Taming the Digital Collections Backlog: Challenges and approaches to growing access to digitized materials

Providing access to digitized collections material is time-intensive work that can very easily exceed staffing capacity. In this panel, archivists, librarians, and digital collections managers examine the challenges and opportunities involved in expanding access to digitized materials while sharing strategies for keeping digital collections backlogs at bay.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-10-14
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23374016
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Digital and Traditional Archives Management
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Taming the Digital Collections Backlog: Challenges and approaches to growing access to digitized materials

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Taming the Digital Collections Backlog: Challenges and approaches to growing access to digitized materials

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Abstract

Providing access to digitized collections material is time-intensive work that can very easily exceed staffing capacity. In this panel, archivists, librarians, and digital collections managers examine the challenges and opportunities involved in expanding access to digitized materials while sharing strategies for keeping digital collections backlogs at bay.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Brigham Young University (US), Georgetown University (US), University of Maryland, College Park (US)
Openalex Percentile: Top 3%
Digital and Traditional Archives Management
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