Preparing the Austin History Center for Migration: from Legacy to ArchivesSpace

The Austin History Center is planning to move its accession records and finding aid information from their current multiple Microsoft Access Databases where the information is stored. The migration will be completed by the company Lyrasis, but before that can be done, the Austin History Center’s data required some clean-up to standardize the data and ensure proper migration. In addition to data clean-up, I completed a literature review of other institutions' instances of ArchivesSpace to provide insight into possible challenges that could arise, tips about best practices, and answer questions about how ArchivesSpace could be best utilized for the Austin History Center. Additionally, I created educational training materials for future and current staff and volunteers on how to use ArchivesSpace.