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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
Glossary Citation The Master Record of Manuscript Collections serves as the basic guide to the division's collections. It consists of Master Record I, a brief checklist of all collections in the division's custody, and Master Record II, a more comprehensive catalog contain cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The medium is the physical material, whether in the form of a disk or a tape, used to store computer data. The material, whether it is a thin layer of iron oxide sprayed on a paper, plastic, or a metal base, or whether it is a thin sheet of aluminum foil cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The memo1, too, was a product of the search for speed, efficiency, and standardization. It arose most directly from the letter. Letters as a form of personal correspondence had of course existed for many centuries. They were already used in commerce, m cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The mere existence of a record does not ensure that it will faithfully represent a transaction or an event; its credibility must be ensured through the establishment of reliable methods and procedures for its creation, maintenance, and use over time. A so cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The methodology for designing and implementing recordkeeping systems . . . helps organisations (i) identify what records they should make and keep to satisfy their business needs, accountability requirements and community expectations; (ii) develop and im cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:10pm
Glossary Citation The most basic business system and the heart of most organizations is the Transaction Processing System (TPS). . . . The primary goal of these systems is to automate computing intensive business transactions, such as those undertaken in the financial and cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The most important extrinsic element of medieval documents, and the least common and relevant in contemporary documents, is the seal2. Examining seals, diplomatists focus their attention on the material they are made of, their shape, size, typology (as i cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The most pervasive characteristic of bureaucracy is the existence of a system of control based on rational rules, that is, rules meant to design and regulate the entire organization on the basis of technical knowledge and with the aim of achieving maximum cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:10pm