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This blog post was contributed by Kate Phillips, a graduate student in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill.The John M. Hall Photographs are a very cool — but very…

“How many linear feet do you have?” In special collections and archives, we often hear this question. A linear foot is a unit of measurement used to gauge the size of a collection or an…

The Special Collections Research Center blog series "Student Spotlight" features student employees who contribute to the work of the SCRC. Guest author Kate Phillips, class of 2026, is a graduate…

The Special Collections Research Center has collected and preserves more than 10 TB of  born-digital materials. We maintain intellectual control through the collections management…

While all that could be heard was the humming of some computer fans and disks spinning, DAEV version 2 made its quiet launch at the end of 2023. DAEV (Digital Assets of Enduring Value) is a web…

The Special Collections Research Center blog series "Student Spotlight" features student employees who contribute to the work of the SCRC. Guest author William Boyer is a graduate student in the…

The Special Collections Research Center blog series "Student Spotlight" features student employees who contribute to the work of the SCRC. Guest author Alex Daniels is a graduate student in the…

Social security numbers. Medical records. Academic transcripts. Email addresses. GPS coordinates. These may be left behind as traces of an individual’s or organization’s digital life. In the Special…

Digital Archivist Shelly Black has been elected to a two-year term on the BitCurator Consortium Executive Council, joining a cohort of two other new council members.“I'm honored to have been…

As promised in a previous post, we'll be writing about the process of overhauling our approach to dealing with born-digital archival materials as we go along this spring and summer (and maybe fall).…