Digital Archives

Though we primarily handle and prefer physical material, the Crumley Archives recognizes that an increasing number of documents are born-digital or digitized for access and other uses.  The preferred archival format for storing documents in the Crumley Archives is on acid-free paper, or secondarily, on microfilm.  Reasonable efforts will be made to transfer digital documents to paper format and to encourage the creators of documents in our collection to make paper copies prior to transferring materials to us. 

Where feasible, digital formats will also be saved.  Some digital formats without paper versions are also preserved in our collections, until such time as they are needed or when resources become available to migrate them to more permanent media.  Generally, digital documents are stored with non-digital documents in the same series, creator and provenance; only microfilm and larger photographic collections are stored separately in housing appropriate to them. 

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To explore items contained in our digital archives for Region 9 of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, we invite you to click the links below to learn more.