http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/archives.htm

National Archives building Columbia

See also the database of Canadian stamps at
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/020117_e.html

A state archivist looted a treasure-trove of historic artifacts from the New York State Library - including documents about Davy Crockett - and hawked them to pay off his daughter's credit card debt, authorities said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/01/29/2008-01-29_archivist_steals_historic_artifacts_from-1.html

From Archives List:

> There's a show on C-SPAN about presidential libraries. Here're what the draft plans for the George W. Bush Library now call for:
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> The Alberto Gonzales Room - Where you can't remember any of the exhibits.
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> The Hurricane Katrina Room - It's still under construction.
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> The Texas Air National Guard Room - Where you don't have to even show up.
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> The Walter Reed Hospital Room - Where they don't let you in.
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> The Guantanamo Bay Room - Where they don't let you out.
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> The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room - Nobody has been able to find it.
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> The War in Iraq Room - After you complete your first tour, they can force you to go back for your second and third and fourth and fifth tours.
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> The K-Street Project Gift Shop - Where you can buy an election, or, if no one cares, steal one.
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> The Men's Room - Where you could meet a Republican Senator (or two).
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> To be fair, the President has done some good things, and so the museum will have an electron microscope to help you locate them.
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> When asked, President Bush said that he didn't care so much about the individual exhibits as long as his museum was better than his father's.
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http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i20/20a01902.htm (Subscribers only) has a very short interview with Peter Brantley (see http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4585407/ )

Excerpt:

Q. Why are you concerned about Google Book Search?

A. The quality of the book scans is not consistently high. The algorithm Google uses to return search results is opaque. Then there's the commercial aspect. Google will attempt to find ways to make money off the service.

Q. Shouldn't Google be commended for helping to preserve library books?

A. The company is not preserving books. It is creating an archive for Google's own purposes.

Q. How does Google Book Search hurt libraries?

A. The libraries have to make a significant commitment in terms of getting their books to Google. The books have to come off the shelves. Then after being scanned they have to be put back on the shelves. And this resource drain is going to limit the ability of libraries to engage in other activities.

Q. Why are you opposed to an out-of-court settlement to the Google lawsuit?

A. A settlement leaves unresolved how people can use out-of-print books whose owners cannot be identifiednorphan worksnand the question of what is fair use regarding digitized books.

Q. How should Google treat orphan works?

A. No one should be making money from these. Yet that will happen because their [copyright] status is unknown.

Q. What would be a good outcome to the litigation?

A. Having a court determine once and for all that it is fair use to digitize a copyrighted work and make a snippet of it publicly available.

Example from archives-l:

The American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, has recently deaccessioned two collections because they no longer fit our collecting policy. If interested, or if you have questions, please contact me off-list at luglean@uwyo.edu.

1. Wilbur Topham collection: 6.5 cubic feet of vinyl records of a mix of music (jazz, country, blues) from the 1940s-1970s. Albums include:
"Lost April/Nature Boy" by The King Cole Trio
"Flo from St. Joe Moe/Suspicion" by Tex Williams
"I'm Happy Being Me/Words" by Mills Brothers
"Pilgrim's Song/None But the Lonely Heart" by Nelson Eddy

This collection has an itemized list that I would be happy to email you. Please note we would like to send the collection as a whole.

2. Lowell D. Ashby: 25 cubic feet of material related to Ashby's professional career and economics in North Carolina and the South. Ashby received degrees from Hastings College (1936), the University of Nebraska (1938), and the University of Wisconsin (1948). He was a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, worked at the Department of Commerce (1962-1981), and managed the Potomac Investment Club.

Includes Department of Commerce reports and publications, college and military service records, and Southern Regional Science Association material, journals, and publications. Please email for a more descriptive summary.

Thank you,

Laura Uglean
Archival Specialist
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
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"What is an Archivist" looks at the various tasks that archivists perform, from both the good and bad perspective. The video is based off of the ACA handout of the same name and was created for a class at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto.
Wäre dies auch etwas für unsere Ausbildungseinrichtungen ?

Quelle:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xu6sRNpnDSU

Wikimedia Commons.

(c) Giovanni Dall'Orto