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Coal Mining in Alaska: Coal Fields of the Alaska Engineering Commission

Unwritten Record

Mining has been a vital part of Alaska’s economy for hundreds of years. Often when we think of mining in Alaska, we think of gold mining and the gold rush of the late 1800s. An English trader named Captain Nathaniel Portlock first found coal at Coal Cove (presently Port Graham) on the Kenai Peninsula in 1786.

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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

Unwritten Record

You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). Researchers for the most part came to Washington, D.C.,

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Do You Have the Right Stuff to Transition to Information Governance?

ARMA International

As memorialized in the book The Right Stuff , test pilots then had to decide whether to transition into an uncertain-yet-vaguely-familiar new career or continue along their present path. Follow this trajectory and you’ll push the envelope toward information governance (IG) and position yourself as a Very Important Person in your enterprise.

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Archive-It Partner News, September 2018

Archive-It

by the Archive-It team. Archive-It at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. Archive-It 2018 Partner Meeting resources are now online. Thanks to everyone who made August’s Archive-It partner meeting at the National Zoo such a fun success! Explore Archive-It collections with Archives Unleashed. “Do

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Spotlight: Photographs Documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Unwritten Record

In fact, photographs documenting CCC activities and companies are scattered throughout the United States and are housed within the collections of state libraries and archives, university libraries and archives, and within the collections of local historical societies. ” Local Photo ID: 35-TA-9. ”Date: 5/1936.

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Wilmington on the Web

Archive-It

Community Webs advances the capacity for community-focused memory organizations to build web and digital archives documenting local histories and underrepresented voices. Most Archive-It partners are universities, museums and large libraries, and being in their company was a little daunting to me initially. Wilmington Dam (present).

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Everteam and Technology Vs Corruption

Everteam

The world is leaning towards digital transformation and automated processes in its government transactions, aiming to improve the communication between citizens and public institutions. This Anti-corruption software is developed specifically to detect and respond to fraud, including data mining for data sets and administrative procedures.