Strategies for Implementing a Mass Digitization Program

[Excerpt] In 2007, OCLC published the report Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get Into the Flow to bring to the forefront a much needed conversation about digitization of archival collections, and access to the rich content accessible only through paper or other analog formats. The authors emphasized that any successful large digitization program would focus on access and quantity. They challenged archivists to rethink policies, procedures, and technologies that either slowed the process of mass digitization, or were unfriendly to the implementation of a rapid capture program. Recent articles, blog posts, and columns demonstrate that we as a profession continue to grapple with ways to implement digitization programs that are both sustainable and efficient. The strategies offered in this paper highlight a practical program for the mass digitization of organizational archival records using a rapid capture process that is replicable regardless of the size or resources of the repository. It will review the establishment of a rapid capture workflow at the University of Minnesota Archives; provide details on how it functions, including equipment information, scanner settings, and workflow procedures; explain the selection process for scanning; describe how it has helped to create inreach opportunities; and finally, examine how it has changed not only daily operations, but the perspective on what it means to provide broad access to the collections

A Cyber Security Multi Agency Collaboration for Rapid Response that Uses AGILE Methods on an Education Infrastructure

Part 1: Innovative MethodsInternational audienceThis study provides a summary and analysis of a cyber security multi agency collaboration for rapid response by Regis University (RU), in partnership with the Colorado Army and Air Force National Guard (CONG) and the State of Colorado (SOC), deploying AGILE methods to improve the ability of the CONG and SOC to respond to attacks against Colorado’s critical infrastructure. The summary covers formative discussions and about a year-long series of physical exercises, lectures and certification exams that advanced the study participants domain knowledge, awareness of SOC policy and communication with industry. Other states and territories can use the model to the benefit of their citizens. Events included multiple simulations, physical exercise scenarios, and table top exercises designed to give real-world substance to more abstract cyber security concepts and integrate physical world consequences to actions performed by the participants

Legal empire: international law and culture in U.S.-Latin American relations

Title from PDF of title page, viewed on May 30, 2013Thesis advisor: Dennis MerrillVitaIncludes bibliographic references (pages 114-119)Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013During the first decade of the twentieth century, U.S. Secretary of State, Elihu Root, used international law as mode of contact and communication in which he could persuasively present U.S. cultural values in terms of social, political, and economic expectations as a way of creating change within Latin American societies. This represented a less intrusive and seemingly more respectful way of exerting influence in the region all for the purpose of addressing Washington's concerns with national security and economic stability. Though the United States, as expressed by Root, articulated certain moral and ethical principles of conduct in foreign relations and invited Latin America to adopt those principles, the true focus and concern within international law from the U.S. perspective was creating a world in which U.S. political and economic interests could thrive. As adopted and deployed by Elihu Root, international law projected certain cultural constructions that defined America's understanding of civilization, which had the effect of creating more rigid boundaries of separation among nations. America's definition and application of civilization to foreign affairs installed further support for intervention by the United States when Latin American nations did not satisfy the cultural expectations of the United States. Constructions of gender and race within international law laid a foundation for scientific and political inequality among nations while also establishing basic expectations for behavior. Root's civilization expected nations to act with manly strength and self-mastery in all things, especially in resolving disputes and satisfying financial obligations. Failure to meet those preconditions to civilization signified an uncivilized and racially inferior nation in need of the civilizing paternalism of the United States. The legal discourse within international law that Root stimulated produced mixed responses and results. Politicians like Luis Drago of Argentina communicated within the legal forum to assert an independent Latin American identity under the law. Yet this same ruling class of elites to which Drago belonged communicated their support for those legal principles articulated by Secretary Root when that ruling class could advance their domestic programs of economic development and policies based on racial superiority.Routes to empire -- Imperial international law -- Laws of culture -- Conclusio