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News Article The National Coalition for History launches new website crsalgado 9 05/04/2026 - 4:22pm
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 - 1:11pm
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 - 1:12pm
Book page The National World War II Museum crsalgado 4 07/11/2026 - 3:33am
Book page The Nature of Records and Archives cp_admin 07/22/2009 - 4:39pm
News Article The New Arrangement and Description Certificate Program crsalgado 8 05/13/2026 - 12:57am
News Article The New Book on Processing Is Here! crsalgado 4 06/29/2026 - 2:10pm
Blurb The New Book on Processing Is Here! crsalgado 08/20/2012 - 2:31pm
Group News Item The New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Latino Oral History Initiative Launches Bilingual Digital Resources, by Hannah Gill malarson Oral History Section 01/12/2016 - 4:39pm
Glossary Citation The nontrivial explication or extraction of information from data, in which the information is implicit and previously unknown; an example is identification of the pattern of use of a credit card to detect possible fraud. The data is normally accessed fro cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Blurb The November/December Issue of Archival Outlook Is Here! zimmeralc 11/13/2017 - 3:31pm
Glossary Citation The number of folds which a specimen (usually paper) will withstand before failure, under controlled conditions in a specified instrument. In the usual test, a specimen is subjected repeatedly to double folds through a wide angle while under tension. Fold cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Group News Item The NYPD kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints for Years (The Intercept) hbarlow 1 Human Rights Archives Section 04/18/2026 - 3:41am
Glossary Citation The OAI technical framework is intentionally simple with the intent of providing a low barrier for participants. Protocols such as Z39.50 have more complete functionality; for example, they deal with session management and results sets and allow the spec cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The objectives of FTP are 1) to promote sharing of files (computer programs and/or data), 2) to encourage indirect or implicit (via programs) use of remote computers, 3) to shield a user from variations in file storage systems among hosts, and 4) to trans cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The objectives of the pretrial discovery are to enhance the truth-seeking process, to enable attorneys to better prepare and evaluate cases, to eliminate surprises, and to insure that judgments rest on the merits and not upon the skillful maneuvering of c cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The objectives of the research project are: to establish what a record is in principle and how it can be recognised in an electronic environment; to determine what kind of electronic systems generate records; to formulate criteria that allow for the app cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Consultant The ONDA Group Lowell 01/18/2019 - 4:07pm
Glossary Citation The other extrinsic element which used to have great significance for diplomatists, but progressively lost it, is the script1. While it is the task of paleography to determine what type of script is proper to an era and an environment, it is the task of cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Group News Item The path to colonial reckoning is through archives, not museums (Al Jazeera) hbarlow 1 Human Rights Archives Section 04/18/2026 - 4:02am
Glossary Citation The PEM calculates and displays, in real time, values that reflect the decay rate of organic materials stored in that location. These values, known as Preservation Index (PI) and Time-Weighted Preservation Index (TWPI), show how temperature and humidity c cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Book page The Pennsylvania State University (Essay) akhartman 7 06/28/2026 - 3:32am
Glossary Citation The pervading view of archives as sites of historical truth is at best outdated, and at worst inherently dangerous. The archival record doesn't just happen; it is created by individuals and organizations, and used, in turn, to support their values and mi cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The philosophy of management that evolved in response to new needs, later to be labeled systematic management, promoted rational and impersonal systems in preference to personal and idiosyncratic leadership for maintaining efficiency in a firm's operation cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Group News Item The Police and the Holocaust: The Role of Police Forces in the Genocide of Jews and Roma (May 30-31, Guatemala City) hbarlow 3 Human Rights Archives Section 05/10/2026 - 1:10pm