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Revisiting Digital Preservation - A Tale of Two Undergraduate Majors

AIIM

The history major perhaps explains why I am so intrigued by the question of digital preservation. There are so many aspects of digital preservation that are important to me as a history major – things like “digital memory” and “preserving our cultural heritage” and libraries and formal archives.

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RIM-brain in Movies and TV

The Texas Record

Dr. Who – Silence in the Library. Their mission in this episode leads them to the 50th century planet called The Library, which is explained as a creation existing within the imagination of a present-day little girl who watches the characters and plot unfold through her television. And who is the Records Management Officer?

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Learn more about web archiving with Archive-It Advanced Training

Archive-It

In particular, the Archive-It Advanced Training series of webinars features lessons, technology updates, and more tips and tricks from the Internet Archive’s staff and web archiving partners around the world! There are lots of ongoing training opportunities for web archivists of all experience levels. Technology review.

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FAQ: Can I destroy a paper original after scanning?

The Texas Record

Last, I would rate attorneys’ receipt books (CC1650-03) pretty low priority for getting digitized because, no offense to attorneys, but it just doesn’t seem like a record that would meet the definition of essential record in the Local Gov. Records Act.

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eRecords 2018: Panel Discussions on Preservation and Protecting the Bits

The Texas Record

In the afternoon, Mark Myers, Senior Electronic Records Specialist with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, presented on how to retain the autheticity, reliability, integrity, and usability of electronic records through digital preservation.

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Cross-Post from Out of the Stacks: How to Convert Your Home Movie Tapes to Digital

The Texas Record

The Talking Book Program, the Library Development Network and the State Librarian himself, Mark Smith all use the blog format to communicate with the people and agencies who rely on us. TIP: Different video formats have different ways to protect the tape from being recorded over. TIP: Always inspect your media.

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The British Library?s International Library Leaders Programme

CILIP

The British Library?s s International Library Leaders Programme. Ilene McKenna is the Lead Archivist, Archival Information System Renewal at Library and Archives Canada. In November 2019, she had the opportunity to take part in British Library?s s International Library Leaders programme. Background.