Historical notes, General Electric Company; being a history of Thomson-Houston Co. and Edison General Electric Co. which were consolidated to form the General Electric Co.

CONDITION: Good.

Why few succeed and millions fail,

CONDITION: Good.

Report - Public Archives of Canada.

Appendix 42 in the report of the minister of agriculture for 1874 consists of a Report of proceedings connected with Canadian archives in Europe, by H.A.J.B. Verreau.

Records management manual for Illinois state agencies.

Cover title.

State Records Act and State Records Commission rules.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Illinois State Archives.

Description based on: [1961]

Letters of Montiano; siege of St. Agustine [sic]

A collection of 36 letters dated from Nov. 11, 1727 to Jan. 2, 1741, copied from letter books in the East Florida archives at St. Augustine for F. L. Hawks and certified by the archivist in 1844. No. 1 is signed by Manuel Joseph de Justis, the others (bearing certain numbers between 2 and 248) by Manuel Montiano.

Raphael's Madonna Gonzaga; technical proofs of authenticity and history of the painting,

CONDITION: Good.

Radiant road to reality; tested science of religion,

CONDITION: Good.

AGENDA- SETTING NO TWITTER: A CAMPANHA ELEITORAL NO MUNICÍPIO DE SÃO PAULO EM 2012

O objetivo desse trabalho é identificar uma hipótese analisada há 40 anos em uma nova forma de comunicação. A proposta é buscar a comprovação do agenda-setting, ou agendamento, no Twitter durante a eleição para a Prefeitura de São Paulo no ano de 2012. Para isso, recorremos a três portais de notícias que nos serviram como laboratório de fontes , que nos pautavam na busca pela repercussão dessas notícias na Internet. A partir da definição de alguns termos que acompanharam os três principais candidatos à prefeitura de SP, partimos para uma procura por esses termos no Twitter, através da ferramenta The Archivist . Os termos foram divididos em positivos , negativos e neutros , para identificarmos qual o tipo de conteúdo era mais repercutido. Os resultados da pesquisa identificaram uma maior repercussão de termos que representavam atributos negativos dos candidatos, analisando o agendamento dos portais de notícias como uma forma de reforço desses atributos negativos, comprovando a agenda da contrapropaganda política no Twitter.

Tullich Aberdeenshire : a reappraisal of an early ecclesiastical site and its carved stones in the light of recent excavations

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank Bruce Mann of Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service for his support throughout and for funding Area F and Historic Scotland for granting SMC for the excavation of Area A. Thanks are due to the tenant farmer Allan Adams and to Helen Rickwood, Jan Dunbar, Colin Mitchell, Sheila Young, Emma Gibson, Veronica Ross, Irvine Ross, Brian Dewar and Sheila Duthie for their work on site. We are grateful to Ian Cameron for help in gathering oral history of some of the crosses found in the 1950s/60s. John Borland, Katherine Forsyth, Simon Taylor and Ross Trench-Jellicoe have provided valuable comments on the sculpture. We would like to thank Invercauld Estate for access to their archive and permission to photograph and reproduce the Scroll Plan, and their honorary archivist, Sheila Sedgwick for her help and patience. We are grateful to Nigel Trewin for identification of the geology of the crosses. The drawings of Tullich 16 and 17 are by Jan Dunbar.

Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables

In my thesis, “Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables,” I ask and answer the ‘Who? What? Where? When? Why?” of Creole Literature using the 19th century production of Aesopian fables as clues to resolve a set of linguistic, historical, literary, and geographical enigmas pertaining the ‘birth-place(s)’ of Creolophone Literatures in the Caribbean Sea, North and South America, as well as the Indian Ocean. Focusing on the fables in Martinique (1846), Reunion Island (1826), and Mauritius (1822), my thesis should read be as an attempt capture the links between these islands through the creation of a particular archive defined as a cartulary-chronicle, a diplomatic codex, or simply a map in which I chart and trace the flight of the founding documents relating to the lives of the individual authors, editors, and printers in order to illustrate the articulation of a formal and informal confederation that enabled the global and local institutional promotion of Creole Literature. While I integrate various genres and multi-polar networks between the authors of this 19th century canon comprised of sacred and secular texts such as proclamations, catechisms, and proverbs, the principle literary genre charted in my thesis are collections of fables inspired by French 17th century French Classical fabulist, Jean de la Fontaine. Often described as the ‘matrix’ of Creolophone Literature, these blues and fables constitute the base of the canon, and are usually described as either ‘translated,’ ‘adapted,’ and even ‘cross-dressed’ into Creole in all of the French Creolophone spaces. My documentation of their transnational sprouting offers proof of an opaque canonical formation of Creole popular literature. By constituting this archive, I emphasize the fact that despite 200 years of critical reception and major developments and discoveries on behalf of Creole language pedagogues, literary scholars, linguists, historians, librarians, archivist, and museum curators, up until now not only have none have curated this literature as a formal canon. I also offer new empirical evidence in order to try and solve the enigma of “How?” the fables materially circulated between the islands, and seek to come to terms with the anonymous nature of the texts, some of which were published under pseudonyms. I argue that part of the confusion on the part of scholars has been the result of being willfully taken by surprise or defrauded by the authors, or ‘bamboozled’ as I put it. The major paradigmatic shift in my thesis is that while I acknowledge La Fontaine as the base of this literary canon, I ultimately bypass him to trace the ancient literary genealogy of fables to the infamous Aesop the Phrygian, whose biography – the first of a slave in the history of the world – and subsequent use of fables reflects a ‘hidden transcript’ of ‘masked political critique’ between ‘master and slave classes’ in the 4th Century B.C.E. Greece.

This archive draws on, connects and critiques the methodologies of several disciplinary fields. I use post-colonial literary studies to map the literary genealogies Aesop; use a comparative historical approach to the abolitions of slavery in both the 19th century Caribbean and the Indian Ocean; and chart the early appearance of folk music in early colonial societies through Musicology and Performance Studies. Through the use of Sociolinguistics and theories of language revival, ecology, and change, I develop an approach of ‘reflexive Creolistics’ that I ultimately hope will offer new educational opportunities to Creole speakers. While it is my desire that this archive serves linguists, book collectors, and historians for further scientific inquiry into the innate international nature of Creole language, I also hope that this innovative material defense and illustration of Creole Literature will transform the consciousness of Creolophones (native and non-native) who too remain ‘bamboozled’ by the archive. My goal is to erase the ‘unthinkability’ of the existence of this ancient maritime creole literary canon from the collective cultural imaginary of readers around the globe.

Television history: archives, excavation and the future. A discussion

This article considers possible futures for television (TV) studies, imagining how the discipline might evolve more productively over the next 10 years and what practical steps are necessary to move towards those outcomes. Conducted as a round-table discussion between leading figures in television history and archives, the debate focuses on the critical issue of archives, considering and responding to questions of access/inaccessibility, texts/contexts, commercial/symbolic value, impact and relevance. These questions reflect recurrent concerns when selecting case studies for historical TV research projects: how difficult is it to access the material (when it survives)? What obstacles might be faced (copyright, costs, etc.) when disseminating findings to a wider public? The relationship between the roles of ‘researcher’ and ‘archivist’ appears closer and more mutually supportive in TV studies than in other academic disciplines, with many people in practice straddling the traditional divide between the two roles, combining specialisms that serve to further scholarship and learning as well as the preservation of, and broad public engagements with, collections. The Research Excellence Framework’s imperative for academic researchers to achieve ‘impact’ in broader society encourages active and creative collaboration with those based in public organizations, such as the British Film Institute (BFI), who have a remit to reach a wider public. The discussion identifies various problems and successes experienced in collaboration between the academic, public and commercial sectors in the course of recent and ongoing research projects in TV studies.

Experiments and Archives in the Expanded Field

All This Stuff: Archiving the Artist explores the documentation of the creative process. From their different viewpoints, fifteen leading artists, archivists and art historians reflect on the ways that artists and archivists deal with all this stuff , and how artists manage and relate to their own archives. This is a timely and important book, based on work initiated by the Art Archives Committee of ARLIS, the Art Libraries Society of the UK and Ireland. The book addresses issues from the perspectives of the archivist as well as those of the artist. At a time when more members of the library profession are being asked to manage artists archives, it is important to address the challenges associated with the special nature of this material. All This Stuff: Archiving the Artist provides artists and researchers valuable insights into the archival process, addressing questions such as what material should artists be keeping? What will happen to their material after it has been accepted by an archive? It also explores how an archivist or researcher can approach an artist s archive in a non-traditional way. The experiences described by the different contributors offer a practical understanding of the challenges facing researchers working with artists archives, and will help to raise awareness among artists of the longer-term value of their archival material, and the unpredictable ways in which it may be recontextualised, explored and interpreted in the future.

Reflexiones desde un servicio de referencia: propuestas para mejorar la atención al ciudadano en los archivos

Este artículo propone avances en la normativa, los procedimientos y los medios de los servicios de referencia, con la finalidad de mejorar la atención al ciudadano en los archivos. Para ello se examinan, desde la experiencia, la teoría y la práctica existentes, considerando particularmente la problemática a la que se enfrentan los archivos históricos que dependen del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Los resultados demuestran la necesidad de implementar la legislación estatal de archivos, aprovechar las nuevas tecnologías para la normalización y para la simplificación de los procedimientos, contar con unos medios suficientes, así como la evaluación y la formación de los usuarios.