QUESTION
Why did the number of records digitized decrease significantly in the first four months of this fiscal year, and what impact did staffing reductions have on this?
5:10:02
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The decrease in digitized records is due primarily to the completion of large projects in the previous fiscal year and is not related to staffing reductions.
- Most digitization work is funded by grant projects.
- Big projects completed in fiscal year 23 led to higher digitization numbers in that period.
- Currently, digitization is lower but has resumed with a new project in January.
- Staffing reductions have no impact on the digitization numbers.
Lincoln Restler
5:10:02
And then the last question I wanted to ask is regarding the numbers of records digitized, there was a a pretty remarkable reduction in the numbers of records digitized in the PMMR for the 1st 4 months of this fiscal year relative to the last fiscal year.
5:10:20
Can you explain that significant shift?
5:10:23
And can you also explain the impact of staffing reduction on that?
5:10:27
Sure.
Ken Cobb
5:10:28
Most of the digitization work is funded by grand projects.
5:10:32
Just so happened in fiscal 23, we finished up a couple big projects, so we had big numbers in fiscal 23.
5:10:39
At the moment, it's diminished.
5:10:41
Although in January, we started digitizing again with another project.
5:10:45
We mentioned the stack foundation.
5:10:47
We're digitizing the 1890ยข.
5:10:49
It's it's an important record for family history research.
5:10:52
She'll start seeing the numbers to come up again.
5:10:56
It's not really related to staff staffing.
5:10:59
It's more to do with the funding that pays for people to do things like that.
Lincoln Restler
5:11:04
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5:11:06
Is there anything else?
Gale A. Brewer
5:11:08
Rock stars.
Lincoln Restler
5:11:10
I wanna
David M. Carr
5:11:14
I want to
Lincoln Restler
5:11:18
concur with cast member brewers gratitude for the work of the team at Doris.
5:11:22
Thank you for coming in and sharing insights with this committee on the work that you're doing.
5:11:26
And if there are ways that we can be helpful moving forward, please do let us know.