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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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The U.S. Forest Service Presents: Winter Olympics

Unwritten Record

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. Forest Service (an agency of the Department of Agriculture) to the Olympics. ” Clip taken from 16-P-1486, Winter Olympics.

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A Survey of Spanish Posters and Related Graphics at the National Archives

Unwritten Record

The National Archives Catalog includes digitized posters and graphics with Spanish text that run the gamut from World War II propaganda posters to contemporary public service announcements. You can browse the posters in the National Archives Catalog and use the filters on the side-bar to refine by record group.

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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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Caretakers of the Sky: The Wright Brothers and Recording the Aerial Age

Unwritten Record

To celebrate this incredible milestone, we would like to present records related to the Wright Brothers and their achievement. Photograph of the Wright Brothers’ Camp in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,” Records of the US Army Air Forces, Record Group 18, National Archives Local Identifier: 18-WP-48625.

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

The Schedule

Acquisitions & Appraisal + Electronic Records Section Joint Section Meeting at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019 . The standing-room-only gathering examined the topic of digital appraisal through presentations and breakout sessions. Presentations. The next presentation was a lightning round on tools for born-digital appraisal?:

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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.