The Texas Record

JUNE 15, 2018

We are now accepting presentation proposals from state government organizations (state agencies, universities or local governments), vendors and subject matter experts from various organizations to share both their challenges and successes with managing electronic records. Visit the conference website for more details.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 13, 2021

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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Archive-It

JANUARY 16, 2024

by Karl Blumenthal, Web Archivist The InfoTecarios podcast hosted a rich discussion about the opportunities, challenges, and new models for collaboratve digital scholarship using web archives with early adopters of the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH). Mellon Foundation and they continue their work through to the present.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Be sure to visit the conference webpage for more details about this virtual e-Records experience and to read about the exciting presentations we’ve selected this year. Registration for the 2021 e-Records Conference is now open to state agencies and local governments. Visit the conference website to register now.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Visit the conference website for more details about this virtual e-Records experience and to read about the exciting presentations we’ve selected this year. Registration for the 2020 e-Records Conference is now open to state agencies and local governments. Visit the conference website to register now. We know budgets are tight.

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Archive-It

APRIL 12, 2021

by the Archive-It team. On April 7, 2021, the Internet Archive presented a discussion with Makiba J. Foster, manager of the African American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) for Broward County Libraries. Foster discussed the important and impactful work of preserving Black culture found on the web.

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Archive-It

MAY 24, 2018

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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Archive-It

JUNE 30, 2021

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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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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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CILIP

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Facet Publishing announce the publication of Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future edited by Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras. Although a growing international activity, there has been little consideration of the impact of e-legal deposit on the 21st Century library, or on its present or future users.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Once again, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) have joined forces to bring you another outstanding selection of speakers sharing case studies and presentations.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Once again, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) have joined forces to bring you another outstanding selection of speakers sharing case studies and presentations.

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The Texas Record

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

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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Archive-It

JUNE 5, 2018

Three librarians from two Archive-It partner institutions shared their web archiving insights and sought feedback from their local colleagues at the fourth annual Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference. by Caron Rollins, Matt Huculak, and Dana McFarland. Leo Tolstoy: First web archivist? The collaborations will continue.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Getting to grips with Digital Transformation within library and information services can feel like a haphazard affair ? For libraries and information services, different challenges have had to be overcome ? Positioning library and information professionals at the heart of the process. Rob Green looks at what?s Being the ?human

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Archive-It

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

by Maura Seale , History Librarian, University of Michigan, and Steve Ammidown , Independent Researcher (Maura): The University of Michigan Library began a web archiving pilot project in 2018. In 2019, the web archiving team issued a call for additional collections and I proposed a new collection on popular romance fiction.

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Archive-It

MAY 16, 2018

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.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Be sure to visit the conference website to read about this year’s exciting presentations and exhibitors. But you better hurry! We have less than a 100 seats left. Register for this year’s conference here. Why Attend e-Records 2019. Government is transforming to meet its partners in this brave new digital world.

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The Schedule

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Email Archiving Comes of Age. This session was composed of lightning talks about various email archiving projects, including the first NHPRC electronic records case studies focused on email archiving. Kevin De Vorsey from NARA spoke on the National Archives ERM Policy guidance. The report is available here.

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The Schedule

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Acquisitions & Appraisal + Electronic Records Section Joint Section Meeting at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019 . The standing-room-only gathering examined the topic of digital appraisal through presentations and breakout sessions. Presentations. The next presentation was a lightning round on tools for born-digital appraisal?:

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Archive-It

MARCH 8, 2022

By Bridget Collings, Raven Germain, and Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivists for Archive-It. Many Archive-It partners are raising awareness against bias, stereotypes, and discrimination faced by women by documenting important feminist cultural heritage.

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Archive-It

APRIL 6, 2022

by Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivist for Archive-It. US Federal organizations’ web archiving programs were the hot topics for a Coffee Chat on March 29. In case you missed it, we’ll top you up on the conversation hosted by the Web Archiving Section (WAS) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA).

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Archive-It

JULY 12, 2023

by Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivist for Archive-It Notes are a convenient way to communicate with others working in the same Archive-It account, or even with yourself at a later date. I work on the Japan Disasters Digital Archive project (JDA) , sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

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Archive-It

JULY 12, 2023

by Tanya Ulmer, Web Archivist for Archive-It Notes are a convenient way to communicate with others working in the same Archive-It account, or even with yourself at a later date. I work on the Japan Disasters Digital Archive project (JDA) , sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

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The Schedule

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Guest post by Cathrine Giles, State Records Branch Manager, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. We can use “wicked problems” to frame a number of challenges the archival profession faces in order to identify where our professional knowledge can be applied to wicked problems challenging society.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Once again, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) have joined forces to bring you another outstanding selection of speakers sharing case studies and presentations. It’s all about tackling tough challenges to manage those electronic records.

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Archive-It

JANUARY 16, 2019

You can now view the collection via Archive-It here: [link]. Archived presidential candidacy website of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Archive-It was interested in the proposal and we quickly signed a Memorandum of Understanding, giving us a defined allowance and time frame for the archiving of the websites.

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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 At the National Archives, Record Group 35 is where you will locate Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933 – 1953. Local Photo ID: 35-GE-3B-3.

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Archive-It

APRIL 12, 2023

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.

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Archive-It

JANUARY 8, 2019

By Anthony Vaver, Local History Librarian and Archivist, Westborough Public Library. Still, I struggled to come up with a reason why someone from our growing South Asian population should visit our public library’s local history room. Local history at our library is accordingly going through a bit of a renaissance.

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The Schedule

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Author: Cathrine Giles Manager, State Records Branch, Archives and Records Management Division, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. The SC Department of Archives and History had made multiple efforts to implement schedules for different governors but were ultimately unable to do so.

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Archive-It

MARCH 29, 2023

Community Webs advances the capacity for community-focused memory organizations to build web and digital archives documenting local histories and underrepresented voices. These records, often in the form of images with notes, are uploaded to websites set up by research centers, libraries, archives, and museums.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MARCH 18, 2017

The wrong envelope was delivered to the presenters of the most important award in the program. Each year, we have excellent conferences–ARMA, AIIM, MER–I’ve attended them all multiple times, and they can be counted on for great sessions, engaging vendor floors, insights, leading edge case studies, keynote inspiration, and collegiality.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 16, 2018

by Dylan Gaffney, Forbes Library. Whether documenting the indie music scene of the 1990s, researching the history of local abolitionists and formerly enslaved peoples in the 1840s, or helping patrons research the early LGBT movement in the area, I am frequently reminded of what was not saved or is not physically present in our collections.

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Archive-It

JUNE 16, 2022

In May 2021, the Society of American Archivists’ Web Archiving Section hosted a chat about web accessibility. Throughout the session, a recurring question that arose was how accessible web archives are. How accessible are archived websites? Websites are currently archived using the Web ARChive “WARC” file format.

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Archive-It

MAY 16, 2024

Guest post by Julie Lynch (she/her), Northside Neighborhood History Collection, Chicago Public Library This post is part of a series written by members of the Community Webs program. KACS newsletter, 2007 Summer The project was able to move further along following the reorganization in December 2020 of all CPL archival repositories (Vivian G.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 4, 2020

His speech reminded me of the importance of the archival aspect of our profession and the immense responsibility that comes with it ( slides from Richard?s s presentation ). What could I bring to the conversation working as I did as a library assistant in a rural school? But how wrong I was! I liked Kimberley?s

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