MARA Blog: Around the Web
Call for Proposals: 2025 Society of Georgia Archivists Annual Meeting
Deadline for proposal submissions is May 30, 2025.
Published by: Andrew Wiegert, April 19th, 2025
Meeting held at Middle Georgia State University in Macon, Georgia on Thursday, October 2, 2025
February is Information Governance Month!!!
Let's celebrate and raise awareness!
Published: January 29, 2025 by Andy Wiegert
February is considered “Information Governance Month” because the third Thursday of February is designated as “Global Information Governance Day” (GIGD), which aims to raise awareness about the importance of information governance practices across organizations.
Nominations Open for SAA 2025 Awards and Scholarships
The deadline for submitting a nomination or application is February 28, 2025
Published: January 29, 2025 by Andy Wiegert
Are you excellent? Do you know someone who is? Do you know someone who would nominate either you or that someone for the aforementioned excellence?
Welp, now’s your chance!
The Society of American Archivists annually recognizes leaders and achievers in the field of archives. SAA offers a variety of professional recognitions and financial assistance through an awards competition, student scholarships, and the naming of Fellows.
Summer 2024 Newsletter available!
Summer 2024, Number 34, Volume 01
Published: August 27, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
https://www2.archivists.org/groups/museum-archives-section/summer-2024-newsletter-available
The 2024 Summer Newsletter includes:
A letter from the outgoing MAS Chair, Tara Laver
A letter from the incoming MAS Chair, Laura Uglean Jackson
News from the MAS section about the recent business meeting
Introducing the National Postal Museum Archives by Mitch Toda
2024-2025 IAAS Election Results
Steering Committee Roster
Published: August 27, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
Dear IAAS members:
We are pleased to announce the International Archival Affairs Section Steering Committee leadership for 2024-2025. Congratulations to our incoming committee members: Jennifer Dantchev (Junior Co-Chair) and Rachel Poppen (the new Steering Committee Member at-Large). Karen Trivette has officially rotated into the Senior Co-Chair role!
National Archives Building Gets Historic Landmark Designation and Plaque
National Archives News WASHINGTON, August 22, 2024
Published: August 27, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/national-archives-building-national-historic-landmark-plaque
The National Archives Building has joined the distinguished ranks of National Park Service-designated National Historic Landmarks. This milestone—held by only 2,600 structures across the country—was achieved in December 2023, and the official plaque was unveiled with a ceremony today, August 22, 2024.
SAA Council Approves Standards Alignment Statement, Pauses Integration with RIC
The next Council meeting will be a hybrid meeting on May 1 and 2
Published: February 29, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
At its February 5–6, 2024, virtual meeting, the SAA Council:
Approved minutes for the October 31–November 1, 2023, Council meeting. Those minutes are now available on the SAA website. (https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/1123-Council-Minutes_Approved.pdf)
Approved the recommendation from the Standards Committee to delay integration with RiC until its application guidelines were fully considered and released. (0224-IV-A-Stands)
A Celebration of Sherlock Holmes
A New and Engaging VCARA Experience
Published: April 1, 2021 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
Join in the fun at the Virtual Center for Archives and Records Administration in Second Life.
- Date: April 3, 2021
- Time: 9-11 a.m. SLT (Pacific)
- SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/178/182/32
Questions: Contact Dr. Pat Franks.
It’s National Archives Month!
Published: October 14, 2019 by Kenna Wulker
October is American Archives Month! This month is all about raising awareness for the archiving profession and remembering why archives are important to our society and history.
An Upgrade for the Wilcox Archives
Published: August 19, 2019 by Kenna Wulker
Thanks to a $300,000 grant, archives at the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia, PA are finally getting the treatment they deserve. In this collection are thousands of various items detailing the history of LGBTQ+ life.
JSTOR Helps Expose History
How a New Database is Preserving History by Making Full Interviews Available for Viewing
Published: August 8, 2019 by Kenna Wulker
JSTOR, commonly used by the academic community, is a database storing academic papers and primary sources. They have recently introduced a new prototype database, Interview Archive, which posts full length, uncut interviews from some of the world’s most influential people.
Photo Archive Sold to the Highest Bidder
Where a 4 Million Item Archive Collection Will End Up
Published: July 29, 2019 by Kenna Wulker
National Treasure at the National Archives?
Published: July 12, 2019 by Kenna Wulker
We’ve all seen it: Nicholas Cage slyly stealing the Declaration of Independence to find hidden treasure map clues while in a twisted Robin Hood-type act, protecting the Declaration from falling into the hands of the rebel treasure hunters. While National Treasure presents a dramatic and over-exaggerated representation of a theft of great proportions, thefts similar can and have occurred, even with some of America’s most precious and prized documents.
Google’s Coldest Storage Service
Published: July 26, 2019 by Katie Kuryla
Among a flurry of storage-related announcements at this year’s Google Cloud Next conference is what Google calls “ice cold storage.”
Australia National Archives is at Risk
Published: July 19, 2019 by Katie Kuryla
Nearly 200,000 hours of recordings containing Australia’s memory are at risk under a looming six-year deadline to save the National Archives’ vulnerable files, its director-general says.
Around the Web: Myspace and the Internet Archive
Published: July 12, 2019 by Katie Kuryla
What happens when Myspace lost millions of audio files for users? Was it right for users to think that Myspace would keeper their files like a digital archive?
Archives Awareness: Charlie Chaplin Archive
Published: June 28, 2019 by Katie Kuryla
If you are a fan of Charlie Chaplin and the silent film era, there is a fascinating online site for both serious researches or regular fans of the film master’s work.
Around the Web: Preservation Standards for the Digital Age
Published: June 21, 2019 by Katie Kuryla
The expansion of standards in a digital era — and the need for interoperability between them — was the topic of a NAB 2019 Birds of a Feather discussion including representatives from five different groups involved with creating and redefining relevant standards: ASC, ETC, MESA, MovieLabs and CineCert.
Around the Web: Where will the Iron Throne end up?
Published: May 17, 2019 by Katie Kuryla
The question for the past 8 season has been who will end up on the Iron Throne? Here’s a non-spoiler (PROMISE THIS IS NON-SPOILER) alert of who will end up on the throne for the series finale! ;-)
Archives Awareness: Digital Archive of the Shoshone Nation
Published: April 29, 2019 by Katie Kuryla
Digital archives are becoming popular in this instantaneous and constant communication world. Who wouldn’t want access to an archive digitally if you cannot make it to the physical location? The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has announced that Utah State University will help to convert and catalog the tribe’s historical documents into a public online archive.