Archives, Public Records, and Records Management
Archives have existed since ancient times. According to James O'Toole (1990), the term "archives" was originally used to "d...
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The Constitutional Court has struck down the law that opened Romania's secret police archives, a blow to efforts to further expose the country's communist past.Many Romanians contend the law had be...
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Holocaust survivors move closer this week to being able to find a paper trail of their own persecution when the keepers of a Nazi archive deliver copies of Gestapo papers and concentration camp rec...
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The National Archives wants a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking quick access to records about a health care task force Hillary Rodham Clinton headed as first lady, or delay the release for...
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NASA's images from the Apollo moon landings, the Voyager planetary flybys and the many space shuttle missions will be accessible through a central, searchable Web site under a partnership between t...
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The British Library has acquired the archives of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, including his correspondence with leading figures in theater and literature.The library paid $2.24...
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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is offering to help survivors and their families navigate a vast Nazi archive that promises to document their persecution and provide clues to the fate of loved o...
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Eleven nations controlling a long-secret archive of Nazi documents will hold an unscheduled meeting to assess how quickly the files can be opened to researchers, officials said Wednesday.The inform...
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Two more countries have endorsed opening a Nazi war archive to Holocaust museums, bringing the documents locked away for more than half a century a step closer to release, Red Cross officials said ...
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A vast archive of Nazi-era documents started accepting online requests Thursday for information from victims of Nazi crimes and people tracing relatives — a move meant to speed up an often-sl...
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