Category: Library & Information Science
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In this post-truth world, can we still rely on archives to tell the truth?
Facet Publishing have announced the release of The Silence of the Archive by David Thomas, Simon Fowler and Valerie Johnson In recent years big data initiatives, not to mention Hollywood, the video game industry and countless other popular media, have reinforced and even glamorized the public image of the archive as the ultimate repository of […]
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Notes from Personal Digital Archiving 2017
At the end of March I traveled to Palo Alto to attend Personal Digital Archiving, hosted this year by Stanford University Libraries. This was my second time attending PDA (my first being last year, held at the University of Michigan) and my first time presenting at the conference. Over the course of two full days of presentations […]
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The workplace remains a ‘new frontier’ for those who research and think about Information Literacy
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Information Literacy in the Workplace, edited by Marc Forster with a foreword by Jane Secker In today’s information-driven workplace, information professionals must know when research evidence or relevant legal, business, personal or other information is required, how to find it, how to critique it and how to integrate […]
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Spring 2017 Digital Project Review No.3: Robert Cassanello’s review of “The American Archive of Public Broadcasting”
“The American Archive of Public Broadcasting,” accessed November 15, 2016, http://americanarchive.org/ (Library of Congress & WGBH Media Library & Archives) Robert Cassanello, University of Central Florida The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is an online digital repository for radio and television programs created by one hundred and twenty public radio and television stations […]
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How can heritage institutions work with their communities to build broader, more inclusive and culturally relevant collections?
24/2/2017 For immediate release Facet Publishing have announced the release of Participatory Heritage, edited by Henriette Roued-Cunliffe and Andrea Copeland The internet as a platform for facilitating human organization without the need for organizations has, through social media, created new challenges for cultural heritage institutions. Challenges include but are not limited to: how […]
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Five years on and fully revised – new edition of the comprehensive handbook for special collections
Facet Publishing have announced the release of the second edition of The Special Collections Handbook This new edition from Alison Cullingford, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford, is a practical day-to-day companion covering all aspects of special collections work. Working with special collections can vary dramatically from preserving a single rare book to […]
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Archives and Databases
First and foremost, I find Kate Theimer’s view that the definition of archives has become muddled and confused very convincing, if not for my disbelief that I have gone this long without truly understanding what the word means and how it differs from a database. Theimer posits that what defines an archivist’s work is […]
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TEI Header XML tags
The file Header provides the critical metadata needed to identify and cite the file. It is composed of five major components. The fileDesc provides all the necessary information needed to write a conventional bibliography. It in many ways acts a bridge from the old, analog, paper world to the digital. The following four tags are […]
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Books: Warning, Flammable
I love books! When I was younger I would read books at school, at home, in the car, anywhere I could. I loved holding books and hated having to change my position while lying in bed depending on whether I was reading the left page or the right. There is nothing like a printed book. […]
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What to save from the fire: prioritizing texts
The library is burning to the ground, and you have time to save one thing: a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or or the book or manuscript digitally transcribed (that is, typed into a computer file or files). Which one would you save and why? In imaging […]