https://stierch.tumblr.com/post/7627877136/archivists

Wikipedia Needs Archivists.

Why?

They write amazing finding aids. Finding aids that give you the basic details about complex collections that often span decades. They are neutral, to the point, and provide an amazing starting point to write articles. These are found in archives around the world, online.
They want to see collections digitized. This allows the public more access to primary documents for transcription, rarely seen photographs, and better awareness and notability about collections. This means more media and more content for Wikipedians to use.
They want to work with you. The archivists want to share what they know, and show you how to find it - whether they do it online or in person.
They want you to be a better researcher. Many of the archivists I have been working with desire to see better documentation available for Wikipedians on how to be better researchers; i.e. How to use the collections, finding aids, and the people at their fingertips. We’re going to make that happen, with a how-to guide for Wikipedians that will encourage us all to become better researchers.
They want the world to know what they are preserving and how to use it so it benefits your work to the utmost.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-07-04/In_the_news

A French court decision issued on July 1st (as reported on lefigaro.fr) awarded the company Rentabiliweb €25,000 (US$36,000) in damage and interest from its competitor Hi-Media, on the basis of a single Wikipedia edit that had removed mention of Rentabiliweb (and a link to their website) from a list of vendors in the French Wikipedia's article on micropayment. The IP used for the anonymous edit, conducted in 2008, was held to be that "of a device belonging to Hi-Media". The Paris court rejected Hi-Media's objection that this method of determining the author of the edit was illegal (as an intrusion of privacy), since an IP address did not directly provide the person who used the computer, but on the other hand held that because the computer had been installed on Hi-Media's premises, "Rentabiliweb offered sufficient proof that it was a person acting under the authorization of Hi-Media which was the author of the deletion". Rentabiliweb initially claimed €150,000 in damages, but the court reduced the sum to €25,000, as there had been no detailed justification, and also because "Wikipedia does not appear to the site where an Internet user will habitually search for suppliers of services". (Because Rentabiliweb itself was found guilty of two other actions - unrelated to Wikipedia - for which Hi-Media was awarded €50,000 in damages each, the entire case still resulted in Rentabiliweb having to compensate Hi-Media for a sum of €75,000.)

See also
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B0Umg35sWCPhNjdlOWUzZjItOWUxYi00ZDgzLTk4OWQtMjdjMDY2N2UyNjhj&hl=en_US&pli=1

Most OA journals (78%) don't offer libre OA. That is, they publish under all-rights-reserved copyrights and don't allow uses beyond fair use.

When I checked last week (June 24, 2011), 1,448 out of 6,647 journals in the DOAJ, or 21.8%, used some kind of CC license.
https://www.doaj.org/?func=licensedJournals
As of the same date, 747 or 11.2% had the SPARC Europe Seal of Approval, which requires CC-BY.
https://www.doaj.org/?func=sealedJournals

OA repositories are rarely in a position to obtain the permissions needed for libre OA. Hence, we can't criticize or complain when most of their deposits are gratis, not libre. But OA journals can easily obtain the permissions needed for libre OA. When they don't offer libre OA, they have no excuse. This is one of the largest missed opportunities of the OA movement to date.
https://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-09.htm#2

Today most libre OA is gold OA. But unfortunately it's not yet the case that most gold OA is libre OA, and unfortunately it's not even close.

https://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/07-02-11.htm

Journal of Visual Literacy, Open Access
https://www.ohio.edu/visualliteracy/

e.g.:
Barromi Perlman, E. (2011). The Role of an Archivist in Shaping
Collective Memory on Kibbutz. Through her Work on the Photographic,
30(1), 1-18.
An archivist from a kibbutz in the north of Israel has been managing
the kibbutz archive for close to a decade. I have chosen to present
her enterprise and the role she is playing by means of her archival
work, which is changing the historiography of her kibbutz1. The
archivist at the kibbutz in question reevaluates her kibbutz´s
history while incorporating values of egalitarianism and feminism
into the archive.
Keywords: archive, kibbutz, photographs, feminism

Via Ingrid Strauch

The International Council on Archives' Section on Archives of the University and Research Institutions invites archivists, registrars and student records specialists to participate in the on- line survey on the management and appraisal of student records. The results of the survey will be used in elaborating guidelines for the appraisal and disposition of student records.

Link to the survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9NPSWB8

Via Archivliste

https://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

E-LIS is the subject repository for library and information science.

"Archival Outlook (ISSN 1520-3379) is published six times a year and distributed as a membership benefit by the Society of American Archivists. It currently has a circulation of more than 6,000.

The newsletter updates members on important business of the Society and on the work of its many component groups. It reports on regional, national, and international news of relevance to the North American archival profession. Articles focus on best practice and how-to pieces on timely and relevant topics, how archives are used by the public, and archivists on the job. Departments include "Advocating for Archives" (which reports on advocacy on the national and local level), "Someone You Should Know" (profiles of members using a Q&A format), and "Photo-Op" (emphasizing visual materials).

Archival Outlook is published bimonthly: January/February, March/April, May/June, July/August, September/October, and November/December. Deadlines for editorial content are the fifth of the month preceding publication (i.e., the deadline for the January/February issue is Dec. 5)."
Link: https://www2.archivists.org/archival-outlook

Back issues as PDF until Juli/August 2004

" .... America's premier enology school scored a monumental donation from the family of America's most famous vintner this week. The children of Robert Mondavi—Michael Mondavi, who now runs his own eponymous estate, and Marcia Mondavi Borger and Tim Mondavi of Continuum Estate—have donated more than 40 boxes of materials belonging to their late father to the University of California at Davis. The papers and photos include Robert Mondavi's correspondences with wine industry leaders and former California Gov. Gray Davis, hand-written speeches (one of them for Julia Child's 90th birthday party) and photographs of Mondavi and his family dating back to his college days at Stanford in the 1930s. Experts in the special collections department of the UC Davis library will now spend the next year cataloging and organizing all of the documents in preparation for a public exhibit next year, and the archived collection will be available for research by both students and the public thereafter. "This collection is a terrific addition to our library," professor emeritus and acting librarian Randy Siverson told Wine Spectator. "We already have one of the world's most comprehensive collections in viticulture and enology and this gift will add further luster to it." ...."
Link: https://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/45216