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Archival Science
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The theory and study of the safe storage, cataloguing and retrieval of documents and items.
Are Canada's Archives for Sale?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1999
Connexions Archive seeks a new home
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Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
Connexions Library Subject Index
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
A comprehensive subject index of documents in the Connexions Library.
Digital Library Projects: List of digital library projects - Wikipedia
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Double Fold (Wikipedia articles about the book by Nicholson Baker)
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a non-fiction book by Nicholson Baker that was published in April, 2001.
Magazine Archives: List of online magazine archives - Wikipedia
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Public history
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Public history is a term that describes the broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are generally working outside of specialized academic settings.
Repositories of Primary Sources
Eastern United States and Canada
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
The treasures of Timbuktu
The race is on to preserve papers dating back to a west African golden age
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
West African scholars are quickly discovering the wealth of manuscripts burried in and near Timbuktu dating from the 11th century. Governments and universities are building archives in which to house and digitize these important relics.
Web archiving
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Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web and ensuring the collection is preserved in an archive, such as an archive site, for future researchers, historians, and the public.
What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to Them
And The Reasons LC Needs to Maintain Classified Shelving of Books Onsite, And A Way to Deal Effectively with the Problem of “Books on the Fl
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Library cannot solve its space problems by adoption of a “digital strategy”
without seriously damaging our larger mission to promote scholarship of unusual scope and
depth. If the Library’s own access to its own general book collection were to be dumbed
down to only the levels of subject access provided by Google, Amazon, or Internet search
mechanisms, we would effectively be endorsing, and institutionalizing, the level of
ignorance exemplified by the Six Blind Men of India.
What is Going on at the Library of Congress?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC
administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating its professional responsibilities to the national system of shared cataloging, as well as undermining its core mission to acquire, catalog, make accessible, and preserve its own unparalleled holdings–especially its book collections.

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