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The National Library first acquired papers of a Prime Minister, Sir Edmund Barton, in 1929. In the next fifty years it sought the papers of every Prime Minister, dead or alive. Negotiations were frequently protracted and frustrating, but ultimately the success rate was high: the Library now holds the personal archives of eleven Prime Ministers and smaller collections of another four. Since 1980 it has deferred to the National Archives in collecting further papers of Prime Ministers and has instead placed greater emphasis on making the existing collections better known and encouraging their use by researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Presents an inventory on three volumes of the archives of Renaissance painter Giorgio Vasari at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Highlights of the archives; Document on the work of Vasari on the decoration of the cupola of Florence Cathedral in Italy; Insights on account books in the archives.

Presents several archives and manuscripts collection in the Fiji Museum. Preservation of microfilm copies of archives and manuscripts by the Pacific Manuscript Bureau (PMB); Procedure for the storing of microfilm copies; Lists of documents microfilmed by the Bureau of PMB.

Presents several Pacific sources filmed in 1983-98 by the Australian Joint Copying Project. Number of reels in the Public Record Office Series and the Miscellaneous Series; Diversity of filmed Pacific records; Contents of the PRO6093-6118 P.R.O. 30/6. Carnarvon Papers, 1858-85.

In 2005 Rev. Michael Roden, the vicar at Church of England church of St Mary's in Hitchin (a small town about 30 miles north of London) was invited to India to give a series of sermons to Indian Church of England congregations. He was struck during his visit by the scars in Indian society that he thought were the remnants of Partition's aftermath. His visit set him thinking about the ways in which Partition has shaped British as well as Indian and Pakistani society, and about how little people in the UK know about the calamitous results of British policy at the time of decolonization. In particular, he wondered about why it was the case that Partition had never been taught in schools in the UK, and why children were coming out of school with no understanding of the forces which had created a multi-cultural society in the UK over the course of the twentieth century. Reverend Roden contacted the University of Cambridge's Centre of South Asian Studies and set in train a series of events that would lead to Partition being included in the curriculum of all Church of England schools in England and Wales. This process was to engage politicians, academics, playwrights, television companies and members of the general public. It would lead to more than teaching in the classroom – a swathe of television documentaries, for example, were broadcast around he 70th anniversary of Partition in 2017, providing information about a part of the shared UK/South Asian past which has been largely neglected in Britain. Alongside this process, the Centre of South Asian Studies also prepared an exhibition of materials from its own archive collections which ran from August 2017 and drew in thousands of visitors. This paper will examine the ways in which the process of presenting Partition to the people of the UK was fashioned and followed, and the nature of the output which resulted from it, looking at the ways in which academe can interact with public opinion and public knowledge in meaningful and positive ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The National Archives of Australia holds the papers of many of Australia's Prime Ministers, including Bruce, Lyons, Curtin, Chifley, Holt, Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke, Keating and Howard. From 2000 it undertook a four-year Prime Ministers' Papers Project to locate the records of all 25 men who have held the position of Prime Minister of Australia. The Australia's Prime Ministers portal website was launched in 2002 and the Archives is also producing a series of guides to the archives of Prime Ministers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Western Pacific Archives in their New Home [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current and future geographic field research will continue to face multiple challenges of finding, preserving, curating, publicizing, and ultimate deposition of field research materials. Every step of this trajectory of archiving involves logistical and ethical problems at both the personal and collective levels. This paper provides thoughts on my personal experiences with these issues and is meant to be provocative rather than prescriptive. Professional organizations should be more involved with brainstorming a range of solutions to these challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unlike many archival organisations, the University of Melbourne's eScholarship Research Centre (ESRC) is not a custodial repository or a teaching facility. This allows the centre to collaborate with a wide range of organisations and individuals, bringing archival thinking and practice to a variety of sectors, many of which are not traditionally associated with information professionals. Central to all the ESRC's work is the importance of effectively documenting things and their context. This paper draws on project examples, the author's PhD research and key concepts from archival and knowledge management theory to explore the idea that effective documentation requires more than a focus on items and collections. Instead, it requires working with individuals, organisations and documentary resources (published and unpublished) to reveal explicit connections and capture implicit knowledge in ways which more accurately reflect the complexity of collections and the entities needed to understand them. These ideas are introduced using two examples: a series of projects carried out over many years with the Victorian Government's Department of Primary Industries and its successors and The Australian Ballet. The paper then uses key concepts from this work to explore the nature of museum documentation and some of the limitations of current practice in museums, including the specific example of the Nordström mining models held by Museum Victoria. Thinking about these issues in the digital world, and applying archival thinking, the author argues for better connections between collection materials, not through convergence but by expanding our concept of collection documentation to include the relationships between things as things in their own right. Arguing for the practical benefits of such a change, the paper concludes by suggesting that testing these ideas in a museum context has the potential to further develop the ideas of the ESRC in ways which will benefit society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Preserving and providing access to local archives is one of the roles performed by public libraries in New South Wales. This role is not mandated, nor is it a stated priority for public libraries. Local government records are regulated by legislation, but what of the other records documenting the lives of rural and city communities? In many cases the library’s local studies collection becomes the default home of the archives of local community organisations and of individuals whose personal papers are acquired by libraries. In some cases, the library shares the role of maintaining local archives with historical societies, museums and universities. The result is a functioning example of distributed custody, where public libraries and other local institutions take responsibility for local archives. This paper is a case study that draws on two major surveys of local studies collections undertaken by the State Library of NSW, the first in 1984 and the second in 2013–2014. It concludes that public libraries have been critical for over 50 years in ensuring that local archives have been acquired and managed, despite there being no explicit regulatory or policy frameworks for doing so. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The document is a correction notice for an article titled "A center-based, ambulatory care concept for hidradenitis suppurativa improves patient outcomes and is also cost-effective" published in the Journal of Dermatological Treatment. The correction addresses errors in Figure 4 of the Cost-Effectiveness Plane and the title of the paper. The corrected figure is provided, and the correct title should be "A center-based, ambulatory care concept for hidradenitis suppurativa improves patient outcomes and is also cost-effective." The article is published under an Open Access license. [Extracted from the article]

This document is an obituary for Peter Houghton, a respected professor of Pharmacognosy at Kings College London. Houghton was a passionate pharmacist and a long-term associate editor of the journal Pharmaceutical Biology. He made significant contributions to the field of pharmacognosy and published over 250 research papers and reviews on various topics related to plant chemistry and biological activity. Houghton was also known for his dedication to teaching and mentoring students. He will be remembered as a kind and supportive colleague who had a profound impact on the academic community. [Extracted from the article]

In 2014, as part of their centenary celebrations, the Australian Red Cross initiated a project in which it transferred archives to various national, state and territory institutions across Australia including the University of Melbourne Archives and the State Library of New South Wales. The transfer of this voluminous (but not complete) collection built on earlier transfers of archives to the State Library of South Australia and the Australian War Memorial. This paper charts the origins of the plan to donate the records to public repositories. It interrogates the societal provenance of those collections, recognising that the pluralising of records is an historical process, in which the agency of archivists, historians and administrators must be understood. An investigation of Red Cross records in Australia exposes that process in its contingency, inertia and, ultimately, enthusiasm. The paper also reveals the challenges faced by voluntary organisations in preserving their records, and how historians and archivists both can benefit from assisting such organisations. Finally, this paper argues that the 'Gift to the Nation' project, with its national and international significance, reflects a shift in our understanding of the First World War to a transnational paradigm that recognises the important role of voluntary organisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Library history has constituted a significant portion of the research articles published in the Australian Library Journal and in Australian Academic & Research Libraries. By contrast, archives history has attracted much less interest from researchers publishing in Archives and Manuscripts. The author uses these articles together with papers delivered at the seven Australian Library History Forums convened between 1984 and 1996 to provide snapshots of library and archives history producers and production in an attempt to explain this disparity. He demonstrates that research higher degrees have strongly driven the production of library (and, to a lesser extent, archives) history but suggests that archives and records professionals have been more ambivalent towards history and historical studies than their library counterparts. The roots of this ambivalence may lie in debates over library control of archives and the professional identity of archivists in the 1950s and 1960s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Describes the contents of the business records collection in the archives of Plymouth City Library as of June 1, 1961.

The Australian Federal Government's Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) has built an important collection of learning and teaching resources for the higher education (HE) sector, a product of the many projects OLT and its precursors, including the Australian Learning and Teaching Council and the Carrick Institute, have funded over the past two decades. Although these resources are freely available on its website, the OLT considers them underutilised. Hence it has commissioned a project to reorganise the collection using more accurate and consistent metadata. This paper presents the results of the initial phase of the project, in which a new metadata schema for the OLT's repository was developed through a systematic analysis of the collection, users' and prospective users' search needs, and the domain of HE learning and teaching. While the methods used to develop controlled vocabularies, such as subject thesauri, are well established, there has been far less discussion about how schemas for describing particular kinds of information resource should be constructed. This article contributes to this discussion by showing how methods used to build controlled vocabularies can be applied, and combined, to the development of a schema used to support effective access to a scholarly repository of national importance. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Historians, as users of archives, often discuss the thrill and emotion of their ‘discoveries’. We can form romantic attachments or be repulsed across the decades. Archives containing the physical remains of the past can transport us, we can move beyond the here and now. Before the Museum of Melbourne digitised Alfred Howitt’s correspondence, I once opened a letter written to him on classic nineteenth-century blued paper. As I pulled the missive from its envelope, I could smell tobacco smoke. I was immediately in the room with him. Recently, after completing an article on the topic of frontier violence, my co-author and I both described a feeling of stress and trauma that came from reading colonial records of ‘skirmishes’ and ‘dispersals’. In this paper, I want to reflect on the experience of Affect in the archive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we examine business history’s relationship to narrative history writing. In so doing we respond to the Call for Paper’s question: ‘storytelling vs business history: do business historians create narratives and in what ways?’ We survey attitudes in business history to narrative history writing, the relationship between archive, narrative, and historical knowledge claims, and the importance of writing practices and qualities. We report the results of interviews with practicing business historians and conclude that whilst the discipline has an ambiguous relationship with narratives and narrative history writing, there is a recognition that all historians are to an extent engaged in the construction of narratives, whenever they write. We argue that a re-engagement with narrative history writing might provide a way of resolving a current epistemological impasse between realist and interpretivist positions. Ultimately, any narrative turn in business history will be incomplete without an examination of the status of narrative history writing within the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2011, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in the USA faced worldwide attention when it was revealed that thousands of documents had been stolen from its collection, including rare Civil War documents and presidential papers. The response by NARA was to create a Holdings Protection Team, with the task of overseeing and managing the collection security at NARA's multiple locations across the United States. In this paper NARA's strategy for collection security management (CSM) is placed alongside current research into CSM in libraries and archives to demonstrate how NARA exhibits a 'house' model of collection security, as seen through their slogan 'Protect Our House'. From this discussion, some lessons for Australia are explored, with calls for some specific CSM guidelines from Australia's professional bodies in the information sector, such as the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With an online presence now paramount, many libraries, archives and museums have created, or are looking to create, a social media policy; one that will dictate an accepted level of interaction and outline how practitioners within these cultural heritage institutions use social media. But is the use of social media policy in direct defiance of the purpose of social media? And more importantly, is it practical for cultural heritage institutions to have one? This paper aims to answer these questions by reporting on the results of a study into the social media policy experiences of practitioners at the State Library of Queensland, Queensland State Archives and Queensland Museum. Findings from this study indicate that it is practical for cultural heritage institutions to have a social media policy if it inspires confidence, empowers practitioners, and encourages them to use social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a brief overview of the concept of the transnational archive as a counterpoint to the idea that a national archive is necessarily a locus of a static idea of nation. The Canadian national archives is used as a case study of an archives that was transnational in its inception, and one that has continued to change in its mandate and materials as a response to patterns in migration and changing notions of multiculturalism as a Canadian federal policy. It introduces the most recent formation of the transnational archive and its denizens: the genealogical archive inhabited by family historians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The library of the Supreme Court of Victoria has a long history, much of it well documented. However, the historical artefacts related to the evolution of the library are difficult to access, limiting their use as a guide to past practice, or as something useful to inform activities in the future. This paper uses cases from the library's history to discuss why historical records should be reconstituted into formal organisational memory in order to strategically and culturally inform the future in a way that is not possible if the documents remain inaccessible or 'dead'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the major roles adopted by libraries is the long-term preservation of selected material within their collections. Traditionally, this role comprised identifying individual physical objects or collections based upon the library's own view of its role and the significance of items in its collections. With the rapid growth of digital materials there has been a blurring of the divide between museum, archive and library collections, with a growing concern amongst all cultural heritage sectors about the identification and ongoing preservation of digital objects. Due to the size and complexity of the issues and, in particular, the volume of digital material and costs involved in its long-term preservation, there has been a resurgence in the debate on identifying significance in materials and thus their priority in preservation programs. This debate has sparked widespread discussion in the museum, archives and recordkeeping professions which can inform the more recent concerns now being voiced within librarianship. This paper looks at the concept of significance within all of the 'memory institutions' and considers how the theory is shaped, how it has been put into practice and the applicability of such a notion to digital preservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on the selection and access of modern public records in Great Britain. A definition of public records as defined in the Public Records Acts of 1958 is given. It enumerates the elements of authority and responsibility from which the system and procedures laid down in the 1954 Report of the Grigg Committee and the Public Records Acts of 1958 and 1967 for dealing with selection and access were based on. It also presents information on the provisos to ensure that an administrative criterion at First Review would be synonymous with a historical criterion.

The article focuses on John English who was a member of a family of needle manufacturer in Feckenham village. English was the most remarkable member of a family whose needle-making business survived at Feckenham, a village near Redditch, Worcestershire, for over 170 years. English had personal charge of it for more than half a century until his death on January 31, 1876 at the age of 88. The article is based on the original, unpublished source material in the English Collection at Redditch Public Library and the Gutch Archives, at Worcester Record Office. Together these form a vast collection of personal papers, deeds, business ledgers, correspondence, bills and many other items. Job English founded the business about 1750, at a time when the Needle District of East Worcestershire and West Warwickshire was becoming the most important centre of production in Great Britain for needles and fishhooks. London, England and subsequently Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire had been the important centres of needle making in earlier times.

The City of Sydney adopted a user centred design approach to transform its archives systems and processes to meet user needs. Key to the transformation was a project to design and implement a new archives management system, complete with digital preservation functionality and a publicly accessible user portal. This paper examines tensions between archival practice and the user experience, and what actually happens when the user is placed at the centre of design initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There's a classic motto that reads like this: Another world is possible. The aim of this study is to reflect: Is another archive possible? Are the archives created with the collection of material from social movements, such as the 15 M movement in Spain, or from the public's repulsion towards terrorist attacks, as happened with the September 11 terrorist attack in the United States, or the 11 March 2004 (11M) attack in Madrid, really archives? This is what the author will investigate in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article titled "Physcion inhibition of CYP2C9, 2D6 and 3A4 in human liver microsomes" in Pharmaceutical Biology contained several errors when it was first published online. The errors included an incorrect legend in Figure 5A, an incorrect sentence in the "Study design" subsection, and an incorrect sentence in the "Discussion" section. These errors have been corrected and the article has been republished online. [Extracted from the article]

In the call for papers for this special issue, a lack of dialogue was noted between 'archivists and literary scholars'. This article has arisen from a collaboration across that divide, between two individuals who between them embody multiple identities of archivist and publisher, archival and literary scholar. The purpose of this collaboration was to establish a common frame of reference which would encompass and give equal weight to the concerns and working contexts of both. To assist in this aim, both researchers agreed that neither the field of archives or of literary scholarship would be privileged. The focus in this study is on the relationship between the author and the editor within the academic publishing sector. With these parameters set as the starting point, research questions were drawn up from both perspectives to guide the project. These questions were, to some extent, addressed, but a more important outcome of the process was the development of a common frame of reference in which to continue the dialogue, through a broader and more abstract idea of the scholarly record and not just one of records as material resources for literary scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides a list of business records that can be found in the Lancashire Record Office in Preston, England.

Focuses on material collected in the Record Office at the Liverpool Public Library and its bearing on local business history in England. Sparseness of industry in the collection, since the nineteenth century was marked by commercial growth rather than industrial development; Way that personal papers often illuminate some aspects of business.

Introduction. This study is part the project "Nursing in Borderland - Finnmark 1939-1950" within nursing history that sheds light on nursing and health care during World War II in Finnmark County, Northern Norway. The study focuses on challenges in nursing care that arose during the war because of war activities in the Barents area. This article focuses on challenges caused by shortage of supplies. The aim of the project is to widen the understanding of development within health care and living conditions in the area. Study design. This is a historical study using narratives, government documents and literature. Methods. Interviews with nurses and persons active in health care during World War II constitute the main data of the research. Thematic issues that arise from interviews are analysed. Primary and secondary written sources are used in analysing the topics. Because of war activities, deportation and burning of the county, archives were partly destroyed. Central archives can contribute with annual reports, whereas local archives are fragmentary. There are a number of reports written soon after the War, as well as a number of biographical books of newer date. Results. Challenges caused by war, which appear in the interviews, are: 1) shortage of supplies, 2) increased workload, 3) multicultural society, 4) ethical dilemmas, 5) deportation of the population. In this paper, focus is on challenges caused by shortage of supplies. Conclusions. Both institutions, personnel and patients were marked by the war. This has to be taken in consideration in health care today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Australia's archival repository for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage, is the nation's peak body for collecting, recording, archiving and returning Indigenous-related knowledge and information. Since 1964 AIATSIS has amassed the world's largest collection of print, audio and film materials on Australian First Nations peoples. This paper canvasses the Deadline 2025 campaign for audiovisual collections at risk and the complexities of preserving audiovisual archives. It argues that while the Plan's institutional focus is essential, equally essential is institutional leadership in establishing integration with community-held archives, supported by appropriately resourced and skilled community-based partnerships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on questions of Macedonian standardization at the most micro-level, i.e., within the individual. Through examination of archival materials of Macedonian writers of the early twentieth century, questions of language shift and standardization are addressed. While much research has been conducted on the state processes of language standardizing, on access to the media in newly standardized linguistic codes, and on access to education, this work refocuses discussion of language standards on individual speakers and writers: how and why they shift their language to the emerging norm. Two writers from this period, Anton Kavaev and Radoslav Petkovski, serve as models and provide the first step in a larger study of processes of standardization in the early decades of the twentieth century leading to codification in mid-century. The written works of the authors under study demonstrate that language codification is not an act, nor a series of acts, but a process, a process that takes place within individual speakers who are committed to the project of language standardization while subject to external political and linguistic pressures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was used to analyse off-gassing from three archival boxes that had an acidic smell. A number of volatile organic compounds were found, including acetic (ethanoic) acid, likely to be generated by Jade 403, a poly(vinyl acetate/ethylene) adhesive that had been used in the boxes. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of acetic acid vapour on pure cellulose paper using cold extraction pH and viscometric determination of the average degree of polymerization (D̅P̅v) of cellulose dissolved in cadoxen. Whatman No. 1 paper samples were exposed to 200, 20 and 3mgm-3 of acetic acid vapour for 40 and 80 days. The degree of degradation both immediately after exposure and following artificial aging at 80°C and 65% RH for 30 and 60 days was significant in all samples except those exposed for 80 days at 3mgm-3. The results suggest that the effect of acetic acid on paper most likely occurs over the long term after the exposure. Concerns about acid-emitting materials being in contact with or in the vicinity of paper-based materials in museums and archives are discussed, based on these results, and preventive measures are recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the place of books in archival collections and outlines the methodology used to incorporate Germaine Greer’s publications and personal library in the Greer Archive. Identification and inclusion of metadata documenting context, significance to the creator and relationships to other records in the Archive, demonstrate the value that can be added to bibliographic records. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on archival resources in business history in Great Britain. Locating the records relating to a specific company or group of firms in a particular record office can often be tedious and time consuming. Accordingly, an attempt has been made to indicate the procedure which has to be followed and any short cuts that can be taken. which they have not previously consulted. For the individual who has not yet penetrated deeply into the business history jungle it will point out the most valuable trees in the forest which bear the best fruit for the effort expended. In brief, if one wish to do business history research but do not know where to go this is a "good repository guide," and what to look out for when historians are there. The public record office is perhaps the single most important repository for sources for business history. This may seem odd, at first, because the PRO houses the records created by central government and its civil service departments and, until very recently, business was largely left to individual entrepreneurs.

Why do volunteers choose to contribute thousands of unpaid hours per week to Australian archives? This paper presents the results of a nationwide web survey that provides insight into the demographics, motivations and experiences of volunteers in Australian archives. The findings provide a representative overview of formal volunteers in Australian archives, determining ‘who’ they are, the value of the contributions they provide and the level of training and support offered to them. This study is a continuation of existing discussions about volunteers in Australian archives and represents an opportunity for the development of stronger relationships with Australian archival volunteers and, through them, the communities our archives serve. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This study examines video games' depictions of archival architectures in levels and practices of interacting with archival material such as looting. By doing this, the article proposes a processual idea of proper archives and virtual counterparts, both determined by various moments of interplay, such as opening treasure chests, boxes, or cells. Archived artifacts, hidden in games to be discovered, lure players to begin interplay, and are a crucial part of the labyrinthic archival ecosystem. Examining video game archives enhances the perception of archival ecosystems from the interplay with institutional archives, and the archived material in general. In video games, archives becoming media if someone recursively interacts with and within the entangled ecosystems of levels and loot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite recent developments in archival systems, standards and practice, the delivery of web-based archival services continues to present significant bamers to access by members of the community at large. One cause of this is the lack of web-based archival systems interoperability that would otherwise facilitate discovery of and access to, records by a broad constituency. Instead, monolithic archival control systems continue to position archives as jurisdictional resources that privilege a research-oriented audience. This paper describes a research project that explored the issues surrounding the development of web-based services for interoperability of archival control systems conformant with the Australian Series System. The study identified a number of significant interoperability challenges for archival systems and provided further evidence that requirements for interoperability must be 'designed in ' arid cannot be retrofitted with reliability or ease. It also identified areas in which conceptual and representational recordkeeping and archival standards could be improved. Current recordkeeping and archival standards appear to be insufficiently prescriptive to ensure interoperability, and do not model all of the required elements to facilitate discovery and access by the members of the wider community. From an organisational perspective, the study found structural barriers to progressing interoperability initiatives for community access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper serves as a report from the field in the midst of the collaborative digitisation of The Western Home Monthly (1899-1932), a Winnipeg-based middlebrow magazine. It reflects on the methodological and theoretical challenges that face periodical scholars and on how those challenges are sometimes addressed and sometimes exacerbated by digitisation. Most importantly, it explores the unique reading perspective afforded by the process of digitising an archive, and asks how this process might help to develop new methodologies for reading periodicals that are more attentive to the media-specificity of the middlebrow magazine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1986 David Bearman first put the argument that core archival methods of appraisal, description, preservation and access were fundamentally unable to cope with the volumes of records archivists were required to process. He called on the archival profession to completely reinvent its core methods. Noting similar challenges for archival methods in evolving digital business environments, this paper explores how the archival method of appraisal could be reinvented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A series of guides published by the National Archives of Australia (NAA) is considered against the background of various definitions and examples of archival guides produced in Australia during the past sixty years. The author then discusses the range of NAA guides: in particular, its so-called research guides, including the latest, published on-line and in hard copy, which surveys Commonwealth records about the Northern Territory. The article draws comparisons with the National Library's Trove system and ends with questions about the purpose of these guides, given the NAA's overall strategy for public discovery and its other information retrieval and promotional tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments that the increase in the number of manuscripts submitted to the periodical "Acta Agriculturae Scandanavica" is a sign that the journal is fulfilling a valuable function as a medium for new scientific information in applied plant and soil research. Change of the periodical to a new layout; Processing of manuscripts electronically to an increasing extent; Increased flow of papers without any time delay for the individual manuscript; Achievement of a valuable function as a medium for new scientific information.

This article presents information about the journal "Avian Pathology." Since the year 2000 there has been a sustained increase in the number of manuscripts submitted to the journal. The acceptance rate has remained static. In volume 33 of the journal, more articles were published than in any previous year, with the exception of 1996. During 2004 the Advisory Board and Editors discussed how they could maintain this policy in the face of increasing demand. One option was to increase the number of pages in the journal that would have resulted in an increase in subscription price.

The Smithsonian Institution's River Basin Surveys (RBS), hailed as "an event of transcendent importance" to American archeology, was a major part of the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program from its inception in 1945 to the end of the RBS in 1969. The RBS was a highly organized program in terms of both its field and laboratory operations, and it left an invaluable legacy of systematically-generated collections and records resulting from the extensive research of its staff. These materials continue to have research value more than 35 years after the program ended. Following the end of the RBS, some of its collections and records became dispersed and neglected. With a focus on the RBS program within the Missouri River basin, this paper discusses locations where RBS collections and records presently reside, points out advantages and problems with their management since the RBS program was terminated, and reviews National Park Service efforts to complete analysis and reporting of collections that were unanalyzed when the RBS was ended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Plains Indian drawings and historical records produced in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries made progressively greater use of nontraditional drawing materials such as commercial colored pencils, crayons, ink and watercolors. Similarly, cloth and paper begin to supplant traditional hide supports during this period. These non-traditional materials rarely have been studied in this context, yet their dates of manufacture and subsequent availability through traders and missionaries, or distribution by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has the potential to inform about the creation date of a drawing or historical record. An analysis of the materials and methods used to produce the Rosebud winter count, a Lakota pictographic calendar, is described. Results indicate that the 136 motifs on the Rosebud winter count were produced, likely in sequence, by two different hands, followed by general outlining and finally, motif numbering. The materials used in the winter count were for the most part unavailable before the nineteenth century. Colored pencil containing the pigment Prussian blue was found to form an integral part of the winter count, thus allowing the date of manufacture to be placed most likely after 1883. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]