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Margaret Hedstrom Associate Professor
BA, Grinnell College; MS in library science and MA in history, Ph.D. in history, University of Wisconsin
(734) 647-3582
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E-mail: hedstrom@umich.edu
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Margaret Hedstrom is an associate professor in the School of Information.
Before joining the U-M faculty in 1995, Hedstrom was chief of state records advisory services and director of the Center for Electronic Records at the New York State Archives and Records Administration (1985-95).
In fall 2003, she was an author of "It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation (PDF)," sponsored by the Digital Government Research Program and the Digital Libraries Program Directorate for Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. The other report was "Invest to Save (PDF) ?," a report and recommendations of the Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation, sponsored by the NSF and the European Union.
Other writings include "Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries ?."
Her current Library of Congress-National Science Foundation work is "Incentives for Data Producers to Create Archive-Ready Data Sets ?."
She also headed the CAMiLEON project with the University of Leeds. In that project, researchers were devoted to the use of emulation tools as part of a strategy for long-term preservation of digital records. CAMiLEON stood for Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds: Emulating the Old on the New.
Other major professional accomplishments have included heading the SI research team that assembled the archives of the African National Congress at the University of For Hare's National Heritage Cultural Studies Centre in South Africa.
Hedstrom has been conducting research on the management and preservation of electronic records since 1979 with the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. At the New York State Archives and Records Administration, she supervised a three-year research project which developed alternative models for electronic records programs. She was also one of the principal planners of a major conference on electronic records research held in 1991 which established national priorities for research and development; and she organized a follow-up conference in 1996.
She has published widely on many aspects of archival management, electronic records, and digital preservation and is writing a book on digital preservation to be published by MIT Press. Her current research interests include digital preservation strategies, the impact of electronic communications on organizational memory and documentation, remote access to archival materials, and cultural preservation and outreach in developing countries.
She has conducted more than 20 professional development workshops in the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., and Sweden. She has served on doctoral committees at the University at Albany, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Michigan.
Hedstrom has participated in numerous elected, appointed, and voluntary professional and service activities:
- Society of American Archivists, member of council,
1992-95, and:
- Task Force/Committee on Automated Records and
Techniques, 1981-92, (chair, 1988-90)
- Committee on Goals and Priorities, 1990-93
- Program Committee, 1992
- Steering Committee of the Government Records
Section, 1987-90
- Task Force on Organizational Effectiveness (cochair,
1995-97)
- Secretary, vice-chair, and chair of the New York State
Forum for Information
Resources Management, 1992-95
She has been a consultant to more than a dozen government archival programs, the World Bank, the International Council on Archives, and the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. Hedstrom is a fellow of the Society of American Archivists and she was the first recipient of the annual Award for Excellence in New York State Government Information Services.
View Professor Hedstrom's Wikipedia entry.
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