Archival Issues
I enjoy getting spam from archives vendors. I'm not really sure how they get my contact information (does SAA sell it or is it unknowingly harvested?), but its still enjoyable nonetheless. Here is another one for your consideration: Dear Benjamin S. Bromley, Below is some quick information about
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There's been a lot of talk about the use of the Archives and Archivists listserv, #thatdarnlist, and blogs rather than listservs as fora for discussion by SAA members. I'm only going to address one small part of this larger debate: why I don't post
archival intelligence
I'm finally finished with my master's paper! The title ended up being "'Finding What, You Know?': A Content Analysis of the Websites of Archival Repositories for Markers of Archival Intelligence." Here's the abstract if anyone wants to read it; it
Archival Issues
For those of you who don't know, I am a member of the free/open source software community. I have used versions of Linux on my personal computer for four years now. I run this server and this installation of Wordpress on a Debian GNU/Linux installation on
Archival Issues
I emailed my representative, David Price, about the PAHR bill before the House a couple of months ago, and he finally responded to me today. He basically says that the much of the records are held on the state level, the NHPRC gives out grants to states, he likes the
Archival Issues
Gmail uses the word "archive" to describe the action of moving mail out of your inbox and into the "All Mail" folder. Barnes and Noble, on their new nook ebook reader, uses the word "archive" to actually mean delete! When you click on the
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Archival as an Approach | Morgan E. Jones - Apr 6, 2013 [...] [1] Bromley, Benjamin. "The Word 'Archive.'" Among Other Items (Blog). 20 January 2010. http://amongotheritems.org/2010/01/the-word-archive/ [...] Round up: vocabulary of the archives | mademoiselle archivist - Jan 4, 2014 […] Bromley was thinking and
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So, for a variety of reasons, I've decided to go in a new direction with my master's paper. The reasons include the fact that my IRB application was pretty terrible and the second version of it wouldn't be done until too late; the class
Archival Issues
I got a Barnes and Noble nook, which is an ebook reader, for Christmas. So far, I've only loaded it up with free ebooks from Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg is a project whose goal is to digitize out of copyright books and make them freely available online. So
Archival Issues
TomG - Nov 5, 2009 I had a 1 yr subscription to MobileMe (mac) for my version of LOCKSS and it never worked as well or fast as the free service from Dropbox. I use Dropbox to LOCKSS all our family computers now and it works great. If anyone is
Archival Issues
The name of this blog, "Last Temporary Name," was a play on the fact that I could never decide on what to name this blog. It didn't help that I didn't have a focus for the blog, so a title wouldn't really
Archival Issues
I was in my Preservation class last week, and we were talking about conservation; we had just visited the Preservation lab in Davis Library, and had talked about how to conserve general library materials. When we returned to the classroom, we started talking about conservation issues. We started talking about