Lynn Smith

Question Ideas:

1. What is the mission of the archive at the Hoover Library?

2. How many people work specifically at the archive and how many work in the library/museum?

3. What do you do here? How are other duties divided up?

4. You have a lot of online finding aids; do you use Encoded Archival Description or another system?

5. How do you feel about digitization and the challenges presented by digital record keeping? What sorts of challenges have you run into here?

6. Are there any challenges you run into as a larger archive that a smaller one might not experience?

7. The Hoover Library is a part of NARA; what exactly does that mean for you?

8. How did you get to where you are now? What educational experiences have you been through–both in and outside of the classroom?

9. Do you feel like your education really prepared you for archives work?

10. What sorts of disaster prevention and preservation techniques do you employ?

11. How do you decide what is worth archiving?

12. How do you organize incoming documents?

13. What kinds of information do patrons usually come seeking?