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Alston Cobourn

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presentations

professional service activities

  • Member Forum Planning Committee I served on the ArchivesSpace Virtual Member Forum planning committee. 2024
  • Nominating Committee Member I served on the Nominating Committee for the Society of North Carolina Archivists. 2024
  • SAA Metadata and Digital Object Section Steering Committee member After an officer resigned, I served the remainder of their term on the Society of American Archivists Metadata and Digital Object Section Steering Committee. 2022 - 2023
  • Society of North Carolina Archivists Conference Member of the conference planning committee for the Spring 2024 annual conference 2022 - 2023
  • Society of North Carolina Archivists I served on the Nominating Committee for the Society of North Carolina Archivists. 2022
  • North Carolina Community College Archives Association Advisory Committee I am now serving on the NCCCAA Advisory Committee which answers questions, provides expertise, suggests resources, and offers helpful contacts to NCCCAA members responsible for stewardship of community college archives. 2022
  • Digital Library Federation's Born-Digital Access: Levels & Tiers Sub-Group I served on the Digital Library Federation's Born-Digital Access: Levels & Tiers Sub-Group. We worked to standardized language around providing access to born-digital materials, develop best practices, and make sure the correct communities are involved in this process. After an open comment period and several revisions, the DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group released our publication Levels of Born-Digital Access (https://osf.io/hqmy4/), which provides a set of format-agnostic baseline practices for born-digital access, laying out concrete and actionable recommendations that individual institutions can consider implementing according to their needs, resources, and abilities. 2017 - 2021
  • ArchivesSpace User Advisory Council I served on the ArchivesSpace User Advisory Council for the last two years. ; This group is comprised of archivists from ArchivesSpace member institutions across the country. In this role I serve as a liaison with archival communities and help advise the AS organizational home on ;design and delivery of user services. 2016 - 2018
  • ArchivesSpace User Advisory Council Reports subteam I served on the Reports subteam of the ArchivesSpace User Advisory Council as a member for 4 years and a co-chair for 1. ; This team is made up of archivists from ArchivesSpace member organizations all over the country. 2014 - 2018

preferred title

  • University Archivist