From Silos to (Archives)Space: Moving Legacy Finding Aids Online as a Multi-Department Library Collaboration
Abstract
Prior to 2014, finding aids from Hunter Library’s Special Collections did not have a publicly
accessible online presence and resided as Microsoft Word documents on an internal library
server. In 2014, Hunter Library began transferring these finding aids to ArchivesSpace, an
open source archives information management application. ArchivesSpace allowed librarians
to publish and export EAD finding aids on the web. This article discusses the project as
an interdepartmental collaboration among Special Collections, Cataloging, and Digital
Projects. The authors consider this paper useful as a workflow model for libraries which lack
technical infrastructure but want to transfer legacy collection descriptions to ArchivesSpace.