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Glossary Citation The historian uses diplomatics as a tool of interpretation, but the archivist uses it for its value for understanding the universal characteristics of the archival document. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The historical society movement in America originated in 1791 when Jeremy Belknap and seven others met to organize the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston [citing Louis Leonard Tucker.] . . . The historical society had become, by [the 1890s], al cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Annual Meeting Page The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. crsalgado 05/19/2014 - 4:45pm
Program Course The History of Administration in the Canadian Juridical Context duranti 04/01/2010 - 4:32pm
Glossary Citation The history of integrated pest management (IPM) traces its first real beginnings to the late 1960s, where a number of factors came together to initiate a search for better methods of pest control than simple reliance on prophylactic pesticide use. These f cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Book page The HistoryMakers Anonymous 1 10/06/2026 - 1:32am
Annual Meeting Page The Host Committee Welcomes You Back to DC crsalgado 03/20/2023 - 11:15am
Annual Meeting Page The Host Committee Welcomes You to New Orleans! crsalgado 04/08/2026 - 5:04pm
Annual Meeting Page The Host Committee Welcomes You to SAA’s Hometown! crsalgado 02/09/2024 - 3:53pm
Group News Item The House Archives Built by Dorothy Berry (up//root) hbarlow 1 Human Rights Archives Section 04/18/2026 - 3:17am
Group News Item The ICRC and the protection of prisoners of war: highlights from the ICRC Library’s collections (CROSS-files Blog) hbarlow 1 Human Rights Archives Section 04/18/2026 - 3:23am
Glossary Citation The idea of business process re-engineering was invented in 1990 by two Americans, James Champy and Michael Hammer, and it was pioneered in practice by a number of US firms. The redesign process seeks to determine how information flows through a business cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Timeline Event The Image of Archivists : Resource Allocators' Perceptions bhouston 09/07/2011 - 5:04pm
Glossary Citation The important advantage of middle-digit filing in comparison to straight numeric filing is its almost perfect distribution of folders throughout the entire system. This makes it possible to place responsibility for accuracy in filing on the clerk assigned cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Group News Item The Independent Archives Social Hour is this Wed. March 16th virginia@archiv... Independent Archivists Section 03/14/2022 - 7:23pm
Timeline Event The Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) vonru22605 05/17/2011 - 4:07pm
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 - 1:11pm
News Article The Interactive Archivist: Case Studies in Utilizing Web 2.0 to Improve the Archival Experience crsalgado 1 08/07/2026 - 3:43am
Group News Item The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove (Daily Beast) hbarlow 1 Human Rights Archives Section 04/18/2026 - 4:02am
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 - 1:11pm
Standard The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) cp_admin Standards Committee 08/03/2012 - 4:30pm
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 - 1:11pm
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 - 1:12pm
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 - 1:11pm
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 - 1:11pm