Preserving History: Hip Hop, Paul Miller and Oklahoma

Chair: Robin Leech, Oklahoma State University

Each collection or project presents unique processing challenges, and these issues are compounded

when dealing with nontraditional formats, materials, departmental collaboration and collaborative

metadata creation. Among the collections discussed will be the newly‐acquired Houston Hip Hop

Collections at the University of Houston and their associated privacy and security issues. The

second panelist will discuss the challenges of processing several hundred newspaper editorials and

the collaborative creation of metadata. The final speaker will describe a statewide digital collection

of historic serials and the challenges of locating issues at disparate archives, and digitizing from

microfilm, poorly bound government documents and crumbling paper.

• From Flows to Finding Aids: Processing the Houston Hip Hop Collections at the University of Houston Libraries
• • Alison Clemens, University of Houston
• Misty Smith, Oklahoma State University
  
• Robin Leech, Oklahoma State University