Digital

Libraries are now faced with the challenges of collecting, processing, preserving and providing access to the papers of political, literary, and other prominent cultural figures and organizations, which increasingly include born-digital as well as analog audio-visual and paper materials.  Although the acquisition of such hybrid archives by research universities is now becoming quite standard, best practices for processing, securing, preserving, and providing access to born-digital materials, have yet to be established.  We are interested in bringing together librarians and archivists to share some of the challenges and prospects involved in dealing with hybrid and born-digital papers.