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Making informed and accurate projections of skills, time and materials needed for projects is key to responsibly managing the resources and collections entrusted to us. In the realm of archives …
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On November 1st, North American members of the OCLC Research Library Partnership came together in Baltimore to engage in day-long discussions on several topics. Rebecca has already posted about the discussion of evolving scholarly services and …
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[This post is contributed by our Practitioner Researcher-in-Residence, Chela Scott Weber] Some of you may have seen the recent announcement that I’m working with the good folks here at OCLC …
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Like most people, I have an “archive” of personal born-digital materials on various media. Like most people’s personal archives, mine has CDs and DVDs and 3 1/2″ disks. Mine …
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As an archivist, I’m acutely aware of the broad applicability of archivists’ skills and expertise to the challenges facing research libraries—challenges in areas beyond those traditionally seen as within the …
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This is the third and final post about an SAA lightning talk session. Part 1 began with descriptions of the array of media an archives might confront and an effort …
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This is the second of three posts about a lightning talk session at SAA. Part 1 began with descriptions of the array of media an archives might confront and an …
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[Tweet] AB Schmuland: Obsolete media brings them in at 8 am EDT on a Saturday! #saa14 #s601 http://t.co/9BaDz0IhOs I chaired a lightning talk session at SAA 2014 in Washington DC …
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This post is a follow up to my previous one that described the overall landscape of current job ads for digital archivist positions (many of which are still open as …
Read MoreThat was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers. It was initiated by Jonathan LeBreton of Temple, who noted the questions staff raised when describing voluminous …
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