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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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Sustainable lessons for design

CILIP

Connecting town and gown through the library To Celebrate Green Libraries week, we take a look back at an article first published in Information Professional in June 2023. Wright & Wright Architects have worked on a number of major library, archive and gallery projects, with a focus on sustainable design.

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Archives Records 2019 RMS Annual Meeting

The Schedule

Along with the ballot, we included some survey questions for the section, and we received some good feedback that will help us shape our priorities for the coming year. In the Other category, Digital Archives Specialist was most common. The people of Austin recovered the government archives and preserved Austin as the capital.

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Advocacy and Records Management

The Schedule

I particularly like Gartner’s official definition: “Information governance is the specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archival and deletion of information. Perhaps with the vision-setting Steering Committee?

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Creating connections through shared history

CILIP

About the Library. The 2nd Air Division USAAF Memorial Library is a unique organisation in the UK ? it is both a war memorial and a public library. One of our challenges is very simply explaining what we are to our British audience because the concept of a memorial library is so quintessentially American.

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A Boy’s Song

Archives Blogs

This collection – a handful of boxes –surveys the lives of several generations in a British family that lived and worked and fought wars in India, England, France, and Iraq over the course of about 150 years. Image courtesy the East Sussex Libraries; see their Flickr page for an abundance of images of Hastings-St. Road in St.

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Carl Louis Gregory, Founder of Film Preservation at NARA

Unwritten Record

Before the National Archives held more than half a million reels of film, nearly 200,000 videos, and over 300,000 sound recordings originating from dozens of government agencies (and decades before the existence of the National Archives) Carl Louis Gregory was a motion picture cameraman dedicated to the evolution of the field.