They're More Like Guidelines: Reflections on Best Practices from New Professionals Elizabeth England(1), Charlotte Kostelic(2), Joe Carrano(3), Meredith Broadway(4), Megan Potterbusch(5), Amy Gay(6) 1: Johns Hopkins University, United States of America; 2: Library of Congress; 3: Georgetown University; 4: World Bank Group; 5: Association of Research Libraries; 6: U.S. Food & Drug Administration
This panel will focus on National Digital Stewardship Residency projects united by the common thread of ‘best versus good enough’ and the residents’ experiences navigating the political nature of best practices and compromise, covering topics such as scalability, institutional resources, competing priorities, and responding to new policy implementations.
Joe Carrano is a Digital Archivist at MIT Libraries. He has an MA in History and an MLS with a specialization in Archives, Records, and Information Management from the University of Maryland, College Park.