Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Collection Development and Management Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Collection Development and Management
Archivesspace Adventures: A Migration, Adam Stephen Guy Smith, Heidi J. Southworth
Archivesspace Adventures: A Migration, Adam Stephen Guy Smith, Heidi J. Southworth
Library Services Publications
On February 4, 2019, the University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center at Minnesota State University, Mankato successfully launched a new archival tool for our patrons called ArchivesSpace. While this at first glance may not seem like a big deal, the journey that the archives undertook to transform this search tool from a set of static HTML pages (all 700+ of them) to an easy-to-use search engine contained danger around every corner. The team had to fend off lions, tigers, and bears and had to blaze a path through a thick forest of metadata and archival records. The journey traveled …