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Glossary Citation The chief reasons for the rule are that out-of-court statements amounting to hearsay are not made under oath and are not subject to cross-examination. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The classic mono-hierarchical theory of bureaucracy elucidated by Max Weber, in which each subordinate unit is responsible to one superior unit, has long been a thing of the past. Parallel structures, task forces and project teams, joined across organiza cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
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Group News Item The Collection Management Section is happy to support TS-EAS' efforts to maintain EAD and EAC-CPF 48280 Collection Management Section 12/04/2020 - 5:47pm
Group News Item The Conversation Continues marqu897 Annual Meeting Task Force (disbanded) 08/06/2013 - 10:48am
Glossary Citation The copyright laws of the United States grant certain rights to copyright owners for the protection of their works of authorship. Among these rights is the right to make, and to authorize others to make, a reproduction of the copyrighted work, and the rig cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The core of the text is the disposition2, that is, the expression of the will or judgment of the author. Here, the fact or act is expressly enunciated, usually by means of a verb able to communicate the nature of the action and the function of the documen cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Leader Page The Cyberarchivist: Mary Jane Meets the Information Age crsalgado 02/15/2011 - 5:37pm
Glossary Citation The decision in favor of anonymity1 may be motivated by fear of economic or official retaliation, by concern about social ostracism, or merely by a desire to preserve as much of one's privacy as possible. . . . ¶ Anonymity is a shield from the tyrann cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The degree to which a record can be considered reliable is dependent upon the level of procedural and technical control exercised during its creation and management in its active life. Authenticity, by contrast, is the responsibility of archival managemen cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The description of individuals, families, and organizations that create records is an essential component of the preservation of the documentary evidence of human activity. Identifying record creating entities; recording the names or designations used by cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The dimensions of standard negative, print, and transparency sizes are called formats. In general, the nominal dimensions of the picture area (e.g., 2¼ inches square) are used for roll, cassette, and cartridge films, while the actual outer dimensio cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Group News Item The Displays: On Anti-Racist Study and Institutional Enclosure by David James Hudson (up//root) hbarlow Human Rights Archives Section 11/30/2020 - 5:08pm
Glossary Citation The distinction between what and for whom libraries and archives remember accounts form the major differences in archival and bibliographic description. A bibliographic description, such as that found in a MARC record, represents an individual published i cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The distinction between what can and cannot be 'annexed' to a document is like all fine distinctions, difficult. Its particular difficulty may perhaps be illustrated by a reductio ad absurdum. Supposing for example that a Viceroy sends home to the Secreta cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The doctrine of constructive notice rests on the idea that all persons may learn and actually know that of which the law gives notice and implies knowledge. The notice imparted by the due and proper record of an instrument, although called a constructive cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The documents in archival collections relate to each other in ways that transcend the information in each document. The archival whole is greater than the sum of its parts; the relationships are as important as the particulars. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The duty to preserve records arises from the same sources as the duty to create them: statute, regulation, and contract. When the records relate to litigation or potential litigation an additional duty arises to preserve relevant material. Once records be cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The duty to preserve6 records during the pendency of litigation overrides any business procedures that may be in place for destruction of records, including otherwise appropriate destruction under a records retention program. Once the duty to preserve is cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The early concept of an MIS, commonplace in the 1960s and early 1970s, was that systems analysts would determine the information requirements of individual managers in an organization, and would design systems to supply that information routinely and/or o cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
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Glossary Citation The engrossed copy of a bill that has passed both Houses together with its engrossed amendments is the official working copy from which an enrolled bill is prepared. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The environment in which records reside can either increase or decrease their reliability and trustworthiness. The courts bestow a high degree of trust in records that are 'kept in the regular course of business activity . . . as shown by the testimony o cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm