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Unwrapping the Archives

The Texas Record

When most people think of archives, the first thing that comes to mind is Indiana Jones swinging on vines and storing artifacts in giant rooms. While that is an interesting popular image, the archives and archivists here at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) are the protectors of documented history.

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Archive-It Partner News, December 2019

Archive-It

by the Archive-It team. Next open call and year-in-review with Archive-It. All are welcome and invited to join the next open call with the Internet Archive’s Director of Web Archiving, Jefferson Bailey, and Archive-It’s Senior Program Manager, Lori Donovan, at 10AM Pacific (1PM Eastern, 6PM GMT) on Wednesday, January 22.

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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

Unwritten Record

You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). Researchers for the most part came to Washington, D.C.,

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Archive-It Partner News, October 2021

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by the Archive-It team. 60+ public libraries and cultural heritage organizations from across the US, Canada, and internationally have joined Community Webs to document local history and the lives of their patrons through web archiving. Meet them and learn much more about the program here on the Internet Archive blog.

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The U.S. Forest Service Presents: Winter Olympics

Unwritten Record

The 1960 games marked the first time American households could watch events in a live broadcast format. The film Winter Olympics is from Record Group 16: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture and was produced by the Department of Agriculture to document the contributions of the U.S.

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TVA: 90 Years Old and Still Going Strong

Unwritten Record

Though most of the records relating to the Tennessee Valley Authority reside in other departments and facilities within the National Archives, the Cartographic Branch has nine different series under the heading of RG 142: Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1918-2000. Maps Relating to Agriculture. Maps Relating to Agriculture.

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

Archive-It

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.