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

The Schedule

The lightning round was followed by a case study of a student project on appraising electronic state agency records?. Working groups begin with the principle that everyone’s knowledge is valuable. Rather than one person deciding what to do, all make suggestions.

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CCC Days at RoleModel Software: Part 2

Role Model Software

Then, the team tagged RoleModel’s software case studies with the titles they came up with; things like “Manufacturing”, “Healthcare”, and “Agriculture”, among others. Each group was hard at work over the 2+ days, with varying levels of progress.

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Spotlight: Photographs Documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Unwritten Record

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 Original Caption: “Group of CCC boys from Idaho just arrived in camp near Andersonville, Tennessee. Local Photo ID: 35-GE-3B-3. ” Date: 7/15/1933.

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

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In 2013, a group of sixty people packed into a venue designed for forty in order to see a collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century town records that had just been found in the Westborough Town Clerk’s vault. By Anthony Vaver, Local History Librarian and Archivist, Westborough Public Library. We love our history in Westborough!