Purpose,intention,goals:what are we doing here?

After writing my most recent post (on blogging and archivists) and reading some interesting and encouraging responses elsewhere (see Archives Next,Curious Child,The Digital Archive,and BlogHer),I decided to try to talk about my purpose in blogging on the archival field,or at least as much as I can condense that intention into [...]

July 31st,2008 | Category:Archives | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

Blogging and the archival profession

 A few weeks ago,over on ArchivesNext,I asked Kate whether her opinions on the archivo-blogosphere had changed in the year since she first started blogging. Go take a look at her well-thought out response. I’ll wait.

In the time since I posed that question,I’ve been mostly away from my desk (or busy with [...]

July 11th,2008 | Category:advocacy,Archives | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Copyright law and freeing the founding fathers

I’ve been recently reading about copyright law as applicable to libraries and archives. My interest in this was partially sparked by a recent patron request for original drafts of materials that may or may not have been published prior to 1923 (still researching on that point). Under the 1976 US Copyright Act,the “fair use”[...]

July 8th,2008 | Category:Archives,books,copyright,NARA | One comment - (Comments are closed)