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Back to work…

1, 27 August, 2010 3 comments

I’ve had a bit of a break from blogging – well, it is the summer (or what passed for it in the UK), and so we’ve been on holiday.  August is usually quite quiet in the University – many staff are on holiday, there are very few students around – so it’s often a time for catching up, getting ahead or simply taking stock.

The last couple of weeks have been spent in some hard last-minute work on my forthcoming paper on appraisal for the Society of Archivists’ conference next week – hopefully it will pay off!  I’ve caught up with a lot of reading as well, much for my paper.  As there won’t be time when I’m speaking to reference everything fully, here’s some of the background reading.  In keeping with the topic, this is not an exhaustive list – ie it’s selective…

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Winter 1

1, 10 February, 2010 Leave a comment

Captured or frozen?
records dance meltingly on
the continuum

Categories: Records continuum, theory

The Records Continuum in the real world

1, 5 November, 2009 Leave a comment

I finally listened to Northumbria’s RM Today podcast (from August…) on the records continuum http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/ceis_podcasts/episode06.php.

James Lappin & Joanne Evans did a really good job of untangling the continuum, particularly the diagram which has haunted me – and it seems, others – since I first saw it on someone’s ppt slide and didn’t get it.

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