I apologize for cross-posting

Hello all!

First, I want to thank so many of you for your efforts to fill out the 10 question survey.  As of this morning, over 80 institutions had participated!  I want to thank you for your time.  My hope was to get over 100 at least, in order to look at something statistically significant.

I also want to thank the more than a dozen colleagues that contacted me with helpful ideas, networking suggestions and overall positive thoughts!  It confirms that we are a part of a wonderful profession!

Please help me to continue to get these responses in so that I can share good data with all of you!  If you could forward to any others that may be interested, I would be grateful. The survey is due in two days, on the 20th.  The survey does ask you to "estimate" the volume of obsolescent formats and the percentage having historical value.  I promise not to hold you to an exact percentage but we do need to develop a better sense of what has value and needs to be migrated and preserved.

Best,

Kim Schroeder
Coordinator, Archival Program
Lecturer and Career Advisor
Wayne State University
School of Library and Information Science
Faculty Advisor for National Digital Stewardship Alliance
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From: "Kimberly A. Schroeder" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "The NDSA organization list" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 9:29:58 AM
Subject: Assessing Obsolescent Format Content

Hi all!  Many of you know me and my work in multimedia archives.  I have been writing a lengthy article involving seven years of research into obsolescent formats in both digital and video.  

There is one missing fact that I need so that I can tie statistics together.  Since the historic value of content on obsolescent formats has not been published, I created a survey. In order for this research to be valid, I need a lot of my colleagues to fill out this short survey about the obsolescent formats that they house in their institutions.  Warning, it involves math! That said, it is critical that we do this kind of bench-marking beyond case studies institution by institution.  A big weakness in our literature is a lack of larger data sets looking at trends in our field.  If you could PLEASE, pretty please fill this out in the next few weeks (by June 20, 2014), I will release the data in full to the list.  I want to share this not hoard it.  Thank you all for your time!   Please share widely with colleagues!


Here it is!  I thank you for your support!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BPFY3F6


Best,


Kim Schroeder
Coordinator, Archival Program
Lecturer and Career Advisor
Wayne State University
School of Library and Information Science
Faculty Advisor for National Digital Stewardship Alliance
http://wsustudentndsa.wordpress.com/
[log in to unmask]
313 577-9783
Career Advising Page
http://students.slis.wayne.edu/students/planning.php