The South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) is a volunteer-run not-for-profit organization that documents, preserves and provides access to the history of the South Asian American community through a digital archive, available online at http://www.saadigitalarchive.org.
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A recent decision by a French court ? paving the way for the return of former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega to Panama after more than 20 years in prisons in the United States and France ? has made a long-standing
…The Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, August 25-27, 2011, convened over 180 experts from 32 countries and six continents to help re-articulate the public interest dimension in intellectual property law and policy. This document records the
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…Friday morning, those of us attending SAA heard outgoing president Helen Tibbo talk about the future of the archives profession, and the problems it currently faces. She talked about the archivists who have been laid off, or who have had
…It’s taken 24 centuries, the work of archaeologists, scholars and historians, and the advent of the Internet to make the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible to anyone in the world. Today, as the new year approaches on the Hebrew calendar, we’re
This is just a friendly reminder that the New England Archivists’ Fall Meeting will take place on?Friday and Saturday, October 14 & 15 at?Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The meeting theme is “Teaching with Primary Sources.” You …
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the first meeting! ?If you were unable to make it, don?t worry! ?You have a lot of opportunities to attend a SCoSAA event this semester. ?Here?s a recap of what happened:
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…Some years back, and for what seemed like quite a while, people were talking about scrapbooking. As more aspects of everyday life were going digital, it felt like more and more people were paying homage to the paper-based mementoes of
The Nixon and Reagan libraries are near one another in California, but far apart in philosophy.
…“The Reagan library is the way presidential libraries have been in the past,” said Jon Wiener, a history professor at the University of California,
