For those who appreciate such things, this brief account of the life of the index card by Jonathan Schifman is worth a quick look. Schifman reminds us that not too long ago ‘if you wanted to find the best and most comprehensive information about anything, you headed to a library. You just had to check two things […]
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News article: New Email Archive Tool to Sift Literary Legacies
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An article in The Wall Street Journal reports on a new free software called ePADD that has been developed to assist archivists in managing writers’ emails. Extract from the WSJ: Email archives pose many of the same challenges as paper ones, such as privacy concerns, copyright questions and decisions about organizing an unwieldy cache of material with a […]
Redundant Catalogue Cards
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Part of a current exhibition on ‘knowledge in motion’ in the Octagon Gallery at the Main Library, University College London. COLLECTING- KNOWLEDGE IN MOTION An exhibition curated by Claire Dwyer (Geography), Margot Finn (History), Stefanie Van Gemert (Dutch), Kate Smith (History) and Ulrich Tiedau (Dutch). Collections, like Universities, are factories of knowledge. Institutionally, they often […]
Programme announced for Cataloguing Creativity at the British Library
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Programme announced for Cataloguing Creativity at the British Library Cataloguing Creativity: symposium on cataloguing literary archives and manuscripts to be held on 15 November 2013 at the British Library.
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