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Author: Merrilee Proffitt

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Somehow we missed it…

August 10, 2006October 12, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 1 Comment

Was it the fact that I was winging my way to Washington, DC, at the beginning of a 10-day trip (which wraps up today)? Was it the fact that things …

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Libraries Archives and Museums / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Research Library Partnership

RLG Forum, day two, part one

August 8, 2006August 8, 2006 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 2 Comments.

Today, we are only going to update you on the first half of the second day – otherwise this post would get too long, and besides, we want to go …

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Libraries Archives and Museums / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Research Library Partnership

RLG Forum, day one

August 7, 2006August 8, 2006 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 1 Comment

Today was the first day of the RLG Member Forum, and so far, it seems to be a great success. Our venue, the theater at the Folger Shakespeare Library, is …

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Archives and Special Collections / Digital Preservation / Web Archiving

Archivists on Blogging, web archiving

August 7, 2006September 4, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 3 Comments.

[sorry this photo is so blurry — I clearly haven’t mastered taking snaps on my Treo] This photo is from a session at the recent Society of American Archivists annual …

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Archives and Special Collections

Please fill out my survey! archival collection description

May 25, 2006May 25, 2006 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 1 Comment

I have put together a brief survey, gathering data for two reasons: 1. I will be speaking at the upcoming Society of American Archivists annual meeting on a panel called …

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Miscellaneous

Librarians, suddenly popular

May 11, 2006May 11, 2006 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 1 Comment

A recent television ad from Ask.com [you need a media player], “Librarians Love Ask.” (According to ResourceShelf, this ad was filmed in the library at Rutgers University and features unscripted …

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Collective Collections

Pick of the litter* from CNI Spring Project Briefing

May 11, 2006May 19, 2006 - by Merrilee Proffitt

I’d like to highlight what I thought was a great presentation from the recent CNI Spring Task Force Meeting. Barbara Taranto’s presentation, Embracing the (De)contextualization of Digital Artifacts gave New …

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Research Library Partnership

Ch-ch-changes

May 3, 2006May 3, 2006 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 3 Comments.

The emails have been flying thick and fast today, and many people have asked me what’s up at RLG. Here’s a press release and a FAQ. RLG staff found out …

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Digital Preservation / Web Archiving

RLG and web archiving

May 1, 2006September 4, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Continuing my walk down memory lane…. I attended the Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2006 Task Force Meeting and gave a project briefing titled, Archiving and Preserving the Web: Future …

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Archives and Special Collections / Measurement and Behaviors

User studies and ArchiveGrid

April 27, 2006May 1, 2006 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 2 Comments.

Two of my favorite things, tied together: access to archival information, and user studies. All documented here in this RLG Focus article by Arnold Arcolio on our user testing for …

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