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Experts say we're living in a digital "lost century" -- a time that, thanks to digitization, may leave no records behind it.
Throughout the history of the profession, archivists have provided access to the wealth of information they steward. Archivists are responsible for promoting the use of records; this is a fundamental purpose of the keeping of archives. The decisions archivists make about what evidence is saved and what is discarded shape cultural memory. The nature of the historical record is formed not only by the actions of archivists but also by the public’s ability to access this information.
Photographer Chip Clark has worked at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for 37 years and photographs its archives and archivists
State archivists have discovered a document with historic census information on Abraham Lincoln’s associates in a small, central Illinois city, the Illinois secretary of state announced Wednesday.While searching through a Menard County vault in Petersburg, Illinois State Archives staff found an 1840 state census along with several other documents rolled up in a small vegetable […]
To establish context when performing arrangement, archivists start with an understanding of the overall body that produced the records. Archivists keep evidential and information values in mind to create a scheme that protects both. As part of archival collections management, they also think about audiences, as archives usually have more than one.
Douglas Edwards - Television Anchor/Journalist. Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend. Specifically: According to archivists at The Douglas Edwards Archives at St. Bonaventure University, Mr. Edwards' ashes were given to his wife.
About the Collection Photographs from the Walt Disney Archives is a portfolio of historic images hand-curated by Disney Archivists for this exclusive collection. Description Walt Disney pauses amidst the “tilted rocks” of the Rainbow Caverns Mine Train attraction during the late summer of 1957. Product Details Prints a
This digital exhibit is the companion to physical exhibit mounted by the Daughters of Charity Provincial Archives for a meeting of archivists from Sisters of Charity Federation member communities, held October 25-26, 2013, in Emmitsburg, MD. These images, selected from items used in the physical exhibit, are reproduced here with the permission of the contributing…
Close your eyes when you listen to this man sing and you will know who his father is instantly.There are very few times when the son of a music idol...
Organizations are expected to keep records that reflect how the organization operates.
Archival repositories can generate surrogates for various purposes, such as PDFs for print reproduction, JPEGs for online display, and TIFFs for storage. The hundredth copy of a digital image is indistinguishable from its progenitors. Electronic copies suffer no degradation through the duplication process, unlike other forms of copying, such as facsimiles. A copy of a digital image is indistinguishable from its source, while the original can lose its meaning in this electronic world.
You may have seen archivists on television helping people to discover their roots in old records or talking to historians (or detectives!). But you might be wondering what archivists do the rest of the day. Even if you visit an archive - and we hope you will - a lot of what we do goes…
The role of archivists has always been in flux, responding to the needs of the information world and providing the unique skill sets that librarians, historians, and records managers may understand but do not hold. Archivists are colleagues to librarians, historians, and records managers, but are a distinct class unto themselves.
Records management is the systematic control of records throughout their life cycle to ensure efficiency and economy in their creation, use, handling, maintenance, and destruction. The records management life cycle is the distinct phases of a record’s existence, from creation to disposition. Archives and records management programs are often linked in an organization.
Ryan Richardson is one of the United States’ foremost collectors, archivists, and dealers of punk rock records and ephemera, as well as being the Internet saint who created free online archives of Star, Rock Scene, and Slash magazines. He also runs Fanzinefaves.com, a repository of various early punk zines as well as the exhaustive punk info blog Break My Face. We’ve written about Richardson’s punk altruism before here at Dangerous Minds, and well, it looks like he’s gone and done it again—bigtime. Richardson’s gift to the world this time around is a...
Ryan Richardson is one of the United States’ foremost collectors, archivists, and dealers of punk rock records and ephemera, as well as being the Internet saint who created free online archives of Star, Rock Scene, and Slash magazines. He also runs Fanzinefaves.com, a repository of various early punk zines as well as the exhaustive punk info blog Break My Face. We’ve written about Richardson’s punk altruism before here at Dangerous Minds. The last time was when he uploaded the entire print run of the seminal transgressive LA artpunk publication, NO MAG, over at his site...
Experts believe a unidentified bible held by Glasgow University may have belonged to John Knox - a founding father of the Protestant Reformation.
