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Group News Item THE ARCHIVAL SPIRIT, July 2015 cprietto Archivists of Religious Collections Section 07/16/2015 - 8:54pm
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Group Newsletter The Archival Spirit, July 2018 tmccullough Archivists of Religious Collections Section 07/06/2018 - 3:44pm
Group Newsletter The Archival Spirit, March 1993 tmccullough Archivists of Religious Collections Section 08/26/2021 - 8:33am
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Group News Item THE ARCHIVAL SPIRIT, Spring 2016 cprietto Archivists of Religious Collections Section 02/19/2016 - 8:45am
Glossary Citation The archives should identify its various constituencies in terms of its purpose, plan and implement methods to assess the needs of these groups in relation to the resources of the institution, and devise outreach programs that will fit their needs. Thes cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The Archivist of the United States chairs the Commission and makes grants on its recommendation. The other fourteen members of the Commission represent the President (two appointees), the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the Federal judiciary, th cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The archivists considering the records to be appraised will study their age, volume, and form, and will analyze their functional, evidential, and informational characteristics. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The argument for the use of elevated temperatures in artificial aging relies on the fact that in general a reaction proceeds faster at higher temperatures, which makes it possible to observe its effects, in this case the loss of paper strength, more quick cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The authenticity of a record, or rather the recognition that it has not been subject to manipulation, forgery, or substitution, entails guarantees of the maintenance of records across time and space (that is, their preservation and transmission) in terms cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The author of a work of visual art shall have the right to claim authorship of that work, and to prevent the use of his or her name as the author of any work of visual art which he or she did not create; shall have the right to prevent the use of his or h cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Group Newsletter The Autumn 2015 Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable Newsletter is now available for download! syaco Archivists and Archives of Color Section 12/02/2015 - 11:46am
Page The Backlog zimmeralc 12/15/2016 - 3:08pm
Group News Item The BAPQ Call for Submissions for Corporate Memory Issue dmoore Business Archives Section 01/26/2019 - 1:45pm
Glossary Citation The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The basic SPINDEX II programs provide for the printing of a register (a formatted, narrative collection description or abstract) and an index. The index provides for a primary sort of keywords, alphabetically or chronologically, and a secondary sort by ei cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Group News Item The Basics of a Consulting Business speight28442 23 Independent Archivists Section 05/18/2026 - 8:03am
Group News Item The Basics of Branding speight28442 Independent Archivists Section 01/31/2020 - 5:06pm
Glossary Citation The basis on which appraisal decisions should be made has been the subject of intense professional debate. Some archival theorists, notably Jenkinson, argue that such decisions should not be made by archivists at all, but only by records creators. In th cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
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