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Journal of Western Archives

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Review Of Producing The Archival Body, Lara Michels Aug 2021

Review Of Producing The Archival Body, Lara Michels

Journal of Western Archives

Review of Producing the Archival Body by Jamie Lee.


Web Archives For The Analog Archivist: Using Webpages Archived By The Internet Archive To Improve Processing And Description, Aleksandr Gelfand May 2018

Web Archives For The Analog Archivist: Using Webpages Archived By The Internet Archive To Improve Processing And Description, Aleksandr Gelfand

Journal of Western Archives

Twenty years ago the Internet Archive was founded with the wide-ranging mission of providing universal access to all knowledge. In the two decades since, that organization has captured and made accessible over 150 billion websites. By incorporating the use of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine into their workflows, archivists working primarily with analog records may enhance their ability in such tasks as the construction of a processing plan, the creation of more accurate historical descriptions for finding aids, and potentially be able to provide better reference services to their patrons. This essay will look at some of the ways this may …


Review Of Extensible Processing For Archives And Special Collections: Reducing Processing Backlogs, Todd Welch Mar 2015

Review Of Extensible Processing For Archives And Special Collections: Reducing Processing Backlogs, Todd Welch

Journal of Western Archives

Review of Extensible Processing for Archives and Special Collections: Reducing Processing Backlogs.


Review Of How To Manage Processing In Archives And Special Collections, Jillian Cuellar Jul 2013

Review Of How To Manage Processing In Archives And Special Collections, Jillian Cuellar

Journal of Western Archives

Learning to process archival collections as an intern or student processor constitutes many archivists’ first practical understanding of the archival enterprise. Though this experience is an excellent hands-on opportunity for many nascent archivists to sharpen their project management skills, it does not fully prepare them to manage an archival processing program. Few students in archival graduate programs receive in-depth management training, leaving many to learn effective management techniques without formal guidance. With How to Manage Processing in Archives and Special Collections, Pam Hackbart-Dean and Elizabeth Slomba set out to offer archivists a comprehensive, practical toolbox for managing a processing …