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28 January 2013

National Archives of Armenia Turns Digital

New concept of reforms elaborated in National Archives of Armenia further on will enable a chance to obtain archival documents in electronic way. The mechanism will be operated started 2013.

Amatuni Virabyan, director of National Archives of Armenia informed Armenpress. ''The reforms seek to create an archive to meet the demands of today society. It should be available and affordable.

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UK Archives Unlocks 150 Year-Old Images of Adelaide for Australia Day

A stunning collection of thousands of images of Australia cataloguing the growth of the colonies has been found after more than 150 years locked away in archives in London.

The collection was gathered by the then British Colonial Office on the orders of the second Earl of Granville, to report back to London on the progress of the colonies in Australia.

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24 January 2013

The National Archives of the UK: Online Map Descriptions Unlock Local History

Detailed descriptions for nearly 12,000 tithe maps of England and Wales from the 1840s are now available online, offering a greater insight into local history.

Tithe maps can reveal a wealth of information about people, places and landmarks in Victorian times, including where famous individuals such as William Wordsworth lived. Village smithies, old turnpike roads, druidic altars and menageries are shown on the maps, as well as cotton mills and the first railways.

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Deal Budget Gives Georgia Archives $4.3M

The Georgia Archives would get more than $4.3 million next year in the governor’s proposed budget. But questions remain about whether that would mean more access for the public.

The archives’ budget ended up at roughly $4.3 million this year after the secretary of state cut more than $600,000 this fall and laid off five employees, half the archives’ staff. The governor’s budget would restore the archives to a full staff of 10 employees.

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21 January 2013

Online "Irish History Day" Launched With 21 Million Birth, Marriage And Death Records Released

Family historians will be able to access 21 million birth, marriage, and death records free of charge, on Thursday 24th of January. Findmypast.ie based in Dublin, at the heart of Irish family history are hosting the inaugural “Irish History Family Day," to celebrate the launch of the records online.

The family history website will publish records covering the island of Ireland from the 1800’s right up to the 1950’s. Findmypast.ie carries the most detailed and throrough collection of records ever seen in one place.

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Uruguay Opens Historic Diplomatic Archives To Malvinas War Veterans

Uruguay will open on Monday 21 January its diplomacy archives to that Malvinas war veterans can consult classified information referred to the South Atlantic conflict when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in April 1982.

The decision to declassify documents with access to the Malvinas veterans was agreed following a request from the Argentine embassy in Montevideo on petition from Cesar Gonzalez Trejo who was president of the Malvinas Veterans Federation.

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17 January 2013

Archives Exhibits To Show Off 150 Years of Alumni Memories at Illinois State University

The Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives will display 150 years of Redbird memories throughout 2013 to help mark Illinois State University’s Alumni Association sesquicentennial.

The exhibit, Celebrating 150 Years of Alumni Memories: The Illinois State University Alumni Association’s Sesquicentennial, will be displayed during Founders Day festivities on February 21 in Bone Student Center, between the Circus Room and the Ballroom, part of the STATE Showcase.

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15 January 2013

The Angus Library and Archive in Oxford, England, Secures Heritage Lottery Funding

Oxford’s Regent’s Park College has received £488k from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and The Baptist Union Newington Court Fund (BUGB) to provide opportunities for people to learn about the important part Baptists played in the history of the United Kingdom and the world.

The project will also safeguard this unique and important part of nation’s heritage.

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Digitalisation of Books in Manipur State Archives, India

The digitization of books and other historical records of the Manipur State Archives has begun and the same will be made available to the public on the website of the archives.

Centre for Development of Advance Computing, Kolkata (CDAC) started digitization of books and other records at the Manipur State Archives on September 28, 2011 and around 300 books will be covered by the digitization process, an official of Manipur State Archives said on Monday.

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Minnesota To Digitize Old Adoption Records

Minnesota plans to make it easier for people researching their family histories to access old adoption information by digitizing roughly 5 million pages worth of records, including some that date to the late 19th century.

The records are stored on about 2,000 rolls of microfilm at the Department of Human Services. The agency put the job of digitizing the records out for bid last month, saying it shouldn’t cost more than $67,500.

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14 January 2013

Afghan Treasures Receive Virtual Repatriation

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington joins Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the January 10 presentation to President Karzai of a framed copy of a rare Afghan manuscript from LC’s collection.

The ceremony also marked the announcement that LC was providing the Afghan people, through the World Digital Library, with a digital copy of the entire body of Afghanistan-related works held by the library.

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Washington State archives Building Doubles As Bomb Shelter

In the early 1960s, Washington opened an archives building to safely store the state's most important documents. The building, constructed as a largely underground bunker and opened just a year after the Cuban missile crisis, served another purpose not widely publicized at the time: nuclear fallout shelter in case of attack.

Today, a series of tunnels built to evacuate state officials and staff to the safety of the bunker go largely unused or serve as utility tunnels for steam and electrical lines. But in that era of heightened fear, "the mood was hysteria," said Jerry Handfield, state archivist since 2001.

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Israel's State Archives Close Again, This Time Due To Collapsed Staircase

The State Archives have closed for the third time in recent months. This time, the closure is due to the collapse of a staircase in the entrance of the archives building. Haaretz has learned that a booked guided tour due to take place later this week has been canceled as a result.

On Sunday morning the archives said: "The staircase in the entrance of the building collapsed, probably due to construction work in an area adjacent to the archives."

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9 January 2013

Letters From Scotland's Victorian Asylums Go On Display

Documents which give a fascinating insight into life inside Scotland's Victorian lunatic asylums will be revealed to the public. Archives from Craig Dunain Hospital, in Inverness, will be available to the public in the Highland Archive Centre.

Hundreds of letters from patients at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital have been analysed as part of its bicentenary celebrations. BBC Scotland's health correspondent Eleanor Bradford reports.

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7 January 2013

Georgia Archives’ Supporters Remain ‘Nervous’

With its near collapse averted in October, the Georgia Archives still faces a perilous transition next year with likely new bosses but the same old budget crunch.

That outlook comes as the state Legislature must still approve a proposal by Gov. Nathan Deal to cut the archives’ ties to the Secretary of State’s Office and allow the University System of Georgia to take over its management.

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