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SAA Austin Recap #2! Acquisitions & Appraisal & Electronic Records Section Joint Section Meeting!

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Acquisitions & Appraisal + Electronic Records Section Joint Section Meeting at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019 . The next presentation was a lightning round on tools for born-digital appraisal?: Brunnhilde is a characterization tool for directories and disk images. Author: Scott Kirycki.

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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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Eggplant Activism: Philadelphia Community Gardens and COVID-19

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Community gardens are an important part of our Commonwealth’s food and agricultural system,” Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said. On Wednesday, March 22, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation declared that gardens were life-sustaining businesses and were permitted to operate during the emergency. July 23, 2020.