Archives Blogs

JUNE 26, 2020

In this second installment of Library History with Heritage & University archives, we’ll be looking at the trajectory of the Library School since its reorganization in 1947. We’ll also be exploring how Special Collections & Archives has grown since its establishment in 1956.

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CILIP

AUGUST 20, 2019

An Island Library and Archives explored. An Island Library and Archives explored. The present day Manx Museum and National Trust is supported by the Isle of Man Government and its Trustees are appointed by Tynwald. This integrated museum, archives and ? Manx National Heritage and iMuseum.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Each October, Texas joins archival repositories across the nation to celebrate Archives Month and promote the preservation of our country’s documentary heritage. Want to learn how to preserve your personal digital archive? The Texas State Library and Archives Commission has a workshop for that!

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here in the Still Picture Branch at the National Archives, we have many photographs within our holdings that show many different ways that breakfast has been consumed throughout history. Take a look below at some of the various images found when searching the National Archives Catalog for different terms.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 19, 2023

by the Archive-It Team From our team to yours, wishing you all the best this Holiday Season!! Dr. Emily Lynell Edwards’ and Dr. Rosario Rogel-Salazar‘s teams were some of the first users of the Archives Research Compute Hub ( ARCH ). They joined Web Archivist Karl Blumenthal on a panel at the DLF Forum in St. Louis in November.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

On World Digital Preservation Day 2018, Sylvain Bélanger, Director General of Digital Operations and Preservation at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) discusses operating at scale, the challenges of preserving high volume born-digital content, and giving Canadians greater access to Canada’s continuing memory.

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

(Local ID: 111-SC-387947) This post was created in collaboration with Cecilia Figliuolo, Archives Technician in the Still Picture Branch. Two guests share a moment at the Christmas Cocktail Party sponsored by the National Archives Association. Check out the National Archives Catalog and spend some time researching the things you love!

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Hanzo Learning Center

JULY 11, 2018

The Welsh Government's Information and Archive Service carried out a mini-pilot project to explore making tweets available via its Library Management System.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

As the Hesburgh Libraries move toward "all-digital assets", digital preservation is key. The Hesburgh Libraries is a network of locations across campus that offers expertise, services, resources, and spaces that are integral throughout the full life cycle of teaching and research.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Asked why he chose the Civil Service above other areas of librarianship, David says: “It is just so interesting… it puts you in the centre of constantly changing challenges while offering unparalleled opportunities to move between librarianship, records management, knowledge management, information governance throughout your career.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. The threat actors leverage spear-phishing emails to deliver archive files utilizing DLL side-loading schemes. ’ Each functionality is assigned to a different message type that is sent to the C2 server. .”

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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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Preservica

JULY 18, 2019

Colorado and Alaska State Archives are the latest government agencies to join the growing community of public sector organizations using Preservica’s cloud-hosted (SaaS) active digital preservation platform to meet state mandates and public records laws to preserve and provide greater access to permanent and historical government records.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

In a nutshell, this is information governance. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information. But how is information governance any different than records management? Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

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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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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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The Schedule

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Upon needing to vacate a building as the lease was ending, we explored the “archives” of the bank. We had twenty library style shelves full of stuff – everything from late 1800s bank ledgers and corporate china to newspaper clippings. This was the perfect opportunity to put my RIM and archives skills to the test.

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The Texas Record

JULY 31, 2018

Devices used by Governor Rick Perry to create electronic records [1] This is the first in a two-part series exploring the Texas Digital Archive (TDA) with Electronic Records Specialist Mark Myers of the Archives and Information Services (ARIS) division at TSLAC. Thus was born the Texas Digital Archive.

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Preservica

AUGUST 1, 2019

Preservica , the market leader in SaaS-based active digital preservation, has been selected by the Colorado State Archives (CSA) to preserve and streamline access to all mandated permanent records generated by Colorado government agencies, divisions, courts, special districts and other entities. Preservica at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019.

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CILIP

JANUARY 24, 2020

Honey, I blockchained the library. Honey, I blockchained the library. A new kind of library. What could that mean for libraries? And for academic libraries and publishers, could micropayments per journal article supersede today?s What would the library look like as a DAO? in a new kind of library ?

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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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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

JULY 20, 2022

by the Archive-It team. Archive-It partners and friends are invited to join us in-person at: Archive-It Partner Meeting in Boston – The annual meeting of Archive-It partners will return in-person this year on August 24, 2022 , at MIT Libraries. Join the Archive-It Open Call. Register here.

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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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Preservica

MARCH 7, 2019

Technology analyst firm Gartner underscored the challenge in a recent report: “In many enterprises, an increasingly chaotic "sprawl" of content from a growing number of sources makes it difficult for application leaders to implement an effective strategy for the governance and use of content.” Visit: preservica.com Twitter: @Preservica.

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The Texas Record

APRIL 10, 2023

The records management assistance team at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission welcomes our newest analysts, Sahar Arafat-Ray and Sebastian Loza! Read more about Sahar who is now the point of contact for local governments in the West-North region of Texas.

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Ryan is an AV Archivist at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Local Identifier: WHPO-8498-17) White House Photo Office Collection, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Local Identifier: WHPO-8555-09A) White House Photo Office Collection, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

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IG Guru

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Check out the link here.

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Preservica

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The month of October marks American Archives Month (#AmericanArchivesMonth) across the US that recognizes the collaborative efforts of archiving professionals and repositories across North America, highlighting the importance of preserving historic records for generations to come. South Carolina Electronic Records Archives.

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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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Collibra

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Collibra Assessments enables data privacy stewards to design, publish and archive assessment templates. The key reason to leverage the internal Collibra team for this business process governance was the ability to create asynchronous governance check-points (gates) with Assessments at its core. We call it NPI.

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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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Archive-It

APRIL 6, 2022

In response, the Internet Archive’s Archive-It service launched a COVID-19 Web Archiving Special Campaign starting in April 2020 to allow existing Archive-It partners to increase their web archiving capacity or new partners to join to collect COVID-19 related content.

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Unwritten Record

MARCH 11, 2021

Today I am thrilled to tell you about something we’ve been working on: Films of State, a three day online conference focused on government films and NARA’s holdings, scheduled for April 7-9, 2021. Moving Images at the National Archives And Records Administration. Registration is free and open to all.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Terence: Since our partnership began more than seven years ago, Preservica has played an ever-increasing role in helping the library improve digital preservation of collections to ensure their future accessibility. Beginning in 2008, the Library developed an in-house solution for processing content from physical carriers.

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CILIP

JUNE 14, 2023

Highly skilled and predominantly female - Workforce Mapping 2023 Survey results out now The libraries and information sector has a highly experienced and predominantly female workforce, with 40 per cent of staff having more than 20 years of work experience, according to data gathered for the Workforce Mapping 2023 survey.

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Archive-It

APRIL 20, 2022

by the Archive-It team. Collective COVID-19 Web Archive portal. Samples of four archived COVID-19 websites. Help us build a COVID-19 Web Archive access portal! Read more about it on the Archive-It blog. Archive-It partners, Community Webs members, and digital archivists of all kinds are welcome to join!

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