Date of Award
Fall 2019
Degree Type
Restricted to Claremont Colleges Master's Thesis
Degree Name
History and Archival Studies, MA
Program
School of Arts and Humanities
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Janet Brodie
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Dan Lewis
Terms of Use & License Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Rights Information
© 2015 Michael T. Hunter
Keywords
Archives, Born Digital, Digitization, Reading Room, Special Collections, technology
Subject Categories
History | Information Literacy | Social and Behavioral Sciences | United States History
Abstract
Still today, reading rooms play an important role in the researcher and archivist relationship. They represent the place wherein researchers conduct their studies. However, in the past couple decades technology has been and continues to allow more research take place outside of these walls. This thesis examines how digitisation and born digital content impact the researcher-archivist relationship. To accomplish this it takes a brief look into the history of archives, the history of digitisation, and couples that with commentary from archivists in the Los Angeles area sharing their thoughts in regards to digitisation, born digital content, and how they impact archives.
Recommended Citation
Hunter, Michael Michael. (2019). From Reading Rooms to Cafes. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 368. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/368.
