EDUCATING FILIPINO ARCHIVISTS AMIDST THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY ARCHIVAL PROFESSION
As the archival profession takes off to further assert its importance in the society, it is necessary that would be archivists be equipped with the necessary understanding of the evolving archival landscape, and all other issues that go with it.
ASSESSMENT OF DIGITAL PRESERVATION NEEDS TOWARDS CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN THE UP SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES
Digital preservation concerns the policies, strategies, and actions undertaken to ensure continued access to digital information over time. These actions are guided by standards and guidelines which are reflected in courses and certifications on digital preservation. In the Philippine setting there is no established course on digital preservation in the undergraduate LIS curriculum and practitioners rely mostly on seminars and workshops for education on the subject. The paper identifies the ideal competencies for digital preservation as observed from industry needs with the goal of integration into the existing curriculum. Data was collected by document analysis of known standards and the use of qualitative interviews with five institutions, one professional organization, and two universities. A need for digital preservation was observed in respondent institutions, but also revealed the institutions' lack of awareness of digital preservation theories and standards. The proposed digital preservation course by the University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies was found to satisfy most needs. The majority of unsatisfied needs were observed to be management related and indicative of the need for a separate course in archival management.
Television from the Trenches: An Archival Review of No Price Too High
This review article examines the use of archival sources for the television documentary No Price Too High: Canadians and the Second World War, which first aired in 1996. The author is guided by the contextual approach to records, which is based on knowledge of the origin, original purposes, and characteristics of records. The article contends that some of the most effective stories in the documentary are those which respect the original nature and provenance of records and make explicit the connections between related records. Few events, if any, have received as much attention in historical documentaries as the Second World War. Because the war was one of the most significant world events in recent memory and also because it generated an unprecedented amount of visual and oral documentation, it is an obvious choice for documentary filmmakers. Indeed, the Canadian specialty channel History Television has been criticized for offering little else. In Canada, the 1992 broadcast of The Valour and the Horror, a documentary on the history of the Second World War, was a watershed moment in the public debate over * This article was drafted from the author's thesis as part of the Master of Arts degree in Archival Studies at the University of Manitoba. The author is grateful for the guidance, support, and editorial assistance of Dr. Tom Nesmith in its creation. 1 Christopher Moore, “History Television: Stay Tuned,” The Beaver 78, no. 1 (February-March 1998), pp. 50–51. For a discussion of the proliferation of Second World War documentaries, see Eric Barnouw, Documentary: A History of Non-Fiction Film, Second Revised Edition (New York and Oxford, 1993).