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Library History with Heritage & University Archives, Part 2

Archives Blogs

In this second installment of Library History with Heritage & University archives, we’ll be looking at the trajectory of the Library School since its reorganization in 1947. We’ll also be exploring how Special Collections & Archives has grown since its establishment in 1956.

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The Sainsbury Archive chooses Preservica to create new cloud-based digital archive

Preservica

Oxford, London UK and Boston MA, March 14 2018: The Sainsbury Archive, which charts the growth and history of one of the UK’s largest supermarkets, has chosen Preservica’s AWS cloud-hosted digital preservation platform to actively preserve invaluable digital assets relating to the company’s operations.

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New book explores the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit

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Facet Publishing announce the publication of Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future edited by Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras. Although a growing international activity, there has been little consideration of the impact of e-legal deposit on the 21st Century library, or on its present or future users.

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Digitization vs. Digital Preservation

Preservica

Our company started as a project back in 2003 with the UK National Archives as a public sector research project that resulted in the creation of PRONOM, a searchable public technical registry, and DROID, a file format identification tool – both of which are still used today.

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Rebecca B. Rankin: Early Advocate for Public Access to Government Information

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Rankin was the Director of the Municipal Reference Library for the City of New York. Her work included the promotion of resources and services of the library to its clients. Seaver is the author of A True Politician: Rebecca Browning Rankin, Municipal Reference Library of the City of New York, 1920-1952, published in 2003.

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We the People of the United States…

Archives Blogs

Thirty-one new United States naturalized citizens took the oath of allegiance on Constitution Day on Monday at the National Archives Rotunda in Washington, DC. citizens take the oath of allegiance at the Naturalization Ceremony held at the National Archives’ Rotunda in Washington, DC, on Constitution Day, September 17, 2018.

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Digital collections priorities, 2018-2019

Archives Blogs

People Not Property: Slave Deeds of North Carolina A collaborative endeavor between the UNCG University Libraries, North Carolina Division of Archives and Records, and North Carolina Registers of Deeds among others. Bryan School Annual Reports Digitize the Bryan School’s annual reports to the Provost, from 1969-70 to 2003-04.