Tag Archives: archives

Iraqi visit to ULCC

Our last Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) was attended by many people from the UK and abroad.  Thanks to the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and the British Council in Iraq among the attendees were two colleagues from the Iraq National Library and Archives in Baghdad (INLA).  The INLA was destroyed during and post [...]

Archivists around the world celebrate International Archives Day on June 9 2009!

¡La varita mágica!

Translation: the digital preservation silver bullet which people keep looking for. Well, as many of us know it doesn’t exist! This was part of my opening speech for the XV Jornadas de la Conferencia de Archiveros de las Universidades Españolas. This is the annual meeting of all Spanish university archivists. I spoke about “El perfil [...]

Dr Saad Eskander

On December 8th I was invited by Dr Saad Eskander, the Director of the National Library and Archives of Iraq, as his guest to an awards ceremony he was having at the British Library. The story behind this is that in 2006 I met him in Abu Dhabi speaking about his work and I subsequently [...]

Web 2.0 and Archives: Something like a Phenomenon?

I just spotted a posting from a fellow Antipodean, made to the Australian Archivists (aus-archivists) listserv, which has certainly raised some interesting questions surrounding web 2.0 technologies and their impact on the Archive sector…. Perhaps a debate well worth monitoring, and further exploring here, within the realm of web 2.0 itself? See Australian Archivists listserv [...]