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

CILIP

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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Archive-It Partner News, November 2017

Archive-It

To join us for updates on all things Archive-It in Q3 2017, simply point your web browsers at call time to: [link]. Take the NDSA 2017 Web Archiving Survey. Any United States organization involved in web archiving or in the process of planning a web archive is encouraged to take the survey before it closes on November 17, 2017.

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

Archive-It

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. Photo by Aaron Mayes (Curator for Visual Materials, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives).

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

Archive-It

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. Emerging roles and relationships for Vancouver Island libraries, culture and memory institutions in regional and national web archiving.

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

The Schedule

During the summers when I was teaching I often participated in professional development workshops, and I was fortunate enough to travel to a number of presidential libraries. workshops for government employees about records management and public records law. What led you to choose your current career in records management?

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

Archive-It

By Anthony Vaver, Local History Librarian and Archivist, Westborough Public Library. Still, I struggled to come up with a reason why someone from our growing South Asian population should visit our public library’s local history room. Local history at our library is accordingly going through a bit of a renaissance.