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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IG Guru

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Virginia Assoc of Govt Archives & Records Managers Virtual Conference is scheduled October 28 and registration is open. The post Webinar: Virginia Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators on October 28th 9am-12:30pm appeared first on IG GURU. The ½ day virtual conference (9 a.m. –

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Archive-It

JUNE 30, 2017

Are you a public librarian interested in expanding your local history collections to include web archives? The Community Webs program is offered by the Internet Archive in partnership with WebJunction, and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. If so, you’re in luck!

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Preservica

JUNE 25, 2019

Preservica, market leaders in active digital preservation, has announced the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) , part of SOAS University of London , will use its cloud-hosted digital preservation and discovery platform to safeguard and increase access to their extensive multimedia collection of endangered languages.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

International library leaders explore the purpose and future of libraries. Facet Publishing announces the publication of Bold Minds: Library leadership in a time of disruption edited by Margaret Weaver and Leo Appleton. Are librarians and libraries relevant in the 21st century?

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CILIP

MARCH 4, 2024

Decision-makers and sector leaders from CILIP’s Employer and Learning Partners met last Wednesday at the Hive Library in Worcester for a hybrid in-person and online programme that focussed on getting a head start on AI policy. The day was made possible with sponsorship from CB Resourcing and WF Education. Read more about the workshop.

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Archives Blogs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In celebration of Presidents Day, we are featuring a series of Citizen Archivist tagging and transcription missions using Catalog records from each Presidential Library: a Presidential Libraries Road Trip ! We first announced this project through our National Archives Catalog newsletter. More than 6,000 photographs of U.S.

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The post The Lighting the Way project team is pleased to announce the publication of The Lighting the Way Handbook: Case Studies, Guidelines, and Emergent Futures for Archival Discovery and Delivery, edited by Mark A. Check out this publication from the Standford Libarary. Matienzo and Dinah Handel appeared first on IG GURU.

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Archives Blogs

JUNE 13, 2018

Providing public access to Federal Government records is central to the mission of the National Archives. Collaboration with stakeholders, the public, and private organizations to make historical records available has long been a priority for the National Archives. We’ve been involved with DPLA from its earliest stages.

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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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CILIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Apprenticeships: supporting new talent in to libraries. Last summer Kirklees Libraries recruited two new apprentices as part of a council-wide programme to develop and deliver apprentice opportunities. Among the vanguard of library apprenticeships schemes is Kirklees Libraries in West Yorkshire. Career opportunities.

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Preservica

JUNE 2, 2020

The State Library of South Australia (SLSA) has chosen Preservica’s cloud-hosted active digital preservation platform to safeguard more than 150 terabytes of unique digitized and born-digital material. The State Library of South Australia is the trusted custodian of all South Australiana. Adelaide, Australia. Oxford, UK. June 3rd 2020.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In late September, we lost an iconic figure in the library and archives field. By the time I matriculated into The University of Texas’s School of Information in 2013, I knew that it had a powerhouse archival and records enterprise curriculum. Dr. David B. “For the TSLAC Records Center David B.

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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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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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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

At a recent award ceremony held in Hong Kong, Simon Chu was honored for his sustained international leadership over the past several decades on issues involving the governance and preservation of archives. Last year’s winner of the Emmett Leahy Award, former U.S. Visit: www.preservica.com Twitter: @preservica.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Lee Child and Libraries. Heather Martin looks at how a love of libraries and the services they. libraries have always played. In the beginning was the library. ? In the beginning was the library. ?Nobody Nobody gets to go to university unless they have been to the library when they are three or four years old,?

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CILIP

JUNE 13, 2023

Connecting town and gown through the library How to help a community explore its slave-trading history: Lesley English, Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University Library, explains how the library plays a key role in building bridges between town and gown. We connect, we innovate, we include.”

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Marcin’s Apprenticeship Story Marcin Tumidajski is Assistant Librarian in the academic support team at Paul Hamlyn Library University of West London, Ealing and completed his apprenticeship at the end of 2023. Only after some research, did I find out that it has a lot more to do with libraries.

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Archive-It

MARCH 7, 2018

by the Archive-It team. The program will provide education, applied training, cohort network development, and web archiving services for a group of public librarians to develop expertise in web archiving for the purpose of local memory collecting. Read the full story on the Internet Archive’s blog >>>

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Preservica

AUGUST 15, 2018

Boston, MA and Oxford, UK – Aug 15 2018 – The Dartmouth College Library, an integral part of the private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, has chosen Preservica ’s cloud-hosted active digital preservation software to protect and provide greater online access to the heritage and institutional assets of the college.

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Preservica

APRIL 26, 2018

Real-world digital preservation blog series: The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA). KDLA provides equitable access to quality library and information resources and services and helps state and local government agencies ensure that their work is preserved and made available for public use.

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CILIP

MARCH 26, 2024

CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Lavinia Bentley, Archive Assistant, Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, Collections Centre, British Motor Museum Is starting an apprenticeship in the 60th year of your life a good idea? My position was Archive Apprentice. My position was Archive Apprentice. now renamed Jaguar Land Rover Ltd.)

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CILIP

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world. Annual Libraries Week celebrations (7-12 October 2019) will showcase how libraries have transformed their digital offer, featuring events and activities in more than 1,000 libraries across the UK. 500 to donate to a library of your choice.

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Unwritten Record

AUGUST 20, 2024

This post was created in collaboration with Hilda Gitchell, Archives Technician in the Still Picture Branch Local ID: 90-G-23A-575 As the summer winds down and we brace ourselves for a transition to cooler (albeit still humid) weather, we would like to say goodbye and good riddance to a constant presence in most outdoor summer plans: the mosquito.

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The Texas Record

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

We are pleased to announce the State Records Management Education Materials have been updated and are available on the Records Management Interagency Coordinating Council (RMICC) website. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission added information about the Texas Digital Archive and updated our logo.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Preservica’s Cloud Edition for Consortia delivers value of complete Preservica offering for budget-strapped Academic Libraries. FLO helps its members with library systems, resource sharing and technical support, as well as fostering community collaboration and statewide recognition.

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The Schedule

MARCH 6, 2019

The following is a RMS guest post by Maarja Krusten, a retired Federal government historian who worked on records, archives, and historical research assignments and served for 14 years as an archivist in NARA’s Office of Presidential Libraries. . In 1940, the Pension Bureau transferred the records to the National Archives.

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Gimmal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For instance, in a SharePoint environment: Without Folders : All documents reside in a single library, but with metadata tags like document type, department, or project name. Provide Training and Support : Educate users on the benefits and best practices of using metadata.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Library, information professionals and knowledge managers are often at the forefront of managing personal and identifiable information in their organisations. When a breach occurs, library and information professionals, as well as wider teams, often face intense scrutiny and a surge in workload as they deal with the fallout.

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CILIP

MAY 15, 2019

Emerging Technologies: The Library of Everything. archiving or disposing of unpopular books, journals and data. Library of Babel ([link] in real life ? Library of Babel ([link] in real life ? a (practically) infinite library. What if we didn?t t have to do that? Putting the data into the DNA. will become the norm.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 18, 2021

s library and information association and the Archives & Records Association (ARA) have jointly convened a Workforce Data Consortium (please see below for a full list of partners) to fund a Workforce Mapping Survey of the library, archives, records, information and knowledge sector. Invitation to Tender ?

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IG Guru

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Barragan (San Jose State University) Introduction “The Library of Babel” is a short story conceiving of a universe in the form of a nearly infinite library containing all possible books. The post Scholar Calling on Writers for New Book: Impacts of the Cloud on Records Management and Archives appeared first on IG GURU.

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Archive-It

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

by Tammi Kim, Special Collections and Archives Technical Services Librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The staff at UNLV’s Special Collections and Archives were shocked and horri fied, and the impact of this tragic event has been shocking and surreal to the Las Vegas community.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We have also been able to grow our influence in Westminster and the Devolved Administrations, particularly thanks to the re-launch of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Libraries, Information and Knowledge (APPG LInK) ? to promote collaboration between libraries in the UK and overseas. Building bridges, not walls.

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The Schedule

JUNE 11, 2019

I always assumed I would end up working for an academic library, archives, or similar cultural heritage institution. What is your educational background? I hold a MS in Library Science as well as a graduate certificate in Digital Curation and Data Management from the University of North Texas.

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