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Documenting Support for Human Rights on Both Sides of the California-Mexico Border with Archive-It

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Once we made those decisions, our Processing Archivist pitched both ideas: a web collection that would preserve human rights websites focusing on the border with Baja California and another one that would document support for and settlement of refugees in San Diego County. Little did we imagine that both of our proposals would be accepted!

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Documenting Support for Human Rights on Both Sides of the California-Mexico Border with Archive-It

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Once we made those decisions, our Processing Archivist pitched both ideas: a web collection that would preserve human rights websites focusing on the border with Baja California and another one that would document support for and settlement of refugees in San Diego County. Little did we imagine that both of our proposals would be accepted!

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Archiving the Black Diaspora: Makiba J. Foster talks Community Webs with the Internet Archive

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by the Archive-It team. On April 7, 2021, the Internet Archive presented a discussion with Makiba J. Through her collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Community Webs program, she discussed how her work to document a protest movement led to her to build web archives related to the Black Diaspora.

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Archiving and describing mass tragedy: the Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada

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by Tammi Kim, Special Collections and Archives Technical Services Librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The staff at UNLV’s Special Collections and Archives were shocked and horri fied, and the impact of this tragic event has been shocking and surreal to the Las Vegas community.

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Archive-It Partner News, November 2017

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by the Archive-It team. The Community Webs cohort of public librarians kicking off their program at the Internet Archive on November 3. Watch this space and the Archive-It blog for updates from the cohort and Internet Archive staff on their progress, lessons-learned, and new open educational resources.

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A Stitch in Time: Preserving Websites Related to Sustainability in the Fashion Industry

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In 2017, eight tractor-trailers carrying over 5000 cubic feet of archival materials and tens of thousands of books arrived at Cornell. In order to document where the textile industry in the United States is now, we had to start with the websites of the textile and garment companies, both large and small, that still operate here.

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

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Acquisitions & Appraisal + Electronic Records Section Joint Section Meeting at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019 . 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. Author: Scott Kirycki.