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Glossary Citation The integrity of a record refers to its wholeness and soundness: a record has integrity when it is complete and uncorrupted in all its essential respects. This does not mean that the record must be precisely the same as it was when first created for its i cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
News Article The Interactive Archivist: Case Studies in Utilizing Web 2.0 to Improve the Archival Experience crsalgado 10/27/2010 - 12:43pm
Group News Item The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove (Daily Beast) hbarlow Human Rights Archives Section 03/28/2019 - 9:27am
Glossary Citation The International Council on Archives (ICA) is a decentralized organisation governed by a General Assembly and administered by an Executive Committee. Its branches provide archivists with a regional forum in all parts of the world (except North America); cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Standard The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) cp_admin Standards Committee 08/03/2012 - 3:30pm
Glossary Citation The InterPARES (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) Project is a major international research initiative in which archival scholars, computer engineering scholars, national archival institutions and private industr cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The invention of the postcard created a form where brevity would be the rule rather than the exception. After a short period of experimentation in the private sector, the first postcards used on a mass scale were created by national governments by Austr cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The invocation, that is, the mention of God, in whose name each action had to be done, was present in both public and private documents in the medieval period. It can still be found in documents issued by religious bodies, but more and more rarely. . . . cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The isoperm method arises from one idea: the rate of deterioration of hygroscopic materials such as paper is influenced by the temperature and percent relative humidity of its surrounding environment. The isoperm method combines and quantifies the preser cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Blurb The January/February 2016 issue of Archival Outlook is Here! zimmeralc 01/22/2016 - 4:42pm
Blurb The July/August Issue of Archival Outlook Is Here! zimmeralc 07/11/2017 - 4:50pm
Glossary Citation 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 cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:10pm
Glossary Citation The Latin word evidence means 'that which is manifest of in plain sight.' In its metaphoric sense, evidence is that which brings the invisible (that is, a past event) back into plain sight. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Annual Meeting Page The Liberated Archive Forum Program Now Available mblack 04/03/2017 - 11:08am
Group News Item The Liberated Archive Morning Keynote (SAA 2017) hbarlow Human Rights Archives Section 09/05/2017 - 11:25am
Glossary Citation The Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada are pleased to announce that the harmonized USMARC and CAN/MARC formats will be published in a single edition in early 1999 under a new name: MARC 21. The name both points to the future as we move cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The life cycle model for managing records, as articulated by Theodore Schellenberg and others, has been the prominent model for North American archivists and records managers since at least the 1960s. . . . This model portrays the life of a record as goin cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Group News Item The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic (Museum of Disability History) hbarlow 1 Human Rights Archives Section 04/01/2025 - 7:28am
Group News Item The Local Government Records Roundtable will meet in Cleveland on Friday August 21 at 4:30 archivist405@gm... Local Government Records Section 06/12/2015 - 1:59pm
Timeline Event The Lone Arranger: Succeeding in a Small Repository crsalgado 08/15/2012 - 4:55pm
Consultant The Luster Company dsl21 12/07/2021 - 4:57pm
Glossary Citation The macro-appraisal model developed first to appraise the records of the Government of Canada, for example, finds sanction for archival appraisal value of determining what to keep and what to destroy, not in the dictates of the state, as traditionally, no cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Program Course The Making of Americans: Material Culture and the Immigrant Experience Brugg25174 04/01/2010 - 3:31pm
Glossary Citation The managerial philosophy that emerged, first in the railroads and later in manufacturing firms, sought to achieve better control of business processes and outcomes by imposing system, in great part through formal communication. According to this philoso cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Blurb The March/April Issue of Archival Outlook is Here! zimmeralc 03/09/2017 - 5:47pm