16 April 2013
The Georgia Archives will find itself on more stable ground in the coming year, thanks to several key victories in the recently-closed legislative session.15 April 2013
These are applications for the unpaid wages, or pensions of deceased officers or their widows. Frequently the applications are from next of kin.
Northumberland man Hilton Dawson is leading a project to explore the history of every family in his hometown of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. He wants to preserve memories and stories which "might be lost".
From handwritten employee ledgers to black-and-white photographs, the Port of Los Angeles' past is being revived for public consumption, thanks to an archivist and a port director whose passion is history.10 April 2013
Members of the community joined The Sun, California State University, and the County of San Bernardino in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing event at the Pfau Library at CSU San Bernardino April 8, 2013.9 April 2013
"For the past few months we have been digitising part of the WO 95 record series, which consists of unit war diaries from the First World War.8 April 2013
For more than 150 years, Britain has been the go-to choice for many Irish emigrants escaping the country. Some 19,000 Irish people emigrated to the UK last year, while an estimated 6 million people in Britain are believed to be third-generation Irish.
From piles of old photos showing an evolving downtown, to a Depression-era filmstrip focused on the debate over a proposed new high school, workers at the Iowa City Public Library are finding their latest project to be as timely as it is historical.
The British Library will on Friday begin to "harvest" the internet to preserve billions of web pages, blogs and e-books which appear on the UK web domain. The library hopes to document the entire domain, and could eventually build a database holding every public Tweet or Facebook page.
A southwestern Indiana county's library is electronically preserving some of the state's earliest records and putting the most historically significant documents online.4 April 2013
The Culture minister, Rosa Cruz e Silva, last Tuesday in Luanda manifested her disappointment at the fact that a very low number of people visit regularly the National Archive for research activities.3 April 2013
From hepcat to slacks, from right on to whassup, words and phrases have helped novelists and filmmakers evoke a particular time or place.
Tuesday was the first day the Michigan Tech archives have been fully reopened to Tech staff, students, and the community after a fire caused extensive damage to the archives.
The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge.2 April 2013
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