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The U.S. Office of Management and Budget issued a decision on Friday to close the facility in Seattle's Sand Point neighborhood despite a last-minute plea by senators in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho.
On Saturday, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued a public apology for having displayed an altered photograph at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC. The public…
SAA Statement: NARA Exhibit on 2017 Women's March in Washington, DC | Society of American Archivists
Society of American Archivists
Archives are the gifts of one generation to another, providing a fascinating insight into our past and helping us to trace our roots.
Author(s): Allison-Bunnell, Jodi | Editor(s): Turner, Adrian
(2018). Security, Archivists, and Digital Collections. Journal of Archival Organization: Vol. 15, No. 1-2, pp. 1-19.
Executive Summary This research report explores archiving practices and policies across newspapers, magazines, wire services, and digital-only news producers, with the aim of identifying the current state of archiving and potential strategies for preserving content in an age of digital distribution. Between March 2018 and January 2019, we conducted interviews with 48 individuals from […]
Drawing on data collected from focus groups composed of users of five different community-based archives sites in Southern California, and using Benedict Anderson’s book Imagined Communities as a conceptual foundation, this article examines community archives users’ imaginations, anxieties, and affect regarding other archival users and the shifting boundaries of their community.
A transgender man’s diaries can help us learn what San Francisco was like decades ago / LGBTQ Nation
“Damn I’m going to be a gorgeous man,” Lou Sullivan wrote 40 years ago in one of his personal diaries. Sullivan, who died in 1991 at the age of 39 due to complications from AIDS, was a pioneering transgender activist in the 1970s and 1980s. His book Information for the Female to Male Cross...
Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs, DVDs, diskettes, file transfers, etc.) and categories (images, text, audio, video, websites, etc).
“Acknowledging that [Indigenous communities] have sovereignty over the material and that it is indeed not yours is one of the key things we’re trying to promote in the work that we’re doing with the archival community.”
Tracing the intellectual and economic connections between Black women, Black data and colored conventions in the antebellum era.
Student Activism Now Documented
Collection of resources, papers, blog posts, and other documentation around working on and with Archivematica. - GitHub - archivematica/archivematica-case-studies: Collection of resources, papers, ...
On Tuesday, I started getting social media notifications about Frank Boles’ article, “To Everything There is a Season,” was was selected for the American Archivist brown bag lunch…