New Skills for a Digital Era

Required Readings

Rather than a formal presentation of the case studies at the colloquium, participants are expected to read the studies before arriving to save valuable "face time" for discussion.

Case studies will be posted by 1 May.

Recommended Readings

For more background on the impact of technology on libraries, archives, and records management, participants may want to read some of the following works.

If you've found an article that you found particularly useful for its insights into the challenges of electronic records and the new skills necessary to work with these materials, please suggest them so they can be added to this list.

• Abram, Stephen. "Worry: Part 1, Part 2." SirsiDynix OneSource (1:2-3).



• Authenticity in a Digital Environment (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000).



• Garrod, Penny, and Ivan Sidgreaves. "Skills for new Information Professionals: the SKIP Project" (Academic Services, University of Plymouth, [1998]).
  
  
• Lee, Cal. "Guerilla ERM: Lessons Learned from some Time in the Trenches." Also published in Ohio Archivist (Spring 2001).



• Levy, David. Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age (Arcade, 2001).



• Pearce-Moses, Richard. "An Archivist's Response to the Digital Era," Archival Outlook (September/October 2005).
  —————. "The Winds of Change: Blown to Bits," presented at Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, 2005.



• Sellen, Abigail J., and Richard H. R. Harper. The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT Press, 2002).



• Thibodeau, Kenneth. "Archival Science and Archival Engineering: Building a New Future for the Past," forthcoming in Archival Outlook.