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Meg Phillips
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Archives. Records. Open government. Doughnuts.
At ICA Forum of National Archivists virtual program on sustainability, ICCROM speaker’s slide includes Archives for Black Lives in Philly! www.ica.org/event/fan-vi...
FAN Virtual Colloquiums on Archival Matters 2024 / December - ICA
www.ica.org
December 10, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Happy World Digital Preservation Day #WDPD2024! NARA is celebrating with a new post on Fixity Check fixity-check.blogs.archives.gov
Fixity Check – Digital Preservation at the National Archives
fixity-check.blogs.archives.gov
November 7, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Reposted by Meg Phillips
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Digitisation is not a means of long-term archival preservation.
The vast bulk of archives world-wide are not digitised.
A very high percentage in any given repository are still awaiting processing and cataloguing.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

In the UK There are no minimum training standards to become a sex educator

COVID-19 was likely a "First in our lifetime" event not a Once in...

Gonorrhoea is showing exponential growth in the UK & risks becoming antibiotic resistant.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

More than 1 in 4 people are disabled, and we held the longest occupation of a government bldg in US history.

Also,you are covered by the ADA’s protections if you have depression, substance use disorder, cancer, are pregnant, and more.
October 24, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Digital Preservation at the National Archives has a new blog. It has the best name. fixity-check.blogs.archives.gov
Fixity Check – Digital Preservation at the National Archives
fixity-check.blogs.archives.gov
October 24, 2024 at 1:04 AM