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Spotlight: Photographs Documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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According to John Salmond, author of The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942: A New Deal Case Study , “during its life span of nine years more than 2.5 Proper credit lines are encouraged in the interest of good documentation. Caption: CCC Enrollees Repairing a Truck at the Yosemite Auto Repair Shop in California.

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

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The Best Practices Subcommittee is documenting collection development policies, and the results will be available on the section’s microsite along with the popular Zotero bibliography of appraisal resources. The lightning round was followed by a case study of a student project on appraising electronic state agency records?.

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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.

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

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We have little-league baseball records from the 1970s, but I had few ways to similarly document the the town’s new cricket club because it mostly functions online. We have church records that go back to the founding of our town, but I had no mechanism to document the building of the new Sikh Temple in our community.