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

Archive-It

The San Diego Refugee Collection was the first of our website proposals selected by Archive-It in October 2019. To that end, we chose to archive the websites of nine locally based refugee organizations. Thanks to our Processing Archivist’s initiative and her development of the proposals, the Archive-it contest made it all possible!

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

Archive-It

The San Diego Refugee Collection was the first of our website proposals selected by Archive-It in October 2019. To that end, we chose to archive the websites of nine locally based refugee organizations. Thanks to our Processing Archivist’s initiative and her development of the proposals, the Archive-it contest made it all possible!

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Analyze your Web Archives at Scale: The Archives Unleashed Cloud

Archive-It

by Samantha Fritz, Project Manager, and Ian Milligan, Project Lead, for Archives Unleashed at the University of Waterloo. Archive-It provides a fantastic service to curate, collect, and preserve content from the Web. Enter the Archives Unleashed Project. Why do we care so much about Web Archives?

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Women’s History Month: Web archive collections that #BreakTheBias

Archive-It

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. The number that poured in during the next few days was in the thousands!

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Advocating for digital preservation through better corporate governance

Preservica

Last month I attended the ICA Section for Business Archives meeting which was held at the Levi Strauss HQ in San Francisco. Several archivists were keen to discuss the best place to start engaging with other business functions to advocate for a dedicated digital archiving and preservation solution. Corporate governance.

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Enhance existing knowledge and information skills with Generative AI

CILIP

Enhance existing knowledge and information skills with Generative AI CILIP member, Josiah Richardson, is a Senior Library Assistant at An NHS trust in the Knowledge and Library Service based on the hospital site, whilst also doing the Level 3 Library, Information and Archive Services Assistant CILIP NVQ.