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e-Records 2017 – “Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed” Conference Recap

The Texas Record

The 2017 e-Records conference delivered on all fronts hosting a variety of vendors, local government and state agency representatives and, of course, plenty of staff from the two hosting state agencies: Department of Information Resources (DIR) and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC).

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Archiving and describing mass tragedy: the Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada

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by Tammi Kim, Special Collections and Archives Technical Services Librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Tragedy struck Las Vegas, Nevada on October 1, 2017, when a lone gunman opened fire onto a crowd of twenty-two thousand people attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival, injuring over five hundred people and killing fifty-eight.

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Archive-It Partner News, November 2017

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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 and public knowledge: Collaborating with Vancouver Island Archive-It partners

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Three librarians from two Archive-It partner institutions shared their web archiving insights and sought feedback from their local colleagues at the fourth annual Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference. Wildfires 2017 to which several universities contributed seeds, and UVic’s B.C. Leo Tolstoy: First web archivist?

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Starting small but dreaming big: A beginner’s journey to web archiving

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This blog post was adapted and modified from my presentation at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference on June 16, 2021. I had no prior web archiving experience, but the official NAHO website was scheduled to come down by the end of that year and needed a long-term home. Screenshot from the NAHO web archive.

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

CILIP

Chapters draw on evidence gathered from real-world case studies produced in collaboration with leading libraries, researchers and practitioners including Bodleian Libraries, National Library of Sweden and the National Archives of Zimbabwe. Paul Gooding is a Senior Lecturer in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow.

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Feature Spotlight: Notes

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by Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivist for Archive-It Notes are a convenient way to communicate with others working in the same Archive-It account, or even with yourself at a later date. I work on the Japan Disasters Digital Archive project (JDA) , sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.