Margaret L Hedstrom is an American archivist who is professor emerita of informationat the University of Michigan School of Information.
11 Facts About Margaret Hedstrom
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Margaret Hedstrom has contributed to the fields of digital preservation, archives, and electronic records management.
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Margaret Hedstrom has been a consultant to government archival programs, the World Bank, and the International Council on Archives.
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Margaret Hedstrom has served on doctoral committees at the State University of New York at Albany, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Michigan.
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Margaret Hedstrom conducted research on the management and preservation of electronic records for nearly 20 years, beginning at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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Margaret Hedstrom was a principal planner of a major conference on electronic records research held in 1991.
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Margaret Hedstrom has shaped research in digital preservation, beginning with her 1991 article "Understanding Electronic Incunabula".
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Margaret Hedstrom was a main author of It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation, sponsored by the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering's Digital Government Program and Digital Libraries Program and the Library of Congress' National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
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Margaret Hedstrom co-authored the report Invest to Save: Report and Recommendations of the NSF-DELOS Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation.
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Margaret Hedstrom was named as a fellow of the Society of American Archivists in 1992.
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Margaret Hedstrom received the University of Michigan's Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award for her work at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa.