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Meg Phillips

@megphillips.bsky.social
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Archives. Medieval history. Elizabeth A. R. Brown Archivist at Penn Libraries. Free societies need strong archives!

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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Join me at @kzooicms.bsky.social next year to talk about the archives of medievalists!
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I am in awe of my classmates, as well as our teacher! Thanks for a great week, Lisa (and everyone)!
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#ICArchives will be sharing the recording of this great FAN session on sustainability, as well as many others, on their YouTube channel. #archives m.youtube.com/@ICArchives
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ICA International Council on Archives
The International Council on Archives channel is meant to display and promote the work of archivists and records managers all over the world. This channel is a broadcasting platform for every ICA memb...
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Congratulations to the #ICArchives Forum of National Archivists for a fascinating and wide-ranging program! #Archives
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Ana Flavia Magalhaes of National Archives of Brazil is discussing archive’s role in supporting the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular through support of community archives for historically neglected communities. #archives www.ica.org/event/fan-vi...
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FAN Virtual Colloquiums on Archival Matters 2024 / December - ICA
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Omg- Eira reports that RepoData research project found 18,000 archives in the US. Wow- that’s a lot. Can now start mapping climate risks to all these collections. #archives #climatechange
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Next up, Eira Tansey of Memory Rising on “Climate Change impacts to America’s Archives and Archivists”, with a focus on open data to geolocate archives - and staffing, too. #archives #digitalpreservation #digipres
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Now Lotte Wijsman is discussing the impact of IT & data storage in digital archives on carbon emissions, using oak tree equivalents to make carbon figures understandable. #archives #digitalpreservation
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Should the archives world make our importance in supporting Sustainable Development Goals more explicit? This is something ICA might do as part of archival advocacy.
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
At ICA Forum of National Archivists virtual program on sustainability, ICCROM speaker’s slide includes Archives for Black Lives in Philly! www.ica.org/event/fan-vi...
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FAN Virtual Colloquiums on Archival Matters 2024 / December - ICA
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Happy World Digital Preservation Day #WDPD2024! NARA is celebrating with a new post on Fixity Check fixity-check.blogs.archives.gov
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Fixity Check – Digital Preservation at the National Archives
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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Digitisation is not a means of long-term archival preservation. The vast bulk of archives world-wide are not digitised. A very high percentage in any given repository are still awaiting processing and cataloguing.
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Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Digital Preservation at the National Archives has a new blog. It has the best name. fixity-check.blogs.archives.gov
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Fixity Check – Digital Preservation at the National Archives
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