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Book reviews: a call to arms for open licensing

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Nearly all the case studies in the second half of the book are UK-based and most deal with digitisation projects; the two exceptions are the accounts from the British Library (open metadata) and the University of Edinburgh (open educational resources). British Library. Louise Ashton. & Saunderson, F.

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Describing web archives: Learning from Archive-It partners and friends

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Deborah Kempe (Chief, Collections Management & Access at the Frick Art Reference Library of the Frick Collection) introduced the mandate to archive and describe websites for union library catalog access among the member institutions of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC).

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Feature Spotlight: Internal Seeds Groups

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As of March 2023, the top names given to these internal seed groups were: ‘Fix’ (21) ‘7’ (7) A three-way tie: ‘Twitter’ (5), ‘QA seeds’ (5), ‘needs metadata’ (5) And of course there were many unique group names, meaningful perhaps only to those at the organizations.

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Saving local political websites for community history

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by Melody Kramer, Graduate Student (Master of Library and Information Science), University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As a former journalist and current library student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, I understand the importance of capturing these important digital artifacts from an election cycle.

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Archive-It Partner News, May 2018

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you can catch up with Internet Archive staff and other Archive-It partners at these upcoming events: May 15-17: Texas Conference on Digital Libraries – Austin, TX. July 26-27: Art Libraries Society UK & Ireland Annual Meeting – London, UK. DC Public Library launches the Washingtoniana Web Archive. Tech and Training.

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Learn more about web archiving with Archive-It Advanced Training

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Here are some examples of what you will find: Managing collections. Partners from the Queens Public Library, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and UC San Diego explain how they arrived at their answers with a discussion and demonstration of their collection development policies. Access and description. Technology review.

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Starting small but dreaming big: A beginner’s journey to web archiving

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by Yoo Young Lee, Head, Information Technology, University of Ottawa Library. My journey to web archiving started suddenly, with an invitation to preserve the web content of the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO) in 2017, when I had just joined the University of Ottawa Library as a Web and Digital Initiatives librarian.