For those who need a little light reading mid-semester, there are two new GAO reports on National Archives operations:
1) The first reviews NARA information security and controls on their networks and systems;
2) The second covers NARA’s general oversight and management of government records, including its self-assessment survey, it persistent backlog of records requiring preservation, as well as its electronic records initiatives.
Start your week off with a feel-good archival story, by clicking on the link below. CBS on its flagship “60 Minutes” program this last weekend ran a full segment on archives, centered around the publication of Nelson Mandela’s new book, Conversations with Myself. The book features his reflections and stories, his joys and sorrows, taken from his private archives, focusing on the inner motivations animating the public man and international icon. There are lots of shots of archival records and archival stacks from the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Centre for Memory , and the personal and emotive and political and symbolic powers of the archival record are all made abundantly clear. And this is certainly helped by have one of the world’s most articulate archivists, in Verne Harris, speaking on camera several times about Mandela and his archive. It feels good that millions of viewers of that program alone, not counting the internet clips spreading all over, will now have sees
archives in for many a new and such a positive light.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6945453n
Best wishes, Terry
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Archival Studies Program
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This discussion on building participatory archives on the Archives Next blog raises some interesting questions on who the archives are designed for, how should materials/documents be collected, and what the role of the archivist should be in this new model.
http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=1536#more-1536
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