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Harvesting Preservica metadata to your library discovery layer using APIs - Case Study: Preservica to Ex Libris' Primo

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They were discoverable in our library catalog Ex Libris Primo but would potentially be behind a paywall depending on who the viewer was. Challenges ProQuest supplied the theses in PDF format on hard drives in batches, each batch was accompanied by a file of metadata in MARC format. The final step was to surface it in Primo.

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Describing web archives: Learning from Archive-It partners and friends

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Partners, collaborators, and peers gathered this week for Describing Web Archives , the latest in Archive-It’s Advanced Training series of webinars , and the second (with Access to Archive-It Collections ) to invite web archivists to take the lead in demonstrating their approaches to access and discovery.

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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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Learn more about web archiving with Archive-It Advanced Training

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by Jillian Lohndorf, Web Archivist for Archive-It. In particular, the Archive-It Advanced Training series of webinars features lessons, technology updates, and more tips and tricks from the Internet Archive’s staff and web archiving partners around the world! Descriptive practices for web archives varies widely.

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

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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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Starting small but dreaming big: A beginner’s journey to web archiving

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by Yoo Young Lee, Head, Information Technology, University of Ottawa Library. This blog post was adapted and modified from my presentation at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference on June 16, 2021. Screenshot from the NAHO web archive.

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Archive-It Partner News, May 2018

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by the Archive-It team. Join us at the annual Archive-It Partner Meeting. We hope you can join us for an afternoon partner meeting on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 preceding ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018 , the joint annual meeting of CoSA, NAGARA, and SAA. May 30: Beginners’ Web Archiving Workshop at METRO – New York, NY.