... with the absence of preservation techniques and lack of clear-cut conservation practices. This study, therefore, aims to examine the preservation techniques and conservation practices adopted for the management of academic board records in polytechnics in South-West Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach...

... and the preservation challenges of VR to identify ways in which VR has the potential to disrupt existing archival theory and practice. Findings Existing archival approaches are found to be disrupted by the multi-layered structural characteristics of VR, the part–whole relationships between the technological...

... studies, ethnomethodology and organizational studies. The potential research application of practice theory is illustrated with examples from an on-going doctoral project on appraisal and preservation practices in a digital broadcasting archive. Findings The analysis of current literature shows...

...Wei Guo; Yun Fang; Weimei Pan; Dekun Li Purpose This paper aims to present a case wherein a public archive intervenes in maintaining and preserving digital records (including underlying technological infrastructure) created by a private company to protect the trustworthiness of records, thereby...

... authenticity should be captured, standardize those elements across all record types while maintaining the ability to extend additional elements for functional groups of records, and construct these authenticity supporting elements into standardized record objects for ingestion into a preservation or record...

... --> Archives Information profession Leland Preservation Records management This is an embarrassing confession to make: after ten years in the archival and records management profession, despite extensive exposure to the American Archival scene, my knowledge of Waldo Gifford Leland was scant. I knew...

... --> Records management Preservation Document management As its title suggests this book is about managing documents and Web content in an integrative way that aligns with business priorities and operations and meets record keeping requirements. In the foreword the President of AIIM International...

...Cassandra Findlay Records and archives professionals around the globe have been grappling for some time with the challenge of preserving technology‐dependent records. A variety of approaches and solutions have been developed, many of which are working effectively now. The State Records Authority...

... responsible to an independent authority rather than the Home Secretary, it is the authority, rather than the force, which will be subject to the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 for records purposes, and the resulting change in status may result in a more fragmentary preservation of historical...