The National Archives (UK) has just released new guidance for UK archives on developing digital preservation policies. See http://http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/projects-and-work/policy-guidance.htm
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apologies for cross posting
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Attention NING members new and old,
Did you know that you can join Groups on the NING, and get messages of relevant information about the activities of that Group sent directly to you?
There are Groups for the ASA Branches around Australia, the ASA Spe
Read more…Tips on Archiving Family History, Part 3
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: 12 June 12, 2013
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Hopefully many of you will now have seen the impassioned plea by Phillip Pullman for the retention of library services in the Oxford area. What you may not have realised is that archives, too, are being targeted in this latest round of cultur
Read more…State Records NSW has reviewed the “Standard on the physical storage of State records” and now proposes to approve a revised version under the State Records Act 1998.
The original standard was issued in 2000 under the State Records Act. The proposed
The ICA has just posted the draft Access Principles which were developed by a working party chaired by Trudy Peterson and which I was on:
Comm
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We are currently planning an outsourced digitisation project of microfilm and would like to input the index into CALM in the future. We are considering to save the index either in .csv or SGML. Wonder if anyone know could CALM able to input data fr
Read more…I have an archives-related ethical dilemma associated with some research I’ve been doing.
I’ve been looking into a case from the 1920s of a young University of Adelaide medical student who was expelled from his course for a ‘marital misdemeanour’ (h
Read more…Further to Catherine's post of 11 August I come late to Senator Lundy's page at http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/#comments
which has a whole 5 comments and the Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/digitalcul
Read more…Very low-end request for assistance I know, but (for a non-Melbournite):
Can anyone give me some guidance on vendors in Melbourne area supplying reasonable quality second-hand 400+mm depth steel shelving? I am seeking minimum of 25 shelf metres for l
Read more…Good morning ArchivesLive! members
Please take some time to check out the National Archives of Australia's new corporate website during the next couple of weeks while we have a period of public preview. All feedback welcome via the feedback link in th
Read more…From A/g Director-General Stephen Ellis:
Dear Archives Colleagues
I am pleased to advise that our Minister, the Hon Simon Crean MP, is this morning announcing the appointment of the new Director-General for the National Archives of Australia.
Mr David F
Read more…The ASA Council is meeting this coming weekend, Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 December 2011, in Sydney, at State Records NSW Sydney Records Centre, The Rocks.
Thanks to Cassie Findlay & SRNSW for hosting the meeting.
After a long and concentrated business mee
Read more…Raises some of the very same questions we raised
From the Irish TImes Dec 3rd
CULTURE SHOCK: Either some genius believes that a single board can oversee a State archive, a national museum and a national library, or two back-of-an-envelope mergers got a
Read more…Firstly, thank you to the organisers of this intelligent and lively discourse held on 23 March at the Australian Technology Park, Redfern. I thoroughly enjoyed it and wanted to share some of the key issues the roundtable raised and my response to tho
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