Humanities scholars increasingly use mobile devices such as
laptops, iPhones, and iPads in their professional lives. We
are exploring the opportunities for employing such devices
for supporting scholarly activities in archive reading rooms.
As a first step in this process, we are studying how reading
room policies related to the use of technological devices
impact scholars’ interaction with the source materials in
terms of capturing, organizing, note taking, and record
keeping for future use of found materials. We studied the
policy documents made available by thirty archives and
complemented the results by soliciting the perspectives of
administrators who craft these policies and scholars who use
these archives. We present our analysis and an early
prototype of a policy awareness mobile application called
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