What does ‘Archiving in the public interest’ mean? GDPR musings
GDPR is just a few days away! And the deluge of emails from long-forgotten mailing lists shows no signs of …
Category Archives: Law and ethics
The Queen’s Speech
Yesterday, in the Queen’s Speech at the Opening of Parliament, the UK Government outlined plans for the Data Protection Bill. …
Gosh! It’s a Data Protection Revolution
Manage modern archives in the UK? Watch out! The GDPR is coming to shake up your data and you and …
Free your Orphans!
Struggling with copyright? You’re not alone. Archives in the UK contain millions of “orphans”. These works are in copyright but …
Joyful June: copyright law to change for the better
This June, copyright changes for the better! LOOOONG-awaited changes to copyright exceptions are bringing complex and outdated legislation into line …
Bingo for Buttons: the archive accreditation workshop
Back in September (20th to be exact) I went along to a workshop on archives accreditation. Though I’ve been following …
Thank you to Tim Padfield
No!!!!! The cry rose up from record offices and other archives across the land and emails and tweets flew, as …
Five Theses on the Future of Special Collections
“Preservation without use is an empty victory. It ought to be our primary purpose at all times to minimize barriers …
New from Ashgate – Library Space and Archives in Time
The latest catalogue of librarianship books from Ashgate features a couple which should be of particular interest for special collections: …
Too Many Collections, So Little Time?
Are you struggling with increasing numbers of users, demand for digital, crumbling collections, unsuitable storage space, intellectual property conundrums, born-digital …
