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Christian van der Ven

Introduce yourself, please! :-) 52 Replies

Hi there! I'm happy to see that you have taken the opportunity to join this social network community! A warm welcome to you!! Since this truly is a professional, social network, I would like to su...

Started by Christian van der Ven. Last reply by Christina G Nov 18.

Thomas Wolf

Dress codes in archives 9 Replies

For some reasons I´m looking for dress codes in archives. Are they existing? Do visitors react on our clothing? Is it really important for our job to be business-like dressed?

Started by Thomas Wolf. Last reply by Falk Liebezeit Nov 3.

Alexandra Eveleigh

Archives, wikis and wikipedia 14 Replies

West Yorkshire Archive Service has been using a wiki internally for about a year now, in order to share information about our collections across our five offices. It has always been the plan to mov...

Started by Alexandra Eveleigh. Last reply by Alexandra Eveleigh Oct 6.

Gary Collins

Web 2.0 from a museum perspective 2 Replies

You may be interested in the 'Working Knowledge' section of the latest Museum Practice Magazine published by the Museums Association (Autumn 2009). It takes a look at what exactly is Web 2.0, blogs...

Started by Gary Collins. Last reply by Alexandra Eveleigh Oct 4.

Pekka Henttonen

Archives 2.0 7 Replies

Have you read what Joy Palmer writes in Adriane? If I summarize it (very strongly) in two points, she says that there are two problems: firstly, surpassing the gap between an archival authority and...

Started by Pekka Henttonen. Last reply by Alexandra Eveleigh Oct 1.

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Sue Donnelly

LSE: a history in pictures

The LSE Archives have just launched a Flickr site (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/) and joined Flickr Commons (http://www.flickr.com/commons).

The site was created as part of our LSE: a history in pictures project and it features various highlights from our image collections, but in particular, we are trying to use the site to create a photographic history of the London School of Economic… Continue

Posted by Sue Donnelly on November 10, 2009 at 4:17pm — 3 Comments

Thomas Wolf

The Dudarew Case

"Professor Suprun is charged with violating Article 137, Part 1 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code — “Illegal gathering of confidential information about an individual’s private life without his or her consent.” In addition, he is suspected of “inciting an official to commit acts that clearly exceed his authority and that led to a significant violation of the rights and legal interests of citizens” (Article 286 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code, in conjunction with Article 33, Part 4)… Continue

Posted by Thomas Wolf on October 29, 2009 at 4:12am

Andrew Flinn

Funded AHRC Phd opportunity at UCL / TNA (UK) User generated content, Archives 2.0 & description

Sorry to everyone who sees this several times in the next couple of days but it is I hope a really good opportunity to do a fully funded PhD on a subject that interests many of us. So please bring this (see below) to the attention of anyone who you think might or should be interested.

We are interested in receiving applications from across the heritage and information disciplines and beyond. Please note very short deadline for applications. Further details are available from… Continue

Posted by Andrew Flinn on October 27, 2009 at 3:36pm

Amanda Hill

"Archives Power" and Archives 2.0

I just read Randall Jimerson's book, Archives Power, which gives a good overview of some of the last quarter-century's developments in archival theory, particularly in the area of accountability, societal memory and social justice.

He touches on Archives 2.0 in Chapter 6, with references to Kate Theimer's Archives 2.0 manifesto and (inevitably, it seems!) the Bentley Library's… Continue

Posted by Amanda Hill on October 22, 2009 at 9:35am — 3 Comments

Thomas Wolf

Blog action day and archives?

Any further suggestions? http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5993527/

Posted by Thomas Wolf on October 15, 2009 at 9:23am — 2 Comments

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