American Library Association Core Virtual Interest Group Week
Online
February 2021

Metadata Works From Home: How Student Workers Continued to Work While Increasing Collection Accessibility

American Library Association Core Virtual Interest Group Week
Online
February 2021

Abstract

Faced with campus closures, a University of Houston Libraries team developed plans to engage student employees in creating closed captions for hundreds of archival videos on the Libraries’ Audio/Video Repository. Panelists describe the project and address unique challenges related to transcribing archival content, including dated and offensive content.