BERTRAM, Cara
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Curriculum
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Work
Experience
University of Illinois Archives .
Archival Operations and Reference Specialist. Urbana-Champaign, IL
1/2013-Present
Yellowstone National
Park. Archives Technician. Gardiner,
MT 2/2012-9/2012
National Museum of the American Indian. Archives
Intern. Suitland, MD 6/2011-8/2011
Education
Western Washington
University. MA in History/Archives
2009-2012. BA in History 2005-2009.
Thesis:
“Avenues of Mutual Respect: Opening Communication and Understanding between
Native Americans and Archivists”
Presentations
and Papers
Presentation
at American Library Association Midwinter Meeting: American Library
Association Institutional Repository. Philadelphia,
PA 2014
Papers at
Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference
“The Call
to Justice, When No One is Around to Answer: Selection and Appraisal of
Archival Documents and the Control of History Through Colonial Archives” Seattle, WA
2011
“Native
American and Archives: Taking Control of Cultural Heritage” Anaconda, MT
2010
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Title:
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Preserving Librarian History in the Digital Age: Developing the
American Library Association Institutional Repository
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Brief summary:
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In 2013,
the American Library Association Archives started a pilot project to launch
a digital repository to manage and preserve digital records. This paper
will provide background on the project including an overview of its
implementation, structure, preservation, workflow, and outreach.
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Content:
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This case
study will demonstrate the application of a digital repository that builds
upon and shows the change in the collaborative relationship between the
University Illinois and the American Library Association through archives
and the increase of born digital records. The American Library Association
Archives at the University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign is the official repository of the American Library Association
(ALA), including its offices, sections, round tables, and members. In
recent years, electronic records have presented problems to the ALA and ALA Archives
in terms of ease of depositing, access, and preservation of records. Responding
to these needs, the ALA Archives recently implemented a digital repository
as a one-year pilot project. This case study will cover the result of the
pilot project, the American Library Association Institutional Repository
(ALAIR), which is an open access repository that collects, stores, and
provides access to publications and born digital records. The case study
will detail the initial planning and early efforts in preserving digital
records. It will also investigate work with DuraSpace,
using their DSpaceDirect service to host and
provide support for ALAIR, and methods of digital preservation with cloud
storage. Finally, it will cover the development of the organization and
branding of the site, creation of a workflow, training materials, and
outreach efforts.
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Scientific contribution:
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This case
study investigates the implementation of an institutional repository for a
large professional organization, the American Library Association, and its
utilization as a supplemental service for digital preservation of born
digital records. The digital repository operates on a structure typically
used by academic institutions to collect and preserve scholarship from
librarian professionals, along with other archival materials from the
organization. This work will demonstrate archival practices being
complemented by digital preservation technologies from the library
community. It also explores the usage of third party hosting for an
institutional repository. This includes concerns and work in regards to
archival preservation via cloud storage, metadata standards, user access,
and cost of subscription versus cost of in-house implementation and
support.
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Keywords:
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digital records, digital preservation,
institutional repository,
DuraSpace, American Library Association
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