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A true series is composed of similar filing units arranged in a consistent pattern within which each of the filing units has its proper place. The series has a beginning and it has an end, and everything between has a certain relationship. The pattern may |
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A Tribute to Archie Motley and Bernice Brack from Former SAA Presidents Steve Hensen and J. Frank Cook |
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A Transformative Experience! |
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A Time to Take Stock |
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A thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary arranged in a known order and structured so that equivalence, homographic, hierarchical, and associative relationships among terms are displayed clearly and identified by standardized relationship indicators that are |
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A Taste of Chicago |
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A superficial examination of a printed index would reveal that search engines available at this writing [2001] could retrieve many of its references from the full text of a work, but it is also clear that they could not build the web of relationships and |
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A statement, transcribed from the item being described, relating to persons responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of the item, to corporate bodies from which the content emanates, or to persons or corporate bodies responsible for the perfor |
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A standard of sufficiently and properly recording actions and/or decisions. Derives from the legal requirement that agency heads 'make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, |
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A standard is simply an agreement on common practices among multiple parties. Standards have been around for a long time – electric current, railroad gauges, the metric system, and even musical notation are examples of standards. However, the processes th |
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A Special Message from SAA's President in Response to the Tragic Events of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 |
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A Silent Promise |
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A sheet of paper 13 × 16 inches, folding to 8 × 13, now called legal size, to distinguish it from letter size or common typewriter paper, which is 8½ × 11 inches. Surviving documents on such paper show that it was watermarked wit |
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A Shared Obsession with Congress: Libraries, Archives, and the “Y” of it All |
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A set of [XML] labels is often called a vocabulary. When large groups of people can accept a common vocabulary, or even declare it a standard of some sort, applications of many different kinds on many different kinds of computers and networks can share an |
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A scroll which the clerk puts on a record to the side of the signatures of the parties to the instrument is a proper representation of a corporate seal2, 3. |
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A Research Agenda for the Society of American Archivists: Open Call for Feedback |
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A reliable record is one that is capable of standing for the facts to which it attests. Reliability thus refers to the truth-value of the record as a statement of facts and it is assessed in relation to the proximity of the observer and recorder to the f |
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A reel |
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A records retention program that reflects consistent procedures based on business needs will generally be legally acceptable. Inconsistent procedures may be viewed as attempts to destroy evidence and circumvent justice. Improper destruction of records 'lo |
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A records continuum perspective can be contrasted with the life cycle model. The life cycle model argues that there are clearly definable stages in record-keeping and creates a sharp distinction between current and historical record-keeping. The record co |
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A record is assumed to be a representation of a fact or act that is memorialized on a physical carrier – that is, a medium – and preserved by a physical or juridical person in the course of carrying out its activities. It follows that a record cannot exis |
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A Quick Guide to Accessibility and Archives |
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A public officer, by virtue of his office, is the legal custodian of all papers, books, and records pertaining to his office. It is his duty to preserve4 the public records, and to ensure that nobody alters or destroys them. He is also responsible for d |
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A proposed approach to the problem of software and hardware dependence is emulation, which aims to preserve the original software environment in which records were created. Emulation mimics the functionality of older software (generally operating systems |
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