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Spotlight: Photographs Documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Unwritten Record

According to John Salmond, author of The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942: A New Deal Case Study , “during its life span of nine years more than 2.5 Proper credit lines are encouraged in the interest of good documentation. They also help inform the public about government photographic resources that are available.

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COVID-19 in local history web archives: What we collect and why

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Universities, governments, NGOs, and private companies crawled proliferating policies and public statements. Public libraries, historical societies, and other regional collectors maintain 40 of these collections, comprising over 16TB of preserved data from over 11K seed URLs at the time of writing.

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e-Records Conference 2018: Call for Presentations

The Texas Record

This event promotes improved electronic records management in Texas government by bringing together staff responsible for and interested in records management and information technology. This event is organized by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and co-sponsored by the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR).

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SAA/NAGARA/COSA 2018 Recap: Session 201

The Schedule

This session was composed of lightning talks about various email archiving projects, including the first NHPRC electronic records case studies focused on email archiving. Katherine O’Neil from the Manuscript Division of Library of Congress described the process of identifying email within their collections. million records.

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Archiving and describing mass tragedy: the Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada

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Photo by Aaron Mayes (Curator for Visual Materials, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives). Reflecting on our mission to document Southern Nevada, we realized that we had a critical responsibility to preserve this history so we could study, remember, and reflect on it later.

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SAA Austin Recap #3! Public Involvement and Transparency in Records Scheduling and Appraisal

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Author: Cathrine Giles Manager, State Records Branch, Archives and Records Management Division, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Openness and transparency helps people see what the government is doing with their records. 306 – Public Involvement and Transparency in Records Scheduling and Appraisal [GOV].

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Eggplant Activism: Philadelphia Community Gardens and COVID-19

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Local and State government hadn’t included specific regulations for gardens in their closure orders. McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Wiota Street Community Garden Farm Stand, August 12, 2020.