CILIP

JUNE 13, 2023

Connecting town and gown through the library How to help a community explore its slave-trading history: Lesley English, Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University Library, explains how the library plays a key role in building bridges between town and gown. We connect, we innovate, we include.”

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

International library leaders explore the purpose and future of libraries. Facet Publishing announces the publication of Bold Minds: Library leadership in a time of disruption edited by Margaret Weaver and Leo Appleton. Are librarians and libraries relevant in the 21st century?

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Archive-It

MARCH 14, 2022

by the Archive-It team. Archive-It is offering free sponsored accounts to organizations interested in archiving Ukrainian web resources. To learn more, contact us at ait [at] archive [dot] org. Learn all about them on the Archive-It blog. NYU Archives and Special Collections – Happy Anniversary Web Archives!

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Archive-It

MAY 18, 2022

by the Archive-It team. Internet Archive Canada will host an in-person web and digital archiving meetup on June 14th at its new headquarters in Vancouver, BC. Archive-It partners, Community Webs members, and digital archivists of all kinds are welcome to join! Archival Research Computing Hub (ARCH) Research Paper.

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Archive-It

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

by the Archive-It team. Unlocking the Research Potential of Web Archives. Archive-It joined forces with the Archives Unleashed project and an international community of scholars to explore web archive data at scale. Together we’re developing “ARCH,” the Archival Research Compute Hub.

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Unwritten Record

APRIL 14, 2020

Today’s post is written by Joseph Smith, who volunteers at the National Archives at College Park. National Bookmobile Day is April 22, part of National Library Week (April 19-25). . But sometimes a patron is unable to access a library due to limitations of location or distance. Libraries, Mobile — Third Army La.

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Archive-It

JUNE 30, 2017

Are you a public librarian interested in expanding your local history collections to include web archives? The Community Webs program is offered by the Internet Archive in partnership with WebJunction, and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. If so, you’re in luck!

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Preservica’s Cloud Edition for Consortia delivers value of complete Preservica offering for budget-strapped Academic Libraries. FLO helps its members with library systems, resource sharing and technical support, as well as fostering community collaboration and statewide recognition.

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The Schedule

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The colloquium will highlight three of our favorite experts in the archives, records, and information fields. Sophia McGuire, Vice-Chair Sophia has been working in government records and archives for the majority of her nine years working professionally. Records Management Annual Section Meeting, July 2024!

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) are offering a bountiful harvest of free and low-cost learning opportunities in October. 10/03 DIR Technology Showcase- Data Storage & Digital Archives. Mark your calendars! LIVE EVENTS. Hosted by DIR.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 20, 2021

by the Archive-It team. 60+ public libraries and cultural heritage organizations from across the US, Canada, and internationally have joined Community Webs to document local history and the lives of their patrons through web archiving. Meet them and learn much more about the program here on the Internet Archive blog.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Apprenticeships: supporting new talent in to libraries. Last summer Kirklees Libraries recruited two new apprentices as part of a council-wide programme to develop and deliver apprentice opportunities. Among the vanguard of library apprenticeships schemes is Kirklees Libraries in West Yorkshire. Career opportunities.

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Archive-It

MARCH 7, 2018

by the Archive-It team. The program will provide education, applied training, cohort network development, and web archiving services for a group of public librarians to develop expertise in web archiving for the purpose of local memory collecting. Read the full story on the Internet Archive’s blog >>>

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Archive-It

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

by the Archive-It team. COVID-19 web archives take shape. Archive-It partners continue to collect and preserve the stories of a global pandemic in their local communities. Sonoma Index-Tribune : ‘Sonoma Responds’ archive program launches online. American Libraries : Collecting Coronavirus Stories. Community News.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 15, 2020

by the Archive-It team. Public libraries play a critical role in building community-oriented archives and these collections are particularly important in recording the impact of unprecedented events on the lives of local citizens. Extensive training and educational resources provided by professional staff.

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Archive-It

JANUARY 14, 2021

by the Archive-It team. New opportunity for public libraries. We’re inviting 150+ more public libraries to join the Community Webs cohort of web archiving partners. These quarterly open calls include the latest updates and discussion about web archiving and digital preservation technologies and service developments.

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Archive-It

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

and education with digital collections more accessible we are introducing ARCHWay – a free to use ARCH service tier. With ARCHWay, any individual can begin exploring web archive collections computationally using ARCH – analyzing, generating, and publishing research data from digital collections.

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Archive-It

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

by the Archive-It team. Wayne State University Libraries. Next open call with Archive-It. All are welcome and invited to join the next open call with the Internet Archive’s Director of Web Archiving, Jefferson Bailey, and Senior Program Manager, Lori Donovan, at 10AM Pacific (1PM Eastern, 5PM GMT) on Wednesday, April 15.

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CILIP

JANUARY 27, 2020

Dominic Cummings: Libraries are ?desperately Dominic Cummings: Libraries are ?desperately DURING the 2019 General Election Boris Johnson said he loved libraries and wanted to invest in opening more of them, but added: ?We His special adviser, Dominic Cummings, has no such conditions attached to his support for libraries.

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Archive-It

JULY 8, 2020

by the Archive-It team. The Archive-It team is growing! Three Web Archivists (and alumnae of the Internet Archive’s digitization program in Canada) and a Program Manager have joined the team, as we continue to build out and provide new support to our expanding list of web archiving partners.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 22, 2019

by the Archive-It team. Sharing software feature ideas with Internet Archive Engineering Manager James Kafader and Senior Program Manager Lori Donovan, at the annual Archive-It Partner Meeting in Austin. Next open call with Archive-It. Internet Archive Web Services Partner Meeting : September 20 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world. Annual Libraries Week celebrations (7-12 October 2019) will showcase how libraries have transformed their digital offer, featuring events and activities in more than 1,000 libraries across the UK. 500 to donate to a library of your choice.

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Archive-It

JULY 17, 2023

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. The University of San Diego is part of the Linda Vista neighborhood where many Vietnamese refugees settled after the Vietnam War.

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Archive-It

JULY 17, 2023

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. The University of San Diego is part of the Linda Vista neighborhood where many Vietnamese refugees settled after the Vietnam War.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

It emerged this week, according to the New York City Department of Education, that data from a further 381,000 students was also compromised in this incident. Data breached: 1,201,000 people’s data. Apparently, the data belongs to tens of thousands of Australians.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 22, 2019

by the Archive-It team. Sign up for Archive-It Office Hours. Archive-It Office Hours are here! Partners can sign up for a 20-minute one-on-one session online with a Web Archivist from the Internet Archive and talk through their questions about accounts, collections, crawls, and more. Take your web archives to go.

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Archives Blogs

JULY 1, 2020

The National Archives celebrates Independence Day with musical performances, a dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence, and history-related family activities on July 4th, 2019 in Washington, DC. Join us as we host a virtual Independence Day celebration on July 4, 2020, in partnership with the National Archives Foundation.

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Preservica

JUNE 25, 2019

Preservica, market leaders in active digital preservation, has announced the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) , part of SOAS University of London , will use its cloud-hosted digital preservation and discovery platform to safeguard and increase access to their extensive multimedia collection of endangered languages.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

by the Archive-It team. Mellon Foundation for “Community Webs: A National Network of Public Library Web Archives Documenting Local History & Underrepresented Groups,” an nationwide expansion of the program to include a minimum of 2 public libraries in each of the 50 United States, plus additional local history organizations in U.S

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Preservica

DECEMBER 7, 2022

They were discoverable in our library catalog Ex Libris Primo but would potentially be behind a paywall depending on who the viewer was. Click below to watch the replay of this educational webinar. Our library catalog is open access and is available online to see in action. The final step was to surface it in Primo.

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Preservica

MARCH 14, 2018

Oxford, London UK and Boston MA, March 14 2018: The Sainsbury Archive, which charts the growth and history of one of the UK’s largest supermarkets, has chosen Preservica’s AWS cloud-hosted digital preservation platform to actively preserve invaluable digital assets relating to the company’s operations.

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Archive-It

JULY 19, 2023

by the Archiving & Data Services team Since 2020 the Internet Archive has been hard at work developing an exciting new service – ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub). After a year of private beta use, including by many Archive-It pilot partners, ARCH is now released as a publicly available service!

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Archive-It

JULY 19, 2023

by the Archiving & Data Services team Since 2020 the Internet Archive has been hard at work developing an exciting new service – ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub). After a year of private beta use, including by many Archive-It pilot partners, ARCH is now released as a publicly available service!

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Archive-It

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

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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The Schedule

APRIL 20, 2018

Today’s post is mainly in response to “ Digital Media and the Case of the Missing Archives ,” written by Danielle Tcholakian who in turn seems to have been inspired by an article in the Columbia Journalism Review. The expectation of action on the part of institutions such as the Library of Congress was frustrating.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 18, 2021

s library and information association and the Archives & Records Association (ARA) have jointly convened a Workforce Data Consortium (please see below for a full list of partners) to fund a Workforce Mapping Survey of the library, archives, records, information and knowledge sector. Invitation to Tender ?

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