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Glossary Citation In Alliance to End Repression v. Rochford [75 FRD 441, 447 (N.D.Ill. 1977)], the court rejected an objection to discovery requests on the grounds that production of the information would be unduly burdensome because the materials were not in an organized cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Although filing units within series may be single documents or single documents within enclosures or annexes, they are more likely to be assemblages of documents relating to some transaction, person, case, or subject, depending upon the filing policy or s cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The 'fat file' hypothesis put forth in the Massachusetts Supreme Court cases appraisal . . . suggested that the likelihood of case files having archival value increased with their size. [Citing Michael Stephen Hindus, Theodore M. Hammett, and Barbara M. H cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation As exceptional, unusual, or controversial cases almost by definition generate more correspondence than their routine counterparts, such files will be thick and thus easily identifiable even in vast series to be pulled for archival retention. Of course, no cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The head of each Federal agency shall make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and designed to furnish the information cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Every record is, therefore, an element in an ensemble of other records, or better, of recordkeeping structures, functional aggregations constructed by the creator in the course and for the conduct of its activity and, thus, set in a specific juridical/adm cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation [file5] There is a well defined distinction between filing an instrument, and offering it for record or causing it to be recorded. The term 'recorded' signifies copied or transcribed into a permanent book, while the term 'filing' signifies merely deliver cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation A faceted classification differs from a traditional one in that it does not assign fixed slots to subjects in sequence, but uses clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive aspects, properties, or characteristics of a class or specifi cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation A faceted structure relieves a classification scheme from the procrustean bed of rigid hierarchical and excessively enumerative subdivision that resulted in the fixed 'pigeonholes' for subjects that happened to be known or were foreseen when a system was cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Rough minutes are usually signed at the end of the meeting, giving the clerk authority to sign the fair copy as correct next time. Rough minutes may then be destroyed, but if only one fair copy exists, you should retain rough minutes until permanent depos cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Notwithstanding the provisions of sections [17 USCS Sects. 106, 106A], the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, commen cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The substance of the text is usually introduced by the exposition, that is the narration of the concrete and immediate circumstances generating the act and/or document. In documents resulting from procedures, whether public or private, the exposition may cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Where an instrument not entitled to be recorded is recorded, it should be expunged or erased from the record, and appropriate proceedings may be maintained to secure its cancellation. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation With a wealth of features, XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML, and combines the strength of HTML 4 with the power of XML.¶ XHTML 1.0 is the first major change to HTML since HTML 4.0 was released in 1997. It brings the rigor of XML to W cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation XML documents are containers for information. Within the primary container may be information and more containers, which themselves may contain information and more containers. These named containers form neatly hierarchical structures, creating an incr cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Extrinsic elements refer to specific, perceivable features of the record that are instrumental in communicating and achieving the purpose for which it was created. For electronic records, these include: overall presentation features (e.g., textual, graph cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation A growing number of archivists are now urging that archival appraisal return to basics and pay more attention to the documentation of program accountability, which suggests that the informational value of information application systems may be eclipsed by cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The secondary value of records can be ascertained most easily if they are considered in relation to two kinds of matters: 1) the evidence they contain of the organization and functions of the Government body that produced them, and 2) the information they cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Whereas the traditional focus of Management Information Systems (MIS) has been on the storage and processing of large amounts of information, the focus of EIS is on the retrieval of specific information about the daily operational status of the organizati cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation In meatspace, we cheerfully extend the notion of authenticity to much more than objects – in fact, we explicitly apply it to the experiential sphere, speaking of an 'authentic' performance of a baroque concerto or an 'authentic' Hawaiian luau. To the exte cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Exploitation cinema arose as an alternative to Hollywood cinema. While the major studios were forced to follow the Motion Picture Production Code, the exploiteers could film virtually anything they wanted, as long as they wrapped their productions in a cl cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation One of the characteristic features of ancient Athenian democracy was its habit of displaying certain types of state documents on stone stelai – large rectangular slabs of marble. . . . Epigraphists who spend their time studying inscriptions have traditio cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Defects or errors in public records may be corrected in order to make them conform to the facts. However, amendments are subject to the rights of third persons. ¶ Those having authority to do so may correct a record in order to make it conform to t cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Over the past several decades, ethylene oxide gained such wide acceptance in the library and archival preservation world, that in spite of the risks its usage presents, it has not been easy to replace with another fumigant. . . . A little over ten years cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm