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2016

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Review Of Start A Revolution: Stop Acting Like A Library, Philip Shackelford Sep 2016

Review Of Start A Revolution: Stop Acting Like A Library, Philip Shackelford

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Start a Revolution: Stop Acting Like a Library is a convenient and thought-provoking manual for libraries and other cultural institutions interested in enhancing their community presence and marketing efforts. Technology Director Ben Bizzle offers insights gained from experience, marketing results, and other individuals who contribute appendices on related topics.

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Beyond The University: Preserving The Personal @Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Annie Benefiel May 2016

Beyond The University: Preserving The Personal @Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Annie Benefiel

Matt Schultz

Grand Valley State University’s Special Collections and University Archives proactively seeks to expand capacity to curate the complex born-digital materials originating from our faculty, students and student groups. This presentation will highlight three exemplary case studies--The Young Lords of Lincoln Park, the Fei Hu Films records, and The Humans of Grand Valley Project--each of which are collections at GVSU that exemplify our exciting forays into programmatically archiving the personal.
 
More than simply accessioning institutional records, these collections represent the University’s efforts to preserve and promote the distinctive personalities and creative outputs of their donors, as well …

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From Transaction To Interaction: Socio-Materiality, Reliability And Transparency In An Age Of "Unbound Documents", Christopher W. Colwell Jan 2016

From Transaction To Interaction: Socio-Materiality, Reliability And Transparency In An Age Of "Unbound Documents", Christopher W. Colwell

Proceedings from the Document Academy

Social media applications, such as Facebook, have been described as “documents without borders”. (Skare & Lund, 2014). In an Australian Government context these documents (which may also be records) exist outside the boundaries of the organisation to which they relate, and which created them. Unlike other documents in an organisational setting, they are “unbound” from the usual organisational processes of creation, management and control but still subject to relevant legislative and recordkeeping obligations (Hesling, 2014).

This paper explores initial themes from the first case study of a larger doctoral study into the perceptions of records in Australian Government agencies. Among …

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