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Archives Month: Web Archive (WARC) File Format

The Texas Record

It’s October, which means that it is once again time to celebrate American Archives Month ! First on the docket: web archiving. When it comes to local government and state agency websites, retention periods will vary depending on the function and content of the information uploaded to the web. Challenges. The Basic Steps.

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Library and Archives Canada’s journey of discovery: modernising our digital preservation infrastructure using Preservica

Preservica

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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Texas Archives Month and Electronic Records Day

The Texas Record

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. The DIR Statewide Data Program overview offers ten short video segments based on the Data Management Book of Knowledge.

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Nixon in China: Audiovisual Records from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

Unwritten Record

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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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

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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Apprenticeships: supporting new talent in to libraries

CILIP

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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Honey, I blockchained the library

CILIP

Honey, I blockchained the library. Honey, I blockchained the library. Like writing a tightly coded video game that was small enough to fit onto a ZX81 RAM pack, or the original Unix operating system which took up only 16KB of memory. A new kind of library. What could that mean for libraries? shareholders?