Category: Preservation & Archiving

  • The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship wins Art Libraries Society Award

    The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship wins Art Libraries Society Award

    Facet Publishing is pleased to announce that The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship has won the ARLIS/NA Worldwide Books Award for Publications. The second edition of The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship was awarded the Worldwide Books Award for Publications at the 46th Annual Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) conference in New York last […]

  • Disseminating information research worldwide

    Disseminating information research worldwide

    At Facet Publishing we endeavour to commission and publish high quality, authoritative content for the information scholar and practitioner worldwide. We are committed to advancing the profession and publishing material that will prepare and inform students and researchers to meet the challenges of the future. We support scholars and researchers throughout the publishing process ensuring […]

  • A thought-provoking introduction to metadata for all library and information students and professionals

    A thought-provoking introduction to metadata for all library and information students and professionals

    David Haynes has fully revised his classic metadata textbook to bring it up to date with new technologies and standards.  It builds on the concept of metadata through an exploration of its purposes and uses as well as considering the main aspects of metadata management and includes brand new chapters on ‘Very Large Data Collections’ […]

  • Digital Culture Sites that Allison Digs

    Digital Culture Sites that Allison Digs

    Presented here are five different websites that I have discovered over the years which have fostered my interest in digital media. As a prospective graduate student, these sites (in one way or another) have provided inspiration and have shaped my interests in theories related to multimedia and human-computer interaction. All are fairly simple at the […]

  • Making the case for open licensing in cultural heritage institutions

    Making the case for open licensing in cultural heritage institutions

    For immediate release 1st September 2017 Making the case for open licensing in cultural heritage institutions Facet Publishing have announced the release of Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage by Gill Hamilton and Fred Saunderson. In the digital era, libraries, archives, museums and galleries are no longer constrained by the physical limitations of their buildings, analogue […]

  • Twarc: Learning to Extract & Understand Twitter Data

    I’m currently working on a research to document and explore the Twitter resistance movement that’s formed in the wake of the Trump administration. In order to visualize, save, and explore the vast number of tweets that have appeared under various accounts and hashtags during this time, I decided to turn to Twarc.  Developed by Ed […]

  • The ‘why-to’ as well as the ‘how-to’ textbook for archivists

    The ‘why-to’ as well as the ‘how-to’ textbook for archivists

    Facet Publishing have announced the release of the second edition of Laura A Millar’s Archives: Principles and practices Originally published in 2010, the second edition of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award-winning textbook, Archives: Principles and practices, has been extensively revised to address the impact of digital technologies on records and archives. Written in clear language […]

  • In this post-truth world, can we still rely on archives to tell the truth?

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Spring 2017 Digital Project Review No.3: Robert Cassanello’s review of “The American Archive of Public Broadcasting”

    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 […]