I’ll be a bit swamped with other obligations, so there may not be very many meaty posts for a while, but I’ll do my best not to completely slack off. In the meantime, here are some other things to read on the Web, just to keep you off the streets and out of trouble:
OCLC has released the final draft of the report “”Capture and Release”: Digital Cameras in the Reading Room” billed as “short report by an RLG group on advantages of allowing hand-held cameras in special collections. The report includes a modular, re-usable, pick-and-choose form that incorporates items from the many camera policies this group surveyed.”
Jenny Levine (aka The Shifted Librarian) has a great post up on how to manage an organizational Twitter account. (She manages one of ALA’s Twitter accounts.) Definitely worth looking at for those of you who tweet for your organization or are contemplating doing so.
The University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections has designed an online student research tutorial that demonstrates how to plan and carry out research in an archives and how to incorporate the primary sources found in archives in research assignments. The tutorial is primarily intended for undergraduate students, even those who have no prior primary research experience, to use independent of the classroom. Looks like a great resource to me–what do you think of it?
And the industrious Gordon Belt over at The Posterity Project blog has compiled a handy list of links to the recent spate of NARA in the news items, including a couple of interesting interviews with the new Archivist.
National Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Outreach, Twitter | Kate T. | 
January 13, 2010 12:08 pm 
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