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The Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress: Challenges for Information Practice and Information Policy

Posted by Michael Zimmeron July 6, 2015November 29, 2020in Information Law & Policy, Publications, Social Media3 Comments

I'm very excited to announce the publication of "The Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress: Challenges for Information Practice and Information Policy" in the July 2015 issue of First Monday. This work develops some of my earlier posts (here,…

Archival Ethics with Changing Practices: The Impact of Technology

Posted by Michael Zimmeron August 30, 2008in Events, Information Ethics, LibrariesLeave a comment

Reporting again from the SAA conference, I attended an excellent panel this morning on "Archival Ethics with Changing Practices: The Impact of Technology" (program; wiki page), featuring some excellent presentations on the way new information technology is spurring new ethical…

Values in Design: Defining a Privacy-Aware Model for Web Access to Archives

Posted by Michael Zimmeron August 29, 2008in Events, Libraries, Values In Design3 Comments

I'm spending the next few days at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists in San Francisco, and I'm looking forward to learning more about many of the ethical and policy issues confronted by archivists in an…