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Glossary Citation The life cycle model for managing records, as articulated by Theodore Schellenberg and others, has been the prominent model for North American archivists and records managers since at least the 1960s. . . . This model portrays the life of a record as goin cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Group News Item The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic (Museum of Disability History) hbarlow 1 Human Rights Archives Section 04/01/2025 - 7:28am
Group News Item The Local Government Records Roundtable will meet in Cleveland on Friday August 21 at 4:30 archivist405@gm... Local Government Records Section 06/12/2015 - 1:59pm
Timeline Event The Lone Arranger: Succeeding in a Small Repository crsalgado 08/15/2012 - 4:55pm
Consultant The Luster Company dsl21 12/07/2021 - 4:57pm
Glossary Citation The macro-appraisal model developed first to appraise the records of the Government of Canada, for example, finds sanction for archival appraisal value of determining what to keep and what to destroy, not in the dictates of the state, as traditionally, no cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Program Course The Making of Americans: Material Culture and the Immigrant Experience Brugg25174 04/01/2010 - 3:31pm
Glossary Citation The managerial philosophy that emerged, first in the railroads and later in manufacturing firms, sought to achieve better control of business processes and outcomes by imposing system, in great part through formal communication. According to this philoso cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Blurb The March/April Issue of Archival Outlook is Here! zimmeralc 03/09/2017 - 5:47pm
Glossary Citation The Master Record of Manuscript Collections serves as the basic guide to the division's collections. It consists of Master Record I, a brief checklist of all collections in the division's custody, and Master Record II, a more comprehensive catalog contain cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The medium is the physical material, whether in the form of a disk or a tape, used to store computer data. The material, whether it is a thin layer of iron oxide sprayed on a paper, plastic, or a metal base, or whether it is a thin sheet of aluminum foil cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The memo1, too, was a product of the search for speed, efficiency, and standardization. It arose most directly from the letter. Letters as a form of personal correspondence had of course existed for many centuries. They were already used in commerce, m cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The mere existence of a record does not ensure that it will faithfully represent a transaction or an event; its credibility must be ensured through the establishment of reliable methods and procedures for its creation, maintenance, and use over time. A so cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The methodology for designing and implementing recordkeeping systems . . . helps organisations (i) identify what records they should make and keep to satisfy their business needs, accountability requirements and community expectations; (ii) develop and im cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:10pm
Glossary Citation The most basic business system and the heart of most organizations is the Transaction Processing System (TPS). . . . The primary goal of these systems is to automate computing intensive business transactions, such as those undertaken in the financial and cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The most important extrinsic element of medieval documents, and the least common and relevant in contemporary documents, is the seal2. Examining seals, diplomatists focus their attention on the material they are made of, their shape, size, typology (as i cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The most pervasive characteristic of bureaucracy is the existence of a system of control based on rational rules, that is, rules meant to design and regulate the entire organization on the basis of technical knowledge and with the aim of achieving maximum cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:10pm
Glossary Citation The name is derived from that of an ad hoc group of CD-ROM researchers and developers which named itself the High Sierra Group following a meeting at the High Sierra Hotel at Lake Tahoe, California. . . . A modified version of the High Sierra format was a cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators is a professional organization dedicated to the effective use and management of government information and publicly recognizing their efforts and accomplishments. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
News Article The National Coalition for History launches new website crsalgado 6 12/23/2025 - 5:53am
Glossary Citation The National Forum on Archival Continuing Education (NFACE), held April 27–29, 2000, in Decatur, Georgia, was a response to a profession-wide call for attention to continuing education. The Forum's 120 participants included representatives from more than cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) is a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress. On the basis of cataloging data supplied by eligible repositories, NUCMC catalogers create MARC (Machine R cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Book page The National World War II Museum crsalgado 07/11/2013 - 1:20pm
Book page The Nature of Records and Archives cp_admin 07/22/2009 - 3:39pm
News Article The New Arrangement and Description Certificate Program crsalgado 7 11/18/2025 - 3:04am