Archon → AtoM
St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud State University in Minnesota moved its archival descriptions off the defunct Archon software and into AtoM to centralise finding-aid workflows and gain modern faceted searching. Rather than commit blind, the library first stood up a low-risk trial instance with a cloud host (LibraryHost) before fully migrating — a pragmatic way to test the platform against an embedded legacy system. The migration standardised how finding aids are presented across the university's collections and gave researchers a consistent public interface. Documented in a conference paper by the archivists themselves, it is a useful model for mid-sized US university archives leaving Archon behind.
Original source
Archival Collection Management Systems (Steman & Warga, TCART)
St. Cloud State University Repository
The archived copy opens a snapshot on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, preserved for when the original moves or disappears.
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