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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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

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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CILIP

JANUARY 28, 2020

Arup Library: 60 years. Arup Library: 60 years. Key projects include the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre and the British Library. The first library in the firm?s What follows is a brief overview of 60 years of the Arup Library in London. Early Arup Library. It mentions that ?people

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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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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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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

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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CILIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Apprenticeship Stories: Tom Saye Tom Saye As we celebrate National Apprentice Week, Tom Saye, Library Assistant, East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, shares his experience of how an apprenticeship opened the door to a new career. The more I looked into it, the more I came to realise that a job within a library would suit me.

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Archives Blogs

JUNE 9, 2020

As part of International Archives Week 2020 , the International Council of Archives (ICA) has encouraged its members to consider what archives are and what they mean to researchers and society. Archivists and researchers use the word archives in many different ways. The Basics.

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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

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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Archives Blogs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This post is part of our series celebrating American Archives Month. Last week, Special Collections & Archives did a Twitter Takeover of the @fsulibraries feed for #AskAnArchivist day so be sure to check out those conversations. . Page from The Girl’s Own Paper Volume 2, Issue 61.

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Archives Blogs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Detail of a newspaper clipping from the Joseph Tobias Papers, MSS 2017-002. In 2015, Florida State University (FSU) Libraries Special Collections & Archives established the Emmett Till Archives in collaboration with Emmett Till scholar Davis Houck , filmmaker Keith Beauchamp , and author Devery Anderson.

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Archives Blogs

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2019, we added 11 new collections to the digital library. All added up with all the other types of files we loaded, we added 13,760 new items in the digital library in 2019! Now, the more interesting question, what are people looking at in the digital library? We also added 1,414 new books (over 71,000 pages). Dirac for Ph.D.

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Archive-It

JUNE 15, 2022

by the Archive-It team. Archive-It partners and friends are invited to join in-person for this year’s partner meeting, to coincide with the Society of American Archivists’ ARCHIVES * RECORDS August 2022 meeting in Boston. We Can Rebuild It: Using the Internet Archive to Discover Original Order. New Release: Archive-It 7.2

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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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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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Armstrong Archives

DECEMBER 20, 2018

If you’re in the business of sorting through piles of paper files, you may wonder how to distinguish between files you should keep, files you should scan, and files you should shred. However, once you know how to dispose or store certain files, sorting through paper records will become much easier. Know Your State’s Laws.

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Preservica

JULY 26, 2018

The world’s largest grassroots human rights organization will use Preservica’s active digital preservation platform to create a global archive that will accelerate investigations into human rights violations and protect digital records of significant historical importance to the global movement. Oxford, UK and Boston, MA.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Enhance existing knowledge and information skills with Generative AI CILIP member, Josiah Richardson, is a Senior Library Assistant at An NHS trust in the Knowledge and Library Service based on the hospital site, whilst also doing the Level 3 Library, Information and Archive Services Assistant CILIP NVQ.

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Archives Blogs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Special Collections and Archives spent this summer contributing to two projects centered on the lives of local enslaved people. We primarily found plantation records, personal papers, and business records documenting the era of enslavement and sharecropping in the Tallahassee locale. Van Brunt General Store 1911 Day Book.

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Unwritten Record

AUGUST 10, 2022

Nearly 4,000 Universal Newsreel Release descriptions have been added to the National Archives Catalog, the result of a unique, multi-year collaborative effort by NARA staff of the Moving Image and Sound Branch and Citizen Archivist Phil Stewart. Universal Newsreel Opening Credits /Logo. million feet of outtake footage dating from 1930-1950.

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Unwritten Record

JUNE 15, 2021

Today’s post was written by Alan Walker, archivist in the Textual Records Division at the National Archives at College Park. For Preservation Month, here is a visual story of how the staff of the National Archives once did important work on a small piece of American naval history. 64-NA-44 9. 64-NA-452.

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Archives Blogs

JULY 2, 2019

This year, the National Archives celebrates the 243rd anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence with special events in Washington, DC, and at Presidential Libraries nationwide. July 4th celebrations on the steps of the National Archives in Washington, DC. Papers of the Continental Congress.

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Archives Blogs

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Page from the Joseph Tobias Papers ; regarding an unauthorized film about Emmett Till, 1960. Recently, we’ve added a new collection to the Emmett Till Archives in DigiNole: FSU’s Digital Repository. For more information, see the collection’s finding aid.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

by Yoo Young Lee, Head, Information Technology, University of Ottawa Library. This blog post was adapted and modified from my presentation at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference on June 16, 2021. Screenshot from the NAHO web archive.

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Archives Blogs

JULY 3, 2018

This year, the National Archives celebrates the 242nd anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence with special events in Washington, DC, and at Presidential Libraries nationwide. Film of the transfer of the Charters of Freedom from the Library of Congress to NARA. Papers of the Continental Congress.

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Unwritten Record

AUGUST 23, 2022

The National Archives’ extensive holdings of World War II-era radio broadcasts have long been overshadowed by our flashier newsreel holdings. The paper finding aids and preservation books in our research room often have more information on these recordings than can be found in the catalog. Stull Is The Driver Of The Vehicle.

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The Schedule

AUGUST 4, 2020

We had 41 blog posts, including a continuation of the Resourceful Records Manager series and the introduction of two new series exploring the intersections between archives and records management work — one a series of testimonials from practitioners and the other a series of brief literature reviews exploring these intersections.

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Archives Blogs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

October is a special month for those us in the archives. Even for our co-workers in libraries. So, archivists have embraced American Archives Month, held every October, as a way to share what it is we do. You can check out the hashtag #AskAnArchivist and the FSU Libraries twitter page to catch up on those tweets.

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Armstrong Archives

APRIL 1, 2022

Beyond the pandemic, there are many reasons for this shift toward more paper-independent workplaces, such as mitigating costs and better serving customers in a digital marketplace. Projections indicate that 45% of the world’s top companies will increase their implementation of zero-paper workflows. Paper is expensive.

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The Texas Record

JULY 6, 2020

At ACU, Brady was an archivist in the Special Collection and University Archives, which encouraged him to continue his education. While at UT, he focused on archives and records management. Becca was instrumental in determining potential disposition eligibility of the papers.

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Archive-It

MAY 16, 2018

by the Archive-It team. Join us at the annual Archive-It Partner Meeting. We hope you can join us for an afternoon partner meeting on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 preceding ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2018 , the joint annual meeting of CoSA, NAGARA, and SAA. May 30: Beginners’ Web Archiving Workshop at METRO – New York, NY.

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Archive-It

APRIL 13, 2022

Community Webs advances the capacity for community-focused memory organizations to build web and digital archives documenting local histories and underrepresented voices. ICC COP26 position paper, available at: [link]. This post is part of a series written by members of the Community Webs program.

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Archives Blogs

AUGUST 1, 2017

While this blog serves as a running feature of highlights from Special Collections & Archives, our newest exhibit makes the materials we talk about online available for the public to see in person.

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