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Group Page The Belfast Case: Information for SAA Members jgeidson 1 Oral History Section 12/16/2024 - 8:46am
Group Newsletter The Belfast Project, Arrests, and Archival Worse Case Scenarios ssanroman Issues and Advocacy Section 05/08/2014 - 3:04pm
Glossary Citation The best approach to understanding what is a document is to examine what information is readily available to the computer user in the ordinary course of business. If the employee can view the information, it should be treated as the equivalent of a paper cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The birth of the form2 nicely illustrates how documents were streamlined and tailored in the service of ever greater efficiency. . . . [Workers' documentation of their activities] could be standardized and speeded up by printing forms, sheets of paper who cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Leader Page The Blessings of Providence on an Association of Archivists crsalgado 03/08/2011 - 5:33pm
Glossary Citation The brightest areas of a subject or an image are called the highlights. An area may be light because of the color of the subject matter, such as pale skin or light-colored clothing, or it may be inherently bright, as with lamps or fire. . . . When films a cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Leader Page The Call from the Grassroots: Rise and Shine crsalgado 03/08/2011 - 5:28pm
Glossary Citation The Canadian preference for the French term fonds to define the records of one creator originated with Towards Archival Descriptive Standards, which purposefully chose it in order 'to avoid certain terminological confusion which has grown around the terms cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Annual Meeting Page The CAPITAL IDEA! Expo cp_admin 02/26/2014 - 7:10pm
News Article The Catalyst Fund: A New Chapter for the SAA Foundation Astoria 07/11/2024 - 10:59am
Group News Item The Challenges and Opportunities of Being Socially Responsible vagtsrac 15 Annual Meeting Task Force (disbanded) 03/09/2026 - 11:53am
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
Annual Meeting Page The Cleveland Orchestra Friday Concert Series crsalgado 01/19/2017 - 11:48am
Promotional Item The Climate Data Harvest Project fowens 12/16/2016 - 5:42pm
Page The Climate Data Harvest Project fowens 12/16/2016 - 5:36pm
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