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Hit by Flooding? Here Are 3 Things You Can Do Now
by Marcia Spicer Plus: two ways you can prepare for the future to conclude National

Preventing the Worst-Case Scenario
by Marcia Spicer Ask any archivist, collector, or researcher who works with historical materials what

Everyone Who Has Gone Before Me: An Interview
by Andrea Glazer For those in my generation, much of our lives have been lived

Incoming!
by Marcia Spicer Every few months the question of location comes up when talking with

ARMA St. Louis Honors Anderson Archival and Anderson Technologies
by Marcia Spicer Last month, we celebrated the conclusion of the 2021-2022 season of ARMA

Three Tips for Keeping Zines Pristine
by Andrea Glazer It’s hard to imagine modern life without our digital communities. Before the

Unrecoverable: The National Personnel Records Center Fire
by Marcia Spicer Within the archival community, some disasters are legendary—infamous not only in their

Five Crucial Mistakes Archives Make with OCR
by Marcia Spicer One thing almost every digitization client has in common is a desire

Practical Tips for Document Longevity
by Marcia Spicer Are you a proud owner of historical material written by or to

Don’t Lose Your History
Recorded history is an irreplaceable treasure, but physical historical records are constantly under threat. Books,

Backgammon and Bronze Age Toilets: Preserving the Mundane
by Shana Scott Gas station receipts, junk mail catalogs, and notepad doodles aren’t exactly what

Learn: Digital Preservation vs. Digitization
It may feel like the terms “digital preservation” and “digitization” are interchangeable, but it’s better