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“Edited by Laura Thornburgh,” Pioneer of Motion Picture Education

Unwritten Record

In the summer of 1923, Laura Thornborough and Don Carlos Ellis published Motion Pictures in Education , a book instructing teachers in how to use films in their classrooms. It might be surprising to learn that there was a time when the case had to be made for the value of motion pictures in education. But who was Laura Thornburgh?

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Spotlight: Photographs Documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Unwritten Record

In fact, photographs documenting CCC activities and companies are scattered throughout the United States and are housed within the collections of state libraries and archives, university libraries and archives, and within the collections of local historical societies.

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Visual Cues and Clues: Picking the Right Record Group for Still Pictures

Unwritten Record

Keep in mind that photos can also be located at Regional Facilities, Presidential Libraries, or even Textual Records. . At the National Archives, Record Groups serve as a way to organize records into specific groups based on which Government Agency created, maintained, or arranged those records.

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Collecting for continuity and for change: The web archiving experience in Westborough

Archive-It

By Anthony Vaver, Local History Librarian and Archivist, Westborough Public Library. Still, I struggled to come up with a reason why someone from our growing South Asian population should visit our public library’s local history room. Local history at our library is accordingly going through a bit of a renaissance.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. While these RIM practices are still important to help ensure governance, compliance, and manage risks, it is also important to realize that information is both a product and a service. Over the millennia, agriculture has used countless technologies to increase production.