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Public-private partnerships and the future of digital access in US state archives

This project examines the network of public cultural institutions and private sector organizations engaged in the work of digitizing historical records. Recent technological advances, coupled with a changing financial climate for libraries and archives in the public sector, have resulted in a new generation of partnerships focused on the digitization of materials traditionally held in public institutions. Through a mixed-methods social science approach, this project seeks to understand how these partnerships form, how they are negotiated, managed, and how they end. It further examines how digitization through partnerships affects public access to records. This study is currently in progress; its results will provide a unique look into an emergent set of relationships and a public information access environment in transition.