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Pending Updates to Regulations of Archives in Colombia

AIIM

This article was written by AIIM Florida Chapter Board Member Alvaro Arias Cruz , District Director of Archives of Bogotá. Colombia has one of the most robust and comprehensive archives laws in the Latin American region, identified as the General Archives Law (Law 594 of 2000).

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APT hacked a US municipal government via an unpatched Fortinet VPN

Security Affairs

The FBI revealed that foreign hackers compromised the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting flaws in an unpatched Fortinet VPN. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that an APT group had breached the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet VPN.

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Power & Light: Russell Lee’s Coal Survey Exhibit

Unwritten Record

I’m pleased to announce the recent opening of a new exhibit at the National Archives Building, Power & Light: Russell Lee’s Coal Survey , which will run until July 6, 2025. To read more about the survey and Russell Lee, check out this newly posted blog by National Archives Historian Jessie Kratz. June 13, 1946.

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Coal Mining in Alaska: Coal Fields of the Alaska Engineering Commission

Unwritten Record

Mining has been a vital part of Alaska’s economy for hundreds of years. Often when we think of mining in Alaska, we think of gold mining and the gold rush of the late 1800s. The first commercial coal mine in Alaska was opened in 1855 by the Russian-American Company in the same location. NAID: 59728269. NAID: 60006457.

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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

In a nutshell, this is information governance. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information. But how is information governance any different than records management? Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

Unwritten Record

You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). Researchers for the most part came to Washington, D.C.,

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The Devil’s Brigade: The First Special Service Force

Unwritten Record

Army, while the Canadian soldiers would be paid by the Canadian government. The photographs included in this post are considered US Government records and are therefore within the public domain. The National Archives does not grant exclusive or non-exclusive publication privileges. Frederick and activated on July 9, 1942.