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Legal: Digitization Projects: "Missouri Supreme Court Cases From 1800s to Go on Web"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News
|From the Associated Press: The Missouri State Archives will be posting thousands of old state Supreme Court cases online for the public to view beginning late next year. [Clip] The agency will use the money to scan the Missouri Supreme Court’s original files in about 9,000 cases heard between 1821 and 1865. The scanned files […]
Audio: "Should the Library of Congress Become a National Digital Hard-Drive?"
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Jeff Young from The Chronicle of Higher Education talks with Martha Anderson the director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP) at the Library of Congress. From a Text Blurb: The nation’s library now archives all public Twitter messages – what’s next? The Tech Therapy team talks with Martha Anderson, director of […]
NARA: National Archives Releases 2010 Records Management Self-Assessment Report
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News, Reports
|From a NARA News Release: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announces the release of the 2010 Records Management Self-Assessment Report. In May 2010, NARA issued the mandatory annual records management self-assessment (RMSA) to Federal agencies. This followed the pilot self-assessment that was completed in 2009. The goal of the self-assessment is to determine […]
New GAO Report: "Electronic Government: National Archives and Records Administration's Fiscal Year 2011 Expenditure Plan"
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
|From the Summary: NARA’s fiscal year 2011 expenditure plan satisfies four of the six legislative conditions and partially satisfies two. Specifically, it partially satisfies the condition that NARA meet requirements for reviewing the progress of capital investments, such as ERA. While NARA has held regular meetings with senior-level agency management to review ERA progress, these […]
Canada: "Vancouver Launches Online Photo Archive"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Resources
|From a CBC Article: The City of Vancouver has completed an online photo archive project, a collection of panoramic cityscapes from the early to mid 1900s.Nearly 400 images by photographer W.J. Moore have been digitized and uploaded to the Vancouver Archives website. W. J. Moore worked as a commercial photographer from 1911 to 1953. He […]
Tennessee: "New Online Archive Displays Vast Collections of Library's Memphis Room"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Public Libraries, Resources
|From a Memphis Commercial Appeal Article: If you are interested in a sepia-toned photo of the 1932 graduating class of Central High School or an 1836 letter from William Andusentte of New Orleans to Britton Duke of Germantown regarding cotton prices, you can put on your shoes and button up your coat before heading to […]
Archivist of the United States Announces Agency Restructuring and New Appointments
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
|From a NARA Announcement: Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero recently announced several key appointments to begin a major transformation of the National Archives and Records Administration. The new appointments follow an internal report, A Charter for Change: Charting the Course, which recommended changes to the organizational structure and culture of the National […]
New from GAO: National Archives: Framework Governing Use of Presidential Library Facilities and Staff
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|From the Summary of a New GAO Report: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) operates presidential libraries for all of the former U.S. presidents since Herbert Hoover. These libraries received over 2.4 million visits in 2009, including researchers, public program attendees, and museum visitors. Each library is associated with a private foundation, which raised […]
"Rare Historical Resources Now Online From West Texas Digital Archives"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Resources
|From a DuraSpace Blog Post: The West Texas Digital Archives, an online digital repository of significant historical materials belonging to the members of the Abilene Library Consortium (ALC), is now available online at http://wtda.alc.org/. This virtual collection of more than 44,000 preserves and provides access to valuable historical resources previously unavailable to the general public. […]
"Full-Text Search Capability Not Without Problems, Scholars Say"
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Resources
|by Phil Ciciora, University of Illinois News Bureau From the Article: The perception that plugging a few keywords into Google will yield a universe of relevant information is somewhat mistaken, say Kathryn LaBarre and Carol L. Tilley, professors of library and information science at Illinois. [Our emphasis] “There’s a lot of excitement about the availability […]