August 25, 2025

Ready to Read: Funding Your Archives’ Future: How to Secure Support and Budget for Success

Margot Note

Archivist Margot Note’s newest title is now available from Lucidea Press: Funding Your Archives’ Future: How to Secure Support and Budget for Success.

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August 18, 2025

Redaction in Archives: Ethical Imperatives in a Digital-First World

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As archives increasingly digitize collections and acquire born-digital records, redaction has become more complex than ever. Archivists must weigh privacy, transparency, and t...

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August 11, 2025

Data Privacy in Archives: Navigating Ethics and Access

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With the proliferation of personal data in born-digital and digitized collections, archivists must navigate the tension between access and privacy with care, foresight, and et...

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August 1, 2025

The Archivist’s Dilemma: Ethical Approaches to Surveillance

Margot Note

As surveillance technologies evolve, archivists are increasingly faced with difficult ethical questions. Decisions about what to preserve, how to describe records, and who sho...

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July 28, 2025

Designing for Emotional Engagement in Archives

Margot Note

Discover how emotionally engaged archives use empathy, trauma-informed design, and storytelling to foster meaningful archival experiences.

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July 21, 2025

Designing Accessible Archives: Rethinking the Reading Room Experience

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Discover how archivists can use design thinking to transform archival reading rooms into accessible, welcoming spaces that support discovery and inclusion.

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July 14, 2025

How to Develop User-Centered Archival Discovery Tools with Design Thinking

Margot Note

Design thinking offers a flexible, user-focused approach to improving archival discovery tools. Learn how to apply it to make your collections more intuitive, inclusive, and a...

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July 7, 2025

Design Thinking in Archives: How to Apply User-Centered Design to Collections Engagement

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By embracing user-centered design, archivists can better align their services, programs, and interfaces with the needs, behaviors, and motivations of those who interact with t...

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