Abstract
A collaborative project to improve global description and thus discovery of library material is shared and analyzed after a decade of activity. The Immigration History Research Center Archives and the National Archives of Estonia work together to arrange and describe archival collections, utilizing the assets of the two different institution. This project recognizes that the unique research material located in Minnesota holds importance to patrons in many countries, are a result of cultural and informational migration, and that access to this multilingual source material relies on robust description. The article provides the project’s context, and describes its administration.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 565-577 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Journal of Library Administration |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 4 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019, Published with license by Taylor & Francis. © 2019, © The Author(s).
Keywords
- access
- archives
- collaboration
- discoverability
- international
- libraries
- metadata
- multilingual
- staffing