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Neglected to Indispensable: Lessons from Beyond Access for Global Public Library Reform and Development
Public Library Quarterly, volume 41, issue 3 (2022), pp. 273-293
"Beyond Access was the first major global attempt to connect the international development and public library worlds. Taking the form of a series of projects in a dozen countries meant to help catalyze library development around national goals, the program operated from 2011 to 2018. Starting from a
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Archival Silences
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xiv, 257 pp.
"Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions
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Living Archives: An Introductory Toolkit for Civil Society Organizations in the Creation of Human Rights Oral Archives and Organizing Their Documentation
Key Guides
Global Initiative for Justice Truth & Reconciliation (GIJTR) (2021), 151 pp.
"This document was developed as an instrument to support civil society organizations (CSOs) in Colombia in the development of oral archives and in the organization of their archival collections. It draws from the experience of GIJTR partners International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) and
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Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence: Working with Born-Digital and Digitised Archival Collections
Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press; transcript Verlag (2021), 330 pp.
"Cultural heritage organizations face at least three main challenges. First, the volume of digital archives makes it extremely difficult for archivists to assess records. Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to archives is still at an experimental stage, but AI/ ML could b
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Guía orientadora para la gestión de colecciones bibliográficas en bibliotecas escolares
Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2021), 143 pp.
"La presente Guía orientadora para la gestión de colecciones en bibliotecas escolares está dirigida a bibliotecarios escolares, docentes, rectores de las instituciones educativas y líderes de calidad de las Entidades Territoriales Certificadas en Educación (ETC). En ella se brindan herramientas
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Archives and Human Rights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxi, 330 pp.
"Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the
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Qualität in der Inhaltserschließung
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2021), vi, 420 pp.
"Der 70. Band der BIPRA-Reihe beschäftigt sich mit der Qualität in der Inhaltserschließung im Kontext etablierter Verfahren und technologischer Innovationen. Treffen heterogene Erzeugnisse unterschiedlicher Methoden und Systeme aufeinander, müssen minimale Anforderungen an die Qualität der Inha
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Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2021), viii, 239 pp.
"Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives
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"Beyond Access was the first major global attempt to connect the international development and public library worlds. Taking the form of a series of projects in a dozen countries meant to help catalyze library development around national goals, the program operated from 2011 to 2018. Starting from a
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The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 134 pp.
"As the revolutions across the Arab world that came to a head in 2011 devolved into civil war and military coup, representation and history acquired a renewed and contested urgency. The capacities of the internet have enabled sharing and archiving in an unprecedented fashion. Yet, at the same time,
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The Augmented Archive: History in Real Time. An Archaeology of Images of the Egyptian Revolution
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 5092-5107
"This study explores the challenges of archiving the Egyptian revolution from 2011, and basically any archive consisting of digital media, specifically in contexts of ongoing political contestation. The text proposes a media-archaeological approach in both theory and practice: The media artist Kaya
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Community Archives, Community Spaces: Heritage, Memory and Identity
London: Facet (2020), xxiv, 190 pp.
"This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres. It also explores new definitions of what community archives might encompass, particu
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Qu'est-ce qu'une archive du Web?
Marseille: Open Edition Press (2019), 106 pp.
"Cet ouvrage se propose d’initier le lecteur aux enjeux humains et techniques de l’archivage de la Toile, de la collecte à l’analyse en passant par la création et le partage de corpus ou encore le cadre législatif. Il étudie de manière pragmatique cet archivage, en essayant de rendre palp
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Books Beyond Bars: The Transformative Potential of Prison Libraries
Hamburg: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (2019), 50 pp.
"This publication demonstrates that prison libraries have many different advantages. The most obvious ones are connected to educational benefits, such as providing access to educational reading materials and information, including legal information, supporting formal education and achieving educatio
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Checklist for the Development of Portals for International Development
Knowledge Management for Development Journal, volume 14, issue 1 (2019), pp. 83-94
"This guideline has been developed by the authors in a collaborative manner over the period May 2018-May 2019 in consultation with the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community. It is designed to provide guidance for development organizations who are setting up portals –also known as
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Usages et services d'Internet au Mali: Rôle et positionnement des bibliothèques
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 268 pp.
Implementing Low Cost Digital Libraries for Rural Communities by Re-functioning Obsolescent Television Sets: The Offline-pedia Project
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, volume 8, issue 15 (2019), pp. 123-139
"The article addresses the issue of the digital divide in Ecuador and illustrates how artefacts from television material heritage might be transformed into digital libraries to provide marginalized communities with access to digital information. It describes an ongoing socio-technical project which
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International and Comparative Librarianship: Concepts and Methods for Global Studies
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2019), xliv, 905 pp.
"Based on his extensive experience in international librarianship, Peter Johan Lor, South Africa's first National Librarian and a former Secretary General of the IFLA, has written the first comprehensive and systematic overview of international and comparative librarianship. His book provides a conc
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