Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2026
Department
Libraries
Abstract
This article describes a project undertaken to assess the university records held by Archives & Special Collections at the University of Louisville. The intention was to identify potential gaps in permanent university records and other university records that fall under relevant collection policies, such as those documenting faculty, staff, and student life. This project included generating a report of accession records in ArchivesSpace, conducting data cleanup, coding qualitative data, creating visualizations, and analyzing findings, with the aim of prioritizing outreach to university units and assisting with future backlog processing and reappraisal. The findings identify ways to improve records management and archival practice, yielding insight into recognizing archival gaps in institutional memory.
Original Publication Information
Archival Issues, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2026
ThinkIR Citation
Pryor, Hannah, "Using Data to Identify Gaps and Improve Institutional Collecting in Public University Archives" (2026). Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 1043.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/1043
DOI
https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.26135
