Here is an interesting article by Siham Alaoui published in theconversation.com web site: Archivists assist users like historians, genealogists, students or citizens in locating, accessing and interpreting archives. Archival reference services have long been seen as services that mediate understanding and dialogue between archivists, users and archives to make documentary objects more accessible and usable. Recent years have seen the introduction …
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Indiana Broadcast History Archive Preserves the Stories of the Storytellers
For residents of Indiana, names like Howard Caldwell, Ken Beckley, Barbara Boyd and Anne Ryder may ring a bell. They are among the many local broadcasters Hoosiers have welcomed into their living rooms over the years to deliver the day’s news from the warm glow of a television. At Indiana University Bloomington, a professor and …
What Can Someone Do With Your DNA Sequence?
With the recent news that hackers stole data from around 6.9 million users of the genetic testingvcompany 23andMe, it’s understandable that some might have concerns as to what someone could do with that information. Whilst no DNA records were reported stolen, it does beg the question of the potential consequences if they had been. After all, you can …