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Community Webs to bring web archiving to public libraries

Archive-It

Are you a public librarian interested in expanding your local history collections to include web archives? The Community Webs program is offered by the Internet Archive in partnership with WebJunction, and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. If so, you’re in luck!

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Mobile Libraries: Culture on the Go

Unwritten Record

Today’s post is written by Joseph Smith, who volunteers at the National Archives at College Park. National Bookmobile Day is April 22, part of National Library Week (April 19-25). . But sometimes a patron is unable to access a library due to limitations of location or distance. Libraries, Mobile — Third Army La.

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Nor Is This All

The Texas Record

In late September, we lost an iconic figure in the library and archives field. By the time I matriculated into The University of Texas’s School of Information in 2013, I knew that it had a powerhouse archival and records enterprise curriculum. The substance of his talk concerned his time as state archivist at TSLAC.

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Archive-It Partner News, November 2017

Archive-It

by the Archive-It team. The Community Webs cohort of public librarians kicking off their program at the Internet Archive on November 3. Watch this space and the Archive-It blog for updates from the cohort and Internet Archive staff on their progress, lessons-learned, and new open educational resources. Community News.

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Web archiving climate change: A call for community documentation strategy

Archive-It

When I got involved several years ago, I quickly learned that archiving the web poses new questions with each opportunity. I find that “We have this amazing tool that can archive the internet!” It was suggested that we introduce web archiving climate change as a topic for discussion at the annual Archive-It Partner Meeting in Portland.

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Operation Homecoming Activities at Sheppard Air Force Base

Unwritten Record

PUBLICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS FURNISHED BY THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES STILL PICTURE BRANCH-RRSS Generally, copies of photographic records held by the National Archives may be published without special permission or additional fees. The National Archives does not grant exclusive or non-exclusive publication privileges.

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How do librarians oppose knowledge destruction?

CILIP

As the senior executive of the Bodleian Libraries, Richard heads one of the oldest libraries in Europe. general carnage of institutional libraries in the middle decades of the 16th century? and he had presented a volume of his own works to the library with a poem in honour of the Bodleian. But, despite the ?very