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Comb jellyfish at the Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2 August 2016. Even though I always make it a point -- at least when I'm p...

Memorial Hall, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 21 October 2015. The 2015 Best Practices Exchange (BPE) ended just ...

Light fixture, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 19 October 2015. The 2015 Best Practices Exchange (BPE) got underwa...

Do you lack hands-on electronic records experience? Are you growing more and more concerned about the floppy disks, CD's, and other port...

If you know what the above means, feel free to skip this post. If you don't, here's an explanation: "CoSA" is the Cou...

 The 2013 Best Practices Exchange (BPE) ended last Friday, and I wrote this entry as I was flying from Salt Lake City to Ohio, where I sp...

 I wasn't feeling particularly well yesterday, and when I walked into the closing discussion of the 2013 Best Practices Exchange (BPE...

Well, this is cool: More Podcast, Less Process is a new podcast that features "archivists, librarians, preservationists, technologists...

Earlier this month, I had the privilege of attending the joint 2013 meeting of the New York Archives Conference and the Archivists Round...

Every semester, San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science offers a series of online colloquia that is freely...

 The 2012 Best Practices Exchange (BPE) ended late yesterday morning, and my colleague Michael and I did some sightseeing in Anna...

Yesterday was the second day of the 2012 Best Practices Exchange, and the sessions I attended were delightfully heavy on discussion and i...

Today was the first day of the 2012 Best Practices Exchange (BPE), an annual event that brings together archivists, librarians, IT profe...

The Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) is creating a Digital Preservation Q...

We information professionals have long asserted that the transition from paper- and film-based to digital means of recording information wil...

In no particular order, some electronic records news that may be of interest: The thoughtful and hard-working folks at the South Carolina De...

The Library of Congress's Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) initiative has a new online calendar of online and in-pers...

I've made it back to Albany and am wading through piles of mail and other stuff that either accumulated in my absence or simply wasn...

Last week, my intrepid colleague Michael and I started playing around with Archivematica , the first open-source, Open Archival Information ...

Earlier today, Rolling Stone posted an article (which also appears in the December 23, 2010-January 11, 2011 edition of the print magazin...