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

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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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Collecting for continuity and for change: The web archiving experience in Westborough

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In 2017, our library applied for and received a grant to participate in the Community Webs program, designed to teach public libraries how to use web archiving tools and enable them to curate local history collections. Web archiving now enables us to collect the digital records of life in our town.

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Resourceful Records Managers! Courtney Bailey, Chair, SAA Records Management Section 2019-2020

The Schedule

And as a history student, I’d done a lot of research in archives, so it seemed a logical transition to consider archival work. I got an MSLS from the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, focusing on the archives and records management (ARM) track.