The #WhiteHouse Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It

As the #Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of #history , #archivists and #historians said.
#takedown #Musk

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html

A little late from last month's theme of #justice, here's a new blog: "Grace McIntosh: The Life of a Victorian Criminal"

https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/grace-mcintosh-the-life-of-a-victorian-criminal/

Phil from Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives takes us on a journey to trace the story of GraceMcIntosh.

#aberdeen #scotland #archives #archivists @histodons @archivistodon #victorian

Read our new blog post all about the Jane Cameron National Archives of the Falkland Islands and their experience participating in Explore Your Archives focus week for the first time in 2024 https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/the-first-explore-your-archive-week-with-jane-cameron-national-archives-falkland-islands/

I'm trying to find things to read for a funding application (blog posts, articles, whatever) about archive services as spaces of power, but specifically institutional / national archives (so not stories of how community archives resist power, but how somewhere like the National Archives or a university archive thinks critically about itself as a place of power and then does something practical about it)

any suggestions gratefully received

#archives #archivists @archivistodon @histodons

Massively Overpowered: The RuneScape Archive Project is paying a $500 bounty to folks who can dig up old versions of OSRS. “The RuneScape Archive Project is hoping to collect older versions than the already old [Old School RuneScape] that’s available now. Regular fans may know the game started from an August 2007 build of the MMORPG, but the operators of the archive are trying to gather […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/18/massively-overpowered-the-runescape-archive-project-is-paying-a-500-bounty-to-folks-who-can-dig-up-old-versions-of-osrs/

New blog post from us: "Doncaster Grammar School Archive comes to the City of Doncaster Archives"

This article offers an introspective view on the life and times of a grammar school which has existed since 1350, as told through its archive collection.

https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/doncaster-grammar-school-archive/

#Doncaster #school #archives #archivists #history @histodons

[Canada] Halifax woman who photographed 2SLGBTQIA+/women's rights movements has work archived
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-woman-who-photographed-2slgbtq-women-s-rights-movements-has-work-archived-1.7469416

Spanning 40 yrs, Anita Martinez's photos "brings the past forward" -- archivist

I'm a Vol. Board Member (as is Dan MacKay - ft. in article) of 2SLGBTQIA+ seniors advocacy group
Senior Pride Network Canada/Réseau de la Fierté des personnes aînées du Canada

SPNC/RFAC: https://spnc-rfac.ca

Justice in the archives. Any takers?

#EYAJustice

(we're "Explore Your Archive", a campaign to share stories from archives on monthly themes) https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/ )

#archives #archivists #justice #history #histodons #GLAM #galleries #libraries #museums @histodons @archivistodon @academicchatter

#Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump #CDC Website, Are Hosting It in #Europe

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald #Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe.
#restoredcdc #disease #pretrump #donaldtrump

https://www.404media.co/archivists-recreate-pre-trump-cdc-website-are-hosting-it-in-europe/

Fellow #archivists please help me remember which SAA Council members have blogged about their experiences on Council while serving. Erin Lawrimore and Kate Theimer are the first ones that come to mind, but I would appreciate having my memory jogged for others!

Here are this year's themes. We'd love to see your archive stories each month so we can share them here. And if you have a longer story to tell, consider getting in touch to write a blog post:

https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/create/

Any love left for February?/

January = #EYADustbusters
February = #EYALove
March = #EYAJustice
April = #EYAEarth
May = #EYAFunAndGames
June = #EYATravel
July = #EYANature
August = #EYAHumour
September =#EYAEducation
October = #EYAMonsters
November = #EYAReligion
#EYASpirituality
December = EYASparkle

@archivistodon #archives #archivists #history @histodons a.gup.pe

#845 Andrew Cook (ed) - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XIII, No 60, Autumn 1978. The British Records Association, London. #Archives #Archivists #BritishRecordsAssociation #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay

Register now for the New England #Archivists Spring meeting in Springfield, MA! https://newenglandarchivists.org/event-5959205

++ register for my pre-conference workshop, #Facilitation and Project Management for All. https://newenglandarchivists.org/event-6027737

Learn how to get groups to achieve their outcomes, while reducing harm to individuals (such as #burnout and #microaggressions) along the way. My experience is from facilitating communities of practice (SPN, BCC, DLF BDAWG, etc.) + community groups + https://aorta.coop/

One more presentation in the #OpenResearch devroom about PANDORAE, an open system built to ease access to the fascinating (but closed, for legal reasons) content of the French Web that is systematically archived by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (1+ PB of data across millions of websites, only accessible for researchers on site)

#fosdem2025 #archivists

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5223-closed-data-open-software-building-new-ways-into-the-french-web-archives/

#Archivists Work to Identify and Save the #Thousands of #Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

#Why are they disapearing ?
#Where are they going to ?

https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/

#Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of #Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government open data on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website’s own information. Since Donald #Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database.
#archive

https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/

Urgent #solidarity is needed. We don't know what the future holds, but we know we have each other.

Is there a way we can help? Please let us know.

#libraries #librarians #archives #archivists

https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/post-election-message-to-the-library-community/