.

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Teaching Through Activism: Service Learning, Community Archives, And Digital Repository Building In Mlis Classrooms, Travis L. Wagner, Elise Lewis Jan 2018

Teaching Through Activism: Service Learning, Community Archives, And Digital Repository Building In Mlis Classrooms, Travis L. Wagner, Elise Lewis

Student Publications

This paper reflects upon a set of Service Learning (SL) courses taught in the University of South Carolina’s Library and Information Science (LIS) program. The classes discussed helped community archives build digital repositories and provided LIS students skills demanded by potential employers, while affording students chances to experiment with technologies and information organization practices in low-risk, innovative ways. While SL is not pedagogically new to LIS instruction, this paper expands discussion on how SL courses translate between undergraduate and graduate students and within in-person and online variants. The paper concludes with an exploration of the ethical challenges of teaching a …

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Reeling Backward: The Haptics Of A Medium And The Queerness Of Obsolescence, Travis L. Wagner Jan 2018

Reeling Backward: The Haptics Of A Medium And The Queerness Of Obsolescence, Travis L. Wagner

Student Publications

This article considers the haptics of queer activist footage shot on video, and more specifically footage shot on magnetic media. Despite ideal methods of care, magnetic media faces extreme concern from a preservation standpoint. As a format that is both subject to rampant deterioration (known colloquially as “sticky shed”) and obsolescence (with the ceasing VCR production), the queer activist videotape is an archival artefact irretrievably stuck in a liminal space. To play a tape is to contribute to its destruction, yet to not play the tape is to overlook potentially unique moments in queer history. As such, this article explores …

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Viewing History From The Sky: Geo-Rectification Of An Aerial Photography Collection, Kate F. Boyd Nov 2016

Viewing History From The Sky: Geo-Rectification Of An Aerial Photography Collection, Kate F. Boyd

Faculty and Staff Publications

After years of looking for funding, in 2013 USC Libraries was awarded a grant from the Gaylord & Donnelly Foundation to scan and geo-rectify the South Carolina historical aerial photographs from 1930-1980s. This presentation, given at the Digital Library Federation Forum in 2016, documents the efforts to receive funding and the process of bring these photographs online for users. Thanks to Bill Sudduth of Government Information for his efforts in continuing this process.

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“What Are We Doing? And Why? Motion Picture Film And The Digital Transition Era”, Greg Wilsbacher Oct 2014

“What Are We Doing? And Why? Motion Picture Film And The Digital Transition Era”, Greg Wilsbacher

Faculty and Staff Publications

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