"Managing the Digital Desktop" is a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant funded project to study computer file management practices in academic units and administrative offices here at UNC-CH, across the 16-campus UNC System, and at Duke University.

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March 2004

The "Email Management Tools" workshop took place on March 10, 2004 from 9:30 - 1:30 at Perkins Library. Forty-two participants from Duke and UNC discussed six different FAQs regarding how to manage email and evaluated them for their usefulness and potential workplace application. See the Workshop Agenda and Workshop Summary for more details.

Tibbo provided the first look at our findings from our interview data at the ECURE conference in Tempe, Arizona. Her presentation gives an overview of the project and highlights data collected regarding the appraisal, retention, and deletion of electronic documents.

September 2003

We've created a Fact Sheet that highlights some of the results from the email survey conducted in the Fall of 2002.

August 2003

Tibbo presents "Managing the Digital Desktop: Campus Confidential" at the Society of American Archivists 2003 Annual Meeting as part of the "To Have But Not to Hold: Issues of Institutional and Private Ownership of E-Mail Records" program session. This presentation gave an overview of the project, results from the survey, and conclusions from the analysis of concerns regarding privacy and security. It also deals with a few questions regarding privacy and security from the interviews.

July 2003

Tibbo has published an article in the Journal of the Society of North Carolina Archivists on the project.

"Managing the Digital University Desktop: Understanding and Empowering the Individual; Preserving the Public Records and Institutional History." Journal of the Society of North Carolina Archivists 2/1 (July 2003): 29-40.

April 2003

2003 Pyatt and Tibbo applied for and received $1,000 from the Robertson Scholarship Collaboration Fund, a program that encourages and supports joint UNC-CH and Duke cooperative projects, to support a March 2004 meeting of focus groups from the two schools. Project staff will give a status report and present early drafts of e-mail and desktop management policies for discussion and feedback to the groups.