Hunt and Grossman (2013) state that digital archiving goes hand in hand with digitization and electronic indexing. It involves all the tasks centred around organising the digital archive. Many organisations are looking to save space by digitizing their records and this process also facilitates better access and preservation. Librarians already possess many of the skills necessary for archival work, with many smaller archives being a hybrid collection of books, papers and ephemera relating to a central theme. There are archival standards, such as Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) (I'm not sure if these are American or used internationally). They are basically a set of rules that can be used to describe and catalogue an archival item. Hunt and Grossman suggest that gaining some experience of archival and digital cataloguing will widen employment opportunities.
Hunt, Deborah and Grossman, David (2013) Librarian's Skillbook: 51 essential career skills for information professionals
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