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Archive-It Partner News, April 2024

Archive-It

by the Archive-It team Community News Save the Date for 2024 Partner Meeting Archive-It’s annual Partner Meeting returns in person on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 for a half day in Chicago, just ahead of the 2024 ARCHIVES*RECORDS Society of American Archivists (SAA) conference. We hope you can join us!

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Connecting town and gown through the library

CILIP

Connecting town and gown through the library How to help a community explore its slave-trading history: Lesley English, Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University Library, explains how the library plays a key role in building bridges between town and gown. We connect, we innovate, we include.”

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Interview With Mark Myers on the Texas Digital Archive

The Texas Record

Devices used by Governor Rick Perry to create electronic records [1] This is the first in a two-part series exploring the Texas Digital Archive (TDA) with Electronic Records Specialist Mark Myers of the Archives and Information Services (ARIS) division at TSLAC. Thus was born the Texas Digital Archive.

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Archive-It Partner News, May 2022

Archive-It

by the Archive-It team. Internet Archive Canada will host an in-person web and digital archiving meetup on June 14th at its new headquarters in Vancouver, BC. Archive-It partners, Community Webs members, and digital archivists of all kinds are welcome to join! Archival Research Computing Hub (ARCH) Research Paper.

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Telling Untold Stories Through the Emmett Till Archives

Archives Blogs

In 2015, Florida State University (FSU) Libraries Special Collections & Archives established the Emmett Till Archives in collaboration with Emmett Till scholar Davis Houck , filmmaker Keith Beauchamp , and author Devery Anderson. FSU Libraries. Emmett Till Archives Research Guide.

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Highly skilled and predominantly female - Workforce Mapping 2023 Survey results out now

CILIP

Highly skilled and predominantly female - Workforce Mapping 2023 Survey results out now The libraries and information sector has a highly experienced and predominantly female workforce, with 40 per cent of staff having more than 20 years of work experience, according to data gathered for the Workforce Mapping 2023 survey.

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Community Webs joins the Digital Public Library of America

Archive-It

by the Archive-It team. Internet Archive’s Community Webs program is delighted to announce a partnership with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to ingest metadata from the over 700 publicly available Community Webs web archive collections into DPLA. Read the full story on the Internet Archive blog.