Making Your Tools Work for You

Max Eckard is the lead archivist for Digital Initiatives at the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library, where he provides strategic vision for the development and integration of the Bentley's technical ecosystem, which includes Aeon, ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, Archive-It, and DSpace, and supports the processing of complex collections, the creation and reuse of metadata, and the introduction of more efficient workflows through technical innovation. Eckard has served as a member of the ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace Workflow Integration project team, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2014-2016), and as a member and then chair of the ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Committee (2015-2019). He has frequently published and presented on the topic of systems integration, and has developed and teaches the Society of American Archivists' Education course "Tool Integration: From Pre-SIP to DPI." He earned his masters of library science with concentrations in academic and digital librarianship from the North Carolina Central University School of Library and Information Sciences.