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N.B. This is an unsolicited recommendation to public or private sector managers, currently planning or implementing digital archives and records management or heritage programs, who are in the market for excellently trained digital curation specialists or digital archivists. I recommend that organizations with internships or short/long-term vacancies give serious consideration to the outstanding crop of fellows in and coming out of the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Educating Stewards of Public Information Infrastructure (ESOPI2)) dual graduate degree program. See the current lineup of ESOPI2 participants for bios and further information. I've been serving on the project Advisory Board for its first phase and currently second phase through 2014, which has given me the opportunity of meeting with and listening to several of these participants. They are undertaking research and internships in such areas as cloud computing, geophysical, texting and instant messaging systems and recordkeeping implications. (E.g., see report by Nicholas Ring in Recent Content below.) For information on participant availability, contact Professor Helen Tibbo or Cal Lee, Asst. Professor and program PI and Co-PI respectively. RB
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Gregory Sanford,
former Vermont State Archivist, final essay in "Voice from the Vault
series: "In Search
of Bunny Piper" Nicholas
Ring, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), participant in
Educating Stewards of Public Information Infrastructure (ESOPI2)
dual graduate degree fellowship program.
"Best
Practices for Electronic Communications Usage in North Carolina: Text and
Instant Message," March, 2012, published here with the kind permission
of the author and
Principal Investigators of the ESOPI2 program. This
report was written as part of a consulting study of text messages as
records for the North Carolina Department of Cultural
Resources. See
the Guest Authors page for more information. I,
Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era, Society of American
Archivists (SAA), Chicago,
August
2011, pp. 379,
Christopher A. (Cal) Lee, Associate Professor at the School of
Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, Ed.
This tightly-knit set of chapter
offerings by an outstanding line-up of 10 authors: Adrian
Cunningham, Cathy Marshall, Sue McKemmish,
Kristina Spurgin, Tom Hyry and Rachel Onuf, Leslie Johnston, Susan Thomas, Christopher
A. (Cal)
Lee and Robert Capra. For book purchasing link or to view the Table of Contents,
Editor's Introduction, Author Bios, and Index, go to
the Guest Authors section under Lee. Archivist of the US (AOTUS) blog. This
is not a guest author offering, but rather a notice to colleagues of the
availability of this excellent resourse. Bruce
Bruemmer's paper "Brown Shoes in a World of Tuxedos: Corporate Archives and
the Archival Profession," in the Guest Authors section has been
translated into Japanese at the request of the Records Management Society of
Japan, translation courtesy of Takashi
Asahi. It
has been added to the Guest Authors section. "Preserving
Digital Memory at the National Archives and Records Administration of the
U.S.," by Kenneth
Thibodeau, presentation at the "Workshop on Conservation of
Digital Memories Second National Conference," Bologna, Italy, 20
November 2009. This is an unpublished paper that is published here with
the kind permission of the author. The author plans to publish in a longer
version of the paper at a later date. At time of this publication, it
reflected the latest published update on the status of the ($350,000,000+
to-date) ERA system.
(Please see Guest Authors Section under Ken Thibodeau's papers.) Podcast:
"Government 2.0 Taskforce with Adrian Cunningham & John
McDonald" (41 mins). Download provided
by Julie McLeod (Professor in Records Management at Northumbria University
(Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K).& Project Director AC+erm research project www.northumbria.ac.uk/acerm as
part of a monthly podcast series on the records management issues
affecting organisations and professionals today, from Northumbria
University's School of Computing, Engineering & Information Sciences. http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/.
(Please see Guest Authors Section under Cunningham or McDonald for
more
details.) "Service-oriented
architecture and recordkeeping,"
by Barbara Reed, "Records and Representations,"
by Geoffrey Yeo,
Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at University College London. This
paper was given at the Conference on the Philosophy of the Archive in
Edinburgh in April 2008.
Understanding
Data and Information Systems for Recordkeeping, by Philip
C. Bantin, University Archivist, Indiana University, Neal-Schuman
Publishers, 2007. Well known for his leadership in the field of electronic
records, including his leadership of the Indiana University Electronic
Records Project, Bantin explores content management systems, data
warehouses, relational databases — the ways an institution can organize
and store its information that are changing rapidly. He provides a
comprehensive guide to the new technologies that can help us better
organize vital documents and information for preservation, search, and
retrieval.
Selected
Content
by Rick Barry "Keeping
Records in Changing Organizations," chapter in Controlling
the Past: Documenting Society and Institutions – Essays in Honor of
Helen Willa Samuels edited by T. Cook,
Society of American Archivists, January 2011.
NHPRC:
Testimony to the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General
Government," June 14, 2011. Email testimony in support of the
reinstatement of National Historical Publication and Research Commission's
budget, at least to the previously authorized level of $10 million.
"Giving
it away…about giving it away", a checklist reflecting an
experience in donating a family letter to the National
World War II Museum, published in the Society
of Archivists Business Archives Section Newsletter, February 2011.
"Attack on Pearl Harbor: A Brother's Story",
July, 26, 2011. This article is a revised and updated excerpt from my "Barry
Family Journal", a draft work in progress based on family scrap
books and letters, and research at the National Archives and Records
Administration. The story of my brother's day at Pearl Harbor during and
following the Japanese attack is included in The
Other Pearl Harbor: The Army Air Corps & Its Heroes on Dec. 7, 1941
by John Martin Meek, Dec 6, 2011.
"Collaboration technologies: it takes more
than technology," a
PowerPoint presentation given at the February 27, 2009, Northern Virginia
ARMA Chapter seminar on the currently hot topic: "Collaborative
Techniques and Strategies for Records and Information Management"
(See Engagements section for program
details.)
A
review of "Exploring
the Essence of Records Management, Engaging with Experts:
Proceedings", edited by Susan
Childs, Susan Heaford and Julie
McLeod, 2006.
The conference adopted a novel and effective "witnessing"
approach to its structure. This
paper is a pre-publication version of a paper that was published in the Records
Management Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2006;
Emerald Group Publishing Limited,
Bradford, UK, pp. 124-136, and is published here with the kind permission
of the publisher.
"Managing Electronic
Records", review of the book by the same title, edited
by Julie McLeod and Catherine Hare in the context of a literature review
of the topic: managing electronic records.
This paper is a pre-publication version of a paper that was published in
the Records
Management Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2006;
Emerald Group Publishing
Limited, Bradford, UK, pp. 57-66, and is published here with the kind
permission of the publisher.
"Ya Got Trouble (Right Here in River City)"
This is probably the
only discussion on this site that is not about information and records
management, because it is about my home; but that is also in so many ways a
precious family archive. It is about my own and my wife's thinking processes
as we thought seriously about the home aspects of retirement. Are you thinking
about retiring in the next few years? Baby boomer? Last kid in college?
Otherwise ready to downsize your life style without giving up on quality of
living—in fact improving on that? Read media stories about Rick Barry's and
wife Linda Cox's recently built "retirement home", an alternative to
a 50+ year-old only retirement community. "A
Turning Tide, One Couple’s Practical Dream Home Is Ahead of Its Time"
by Christy Pagans in the Spring 2006
issue of Washington SPACES magazine,
Trish Donnelley, Editor.
The home was previously reviewed by architect and syndicated columnist,
Katherine Salant in, "A
House for All Seasons," September 13, 2002.
This is a new 1-level home designed by Rick and his wife with assistance from
an architect using multi-generational (Universal Design) architectural design
features, though we weren't aware of that until we were about half way through
the project.
OTHER RECENT CONTENT Check out Archivist of the US (AOTUS)
Blog Site. Very good use of Web2 technology for lite but interesting and
often provocative ideas
and innovations. Reader feedback invited.
Selected Government Accountability Office Reports re:
National Archives and Records Administration (For
a full listing of reports go to GAO
Reports and Testimonies)
IN MEMORIAM: Francis
X. McGovern: Rembrancer, Recordkeeping Advocate and Practitioner, and Friend —
Extraordinaire.
See: Frank
McGovern: Reflections, by many friends and colleagues, provided by his great friend and
then-IBM colleague, Bill Neale.
On
a Personal Note...
On
Personal Electronic Recordkeeping. Barry, R, E, "Barry
Family Journal", a personal and ongoing exercise in personal electronic
records. This very drafty journal is placed in a larger context of my ancestry,
though still very sketchily right now. Largely because of a combination of a
quite complete scrap book kept by my mother, Mary Witherell Barry, and the
excellent research facilities and resourced found at the National Archives and
Records Administration (and its outstanding naval archivist staff) in
Washington, D.C. and College Park, MD, it thus far focuses mainly on the World
War II period as witnessed by my oldest, now deceased, brother, Charles B. Barry
(Ensign through Commander). It cover his role and experiences beginning with
December 7, 1941 when as a young naval gunnery officer on liberty at the Moana
Hotel on Waikiki beach, Oahu, then Territory of Hawaii when the attack on Pearl
Harbor took place and the days thereafter. Also included as an appendix is a
virtual copy of an extraordinary and revealing, hand-written letter home that he
wrote one month to the day before the historic attack. It demonstrates that a
young Ensign seems to have had a greater awareness of the coming storm than some
far higher superiors in the chain of command in headquarters centers at Pearl
Harbor. The original of this letter has been gifted to The
National World War II Museum,
945 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70130,
where it is now accessible to all researchers and the public more generally. See
SAA Business Archives Newsletter article, "Giving
it away…about giving it away," by Rick Barry, on the author's
experience in searching out and arranging to gift my brother's original November
7, 1941 letter to The
National World War II Museum.
For a brief article
on the author's
experience in searching out and selecting an appropriate institution and arranging
for a deed of gift of my brother's original November
7, 1941 letter, see
SAA Business Archives Newsletter article, "Giving
it away…about giving it away," by Rick Barry.For
more on this and other references on personal electronic recordkeeping, click here.
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