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New book highlights the importance of libraries to those seeking sanctuary in the UK

CILIP

New book highlights the importance of libraries to those seeking sanctuary in the UK. However, libraries can provide refuge and support for people in these situations, whether directing them to local groups or in-house help.

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COVID-19 in local history web archives: What we collect and why

Archive-It

By Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Archive-It’s crawling machines churned with activity as our partners sought to preserve records of the microscopic forces moving their operations to makeshift home offices around the world. Archived blog post from the Queens Public Library’s collection.

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RMS Section Meeting: teasers!

The Schedule

Cultural heritage organizations like libraries, archives, and museums create, use, manage, and share records every day in the course of daily operations. Please join us in August! Tentative title: Records Management for Cultural Heritage Organizations.

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Survey reports skills in technology and Digital Preservation will be most desired in the next five years

Preservica

Ithaka S+R recently published a report based on findings from A*CENSUS II Archives Administrators Survey , which gathered data from 746 of the most senior archives leaders and decision-makers. With scalable storage, quick setup times and no need for complex IT assistance.

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Reporting back from the IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2021

Archive-It

by Jillian Lohndorf and Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivists for Archive-It. The IIPC Web Archiving Conference (WAC) was held June 15-16 virtually , with pre-recorded presentations made available beforehand, and speakers gathered by topic for live question and answer sessions. The conference opened with remarks from Claude D.

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e-Records 2017 – “Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed” Conference Recap

The Texas Record

The 2017 e-Records conference delivered on all fronts hosting a variety of vendors, local government and state agency representatives and, of course, plenty of staff from the two hosting state agencies: Department of Information Resources (DIR) and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC).

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Feature Spotlight: Internal Seeds Groups

Archive-It

by Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivist for Archive-It Seed groups have been around for a while, allowing partners to organize their seeds on their public collections’ pages at archive-it.org. In fact, any seed groups created after September 12, 2022 will not be visible on archive-it.org unless you choose to make it publicly visible.