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News Article SAA Foundation Board Adopts Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, Awards $30,425 for Education and Publications Development rmueller 06/01/2011 - 6:04pm
Blurb Nominate Prospective Candidates for 2012 Election crsalgado 06/01/2011 - 3:58pm
Blurb Archival Outlook Honored with Hermes Platinum Award crsalgado 05/27/2011 - 12:17pm
News Article SAA Honored with Hermes Award crsalgado 05/27/2011 - 12:16pm
Book page Transformational Courses cp_admin 05/26/2011 - 3:32pm
Book page Tools & Services Courses cp_admin 05/26/2011 - 3:30pm
Book page Tactical & Strategic Courses cp_admin 05/26/2011 - 3:28pm
Book page Foundational Courses cp_admin 05/26/2011 - 2:55pm
Agenda Item May 2011 Council Meeting Minutes cp_admin SAA Council 05/25/2011 - 6:30pm
Agenda Item Adoption of the August 22, 2011, Council Meeting Agenda cp_admin SAA Council 05/25/2011 - 6:29pm
Meeting Agenda August 22, 2011, Council Meeting Agenda cp_admin SAA Council 05/25/2011 - 6:28pm
Glossary Citation The writer is not a clerk or a secretary, because these individuals are not 'persons' with regard to the documents they compile: they are not competent for the articulation of the discourse within the documents, unless they have delegated authority for i cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Here were the oral and literate side by side, but writing has some advantages. In written form, information achieved a stability and durability it would not have so long as it remained only in the mind or in spoken words. What is more, writing was in it cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Project Xanadu, the original hypertext project, is often misunderstood as an attempt to create the World Wide Web. ¶ It has always been much more ambitious, proposing an entire form of literature where links do not break as versions change; where doc cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation If stored in a warm and humid environment, the cellulose content of paper may begin to deteriorate. One sign of such deterioration is that the edges of the paper may begin yellowing. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Forms of the watermark are generally divided into four very broad classes: 1) the very earliest, generally consisting of simple circles, crosses, knots, ovals, three-hill symbols, triangles, and the like, which were easy to construct simply by twisting an cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet. ¶ At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net. . . . the decision wasn't made lightly. Style changes are rarely capricious, since change plays havoc wit cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation If a website of a local department of a political party is part of the general website of that party, it is easier to archive the complete website. Otherwise the danger exists that files, frames or frame sets are missing and that the archives and online cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The term witness, in its strict legal sense, means one who gives evidence in a cause before a court; and in its general sense includes all persons from whose lips testimony is extracted to be used in any judicial proceeding, and so includes deponents and cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation [Tim] Berners-Lee, with a background in system design in real-time communications and text-processing software development, invented the Web while working at CERN, world's largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. ¶ The web was firs cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation At the same time that the rigour of diplomatic criticism is undermined by the inherent ambiguity of the photograph, diplomatics is a useful conceptual tool by which archivists may come to achieve a greater degree of visual literacy, and by that I mean the cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation We hear increasingly of 'visual literacy,' the ability to 'read' pictorial images – still and moving photographs, for example – to answer the surprisingly difficult question of what they are 'about.' cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Our international membership includes information specialists; digital image specialists; art, architecture, film, and video librarians; museum curators; slide, photograph, microfilm, and digital archivists; architectural firms; galleries; publishers; im cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation 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 cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The terms 'waste book', 'daybook', and 'journal' were sometimes used interchangeably. A waste book is simply the rough form of a daybook; 'journal' usually refers to the book used in double entry bookkeeping to separate transactions into debits and credi cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm