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How to Submit a Case Study on Diversifying the Archival Record

The submission process for a Case Study on Diversifying the Archival Record is designed for ease and flexibility of use. Authors are required to submit only basic information. A completed submission form in and of itself may be sufficient for a Case Study, although links for context, contacts, and more detailed description or other evidence of results are encouraged. The length of the Case Study may vary.

Preparing Your Case Study: Please use the submission form below. Be sure to include, to the best of your ability, all of the information requested—such as identity, authorship, and case summary.

Suggested elements for a Case Study include cultural context and background of the involved individuals, groups, and/or organizations; nature of the records; key challenges (both anticipated and those that have been overcome); illustration of the unique efforts made to collect and document the archival record; analysis; and how archivists, other information professionals, teachers, and communities can use the Case Study as a resource or reference.

Illustrations, such as tables, charts, and digital images, are welcome and should be attached to the form.

Authors are responsible for understanding and following the principles that govern the “fair use” of quotations and illustrations and for obtaining written permission to publish, where necessary. Accuracy in citations is also the author’s responsibility.

Copyright of the Case Study will remain with the author, and SAA will acknowledge that in the copyright line that will appear with the Case Study. Authors will consent, grant, and assign to SAA the right to publish and/or distribute all or any part of the Case Study throughout the world in electronic or any other medium.

Please direct questions or requests for additional information to saahq@archivists.org.

Submission Form for Case Study on Diversifying the Archival Record

Please try, to the best of your ability, to include all of the information requested.

1. Background

Please include background of the involved individuals, groups, and/or organizations.

Enter information on any additional individual/group/organization names, mailing addresses, or websites.

2. Authorship
3. Summary

What is/are the issue(s) being addressed?

4. Case Study on Diversifying the Archival Record

Suggested elements for a Case Study include cultural context and background of the involved individuals, groups, and/or organizations; nature of the records; key challenges (both anticipated and overcome); illustration of the unique efforts made to collect and document the archival record; analysis; and how archivists, other information professionals, teachers, and communities can use the Case Study as a resource or reference.

Description may be organized into:

Information regarding cultural and/or organizational context, reason for the case, key challenges, and project participants.

Case Methodology

Describe information such as:

(e.g., creators, authority, policy and regulatory constraints on the records, purpose of the records, content of records, retention scheduling and lifecycle, operational workflow, restrictions on use, custodianship of records)

(Either anticipated or overcome - or both!)

(e.g., transfer and ingest process; how records were accessed; partners [such as office of origin, community contacts, project advisors])

(e.g., the staffing, technical services, and/or funding used to start, maintain, or complete the project)

Information regarding lessons learned, implications, unresolved issues, unsuccessful strategies, next steps, and future plans.

How archivists, other information professionals, teachers, and communities can use the Case Study as a resource or reference.

Please include any attachments here. Size limit is 800 KB. Larger attachments can be emailed to saahq@archivists.org. Referece the Case Study title in the subject line so that materials can be matched.

Updated: 2013-12-20