Four archivists from UO's Special Collections and University Archives have been certified as Digital Archives Specialists by the Society of American Archivists. Certification requires completing a minimum of nine courses on topics such as digital forensics, electronic records arrangement and description, accessibility and user experience, preservation tools, and more; as well as passing individual course exams and a program comprehensive exam. Additionally, SCUA staff have been hard at work over the past year implementing new digital forensics equipment and developing robust workflows for processing and preserving born-digital material. 

Our newly minted Digital Archives Specialists are:

Alexa Goff, Intake Coordinator and Accessioning Archivist

Mahala Ruddell, Lead Processing Archivist

Sarah Lueders, Processing Archivist

Patrick McCall, Special Projects Processing Archivist (DeFazio papers)