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Analytical (sometimes called critical) bibliography, and its related studies of historical, textual, and descriptive bibliography, is the 'study of books as material objects.' It is a specialty within library and humanistic spheres that studies the book a |
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The USA organization for issuing recommendations as to the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. . . . From 1918, when it was founded, until 1966 it was known as the American Standards Association (ASA) and from then until Octobe |
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The American Association for State and Local History provides leadership, service, and support for its members, who preserve and interpret state and local history in order to make the past more meaningful in American Society. |
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[amendment] 1. A change made in proposed legislation after it has been formally introduced. An amendment may be proposed by the committee to which the bill was referred, or it may be proposed by a Member from the floor of either House when it is brought u |
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It has been stated that the amendment of a record should be made not by erasures and interlineations on the record book but by drawing out the amendment in form and annexing it to the books where the original is recorded, so that the whole matter will app |
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The record cannot be altered so as to show anything not in the instrument recorded at the time of the original record. |
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Alteration of records is analogous to the destruction of records in that the original informational content of the records is obliterated and rendered unavailable for future use. |
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Alphanumeric filing may use a combination of personal or business names and numbers, or more commonly, subject names and numbers. Once the alphabetic divisions or topic headings and appropriate subdivisions have been determined, number categories can be a |
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Papers which are to remain acid free for long periods of time, e.g., 500 years, should have approximately 3% precipitated carbonate by weight of paper. |
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[albumen process] Negatives: An old process invented by Niepce de St. Victor, in 1848. Glass was coated with albumen containing potassium iodide, and the film was sensitized by dipping in a nitrate of silver bath. Many modifications followed, but probabl |
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The first workable collotype process made known; invented by Josef Albert of Munich. . . . The process is said to give prints with fine half-tones, but it requires considerable care and experience in manipulation, much depending on the printing. |
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Another aspect of 'agency records' is the concept of 'personal records'. In the leading case on this point, the court held that notes made by an agency employee could be his own and outside the FOIA concept of 'agency records' if they were made and kept |
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Since FOIA applies only to agency records, the mere fact that an item is a record does not automatically mean that it can be reached by a FOIA request. There has been an increasing amount of litigation over this issue of whether records are also agency re |
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'Admissibility' can best be thought of as a concept consisting of two quite different aspects: disclosure to the trier of fact and express or implied permission to use as 'evidence.' If we think of admissibility as a question of disclosure or nondisclosur |
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The key to establishing admissibility as business records is to integrate their creation and maintenance into the records management program prior to the initiation of any litigation. The controlled creation and retention of documents for business purpose |
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Administratively controlled information is information which must not be released for public dissemination. This includes FOIA-exempt information, Privacy Act restricted information, and other information to which access is restricted such as individual m |
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Public access to Government information is in the best interests of a free society. However, classified material (relating to the national defense or conduct of foreign policy) or administratively controlled information (relating to individuals – subject |
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The ability of records to leave behind evidence for such matters as the proper calculation of Easter and 'all things necessary for the celebration of festal days' were examples of the administrative usefulness of records, one of the traditional justificat |
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Administrative metadata comprises both technical and preservation metadata, and is generally used for internal management of digital resources. Administrative metadata may include information about rights and reproduction or other access requirements, sel |
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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 |
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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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The addressee is the person to whom the document is directed within its intellectual form, and may or may not coincide with the person to whom the document is issued or delivered. For example, a letter of appointment of a professor is directed to the app |
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[actions (judicial events)] Use generally for any proceedings in court brought by one or more persons against another or others, or by the state against a person or persons, to enforce a private right, redress or prevent a private wrong, or to punish a pu |
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[act3] 1. As used by Congress, a bill that has been passed by one House and engrossed. – 2. As commonly used, a bill that has been passed by both Houses of Congress, enrolled, and either signed by the President or passed over his veto. |
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The process of acquiring records from any source by transfer, donation, or purchase, or the body of records so acquired. |
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