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News Releases
Armed gunmen raid salvadoran human rights organization, burn archives2013-11-15
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
Armed gunmen raid Salvadoran human rights organization Pro-Busqueda just months after abrupt closure of Archdiocese's human rights office, Tutela Legal. Human rights defenders see actions as effort to...
Connexions Archive seeks a new home2009-11-18
Connexions Information Sharing Services
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
EducationSources.caSources
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp...
Grassroots Archives: Preservation as subversion?2012-10-08
Ulli Diemer of Connexions, a social justice library and archive - www.connexions.org - discusses problems facing grassroots archives at a talk sponsored by the Humanist Association of Toronto (HAT).
Sex Information and Education Council of Canada Launches New Website2009-10-21
SIECCAN, The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
Sex Information and Education Council of Canada Launches New Website
Sources welcomes Michael Riordon2010-04-14
Michael Riordon
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio a...
Tom Tomorrow Collection Donated to The OSU Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum2015-01-23
Ohio State University
Dan Perkins donates "Tom Tomorrow Collection" to The Ohio State University Libraries'
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Sources Select Resources
Aboriginal Archives GuideArticle
2007
Association of Canadian Archivists
Activist archiving in TorontoLithgow, Michael
Article
2013
Alternative Archive
People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
Aletta Institute for Women's HistoryOrganization
The Aletta Institute holds books, magazines, archives, works of music, photographs, posters, diaries, letters, all sorts of household and personal objects relevant to women and women’s lives. Home of ...
Anglican Church of Canada ArchivesOrganization
Anglican Church of Canada
ArcheionWebsite
Archives Association of Ontario
Archeion brings together information about archives held by organizations all over Ontario. Archeion is a service provided by the Archives Association of Ontario (AAO). Search Archeion to find records...
Archival ScienceSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The theory and study of the safe storage, cataloguing and retrieval of documents and items.
Archives Association of British Columbia ToolkitArticle
2016
Archives Association of British Columbia
The AABC Archivist's Toolkit offers access to a wide range of on-line and published resources for archivists and archives workers at all levels. Special care is taken to provide resources for small an...
Archives Associaton of Ontario ResourcesArticle
Archives Associaton of Ontario
Web-based resources for archivists compiled and curated by the AAO, Archives Advisor, Archeion Coordinator, and various committees.
Archives under siege: Ottawa gathering calls for national actionWhat We Have Lost, What We Stand to Lose: The Future of Archives and Archivists in Canada
Lithgow, Michael
Article
2013
Alternative Archive
Report about a public meeting about the state of archives in Canada today.
Archiving With May Day RoomsFrom the Marx Memorial Library to Cold Bath Fields
Linebaugh, Peter
Article
2013
CounterPunch
In our day, as the traces of our radical movements are being thrown into rubbish pits, as state sponsored “austerity” demands the commodification of every inch of space, and with sinister intent destr...
Are Canada's Archives for Sale?Corcelli, John
Article
1999
Sources
Armed gunmen raid salvadoran human rights organization, burn archivesSources News Release
Article
2013
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
Armed gunmen raid Salvadoran human rights organization Pro-Busqueda just months after abrupt closure of Archdiocese's human rights office, Tutela Legal. Human rights defenders see actions as effort to...
'Badass Librarians' Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient ManuscriptsWorrall, Simon
Article
2016
National Geographic
Scholars used donkey carts, boats, and teenage couriers to smuggle a priceless collection out of Timbuktu.
BequestsLeaving a social justice legacy
Article
2017
Connexions
Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to ...
Bracero History ArchiveDatabase
The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mex...
Burning History in San SalvadorDestruction of Historical and Human Rights Archives
Maslin, Sarah
Article
2013
CounterPunch
On Thursday, Nov. 14, three armed men broke into the offices of Pro-Búsqueda. The attack on Pro-Búsqueda was not a random crime. We should be worried about what is happening in El Salvador.
Canada's Science Library Closures Mirror Bush's PlaybookSimilar moves by US Republican president met sharp backlash from 10,000 scientists.
Nikiforuk, Andrew
Article
2014
The Tyee
The Harper government is now eliminating seven Department of Fishery libraries containing one of the world's most comprehensive collections of information on fisheries, aquatic sciences and nautical s...
The Case for Grassroots ArchivesDiemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden historie...
Le Centre d'histoire et d'archives du travailOrganization
Le Centre d'histoire et d'archives du travail (CHAT) se consacre à la préservation de la mémoire des syndicats québécois, menacée en l'absence d'une intervention concertée. Il a pour mission de sensib...
Connexions Archive home pageWebsite
2011
Connexions Archive & Library
The Connexions Archive & Library is Toronto-based project dedicated to keeping alive the rich history of grassroots movements for social justice.
Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture FocusWebsite
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
Connexions Library: History Focus PageWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
Connexions Library Subject IndexWebsite
1975
Connexions Information Sharing Services
A comprehensive subject index of documents in the Connexions Library.
Cuts and Closures at Canada's federal librariesArticle
2013
Federal libraries are an important part of Canada’s cultural heritage. These specialist libraries house some of Canada’s most important collections. Dozens of federal departmental libraries across the...
Destruction of Labor History Archives at Ruskin College, OxfordPoe, Ryan
Article
2012
LAWCHA - Labor and Working-Class History Association
The archives of Ruskin College, pioneer institution of working-class education, have been partly destroyed, on the instructions of the college principal and despite protests and an offer from the Bish...
Diemer, UlliConnexipedia Article
Article
2010
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
The Digital Dark Ages: Movies and Books Get Deleted as Selfies Pile UpRall, Ted
Article
2015
Counterpunch
Historians and archivists call our times the "digital dark ages." The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the recorded his...
Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say ScientistsHarper government shuts down 'world class' collection on freshwater science and protection
Nikiforuk, Andrew
Article
2013
The Tyee
The Harper government has dismantled one of the world's top aquatic and fishery libraries as part of its agenda to reduce government as well as limit the role of environmental science in policy decisi...
Double Fold (Wikipedia article about the book by Nicholson Baker)Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
2007
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a non-fiction book by Nicholson Baker that was published in April, 2001.
EducationSources.caWebsite
2017
Sources
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp...
Eric Marshall laments closure of namesake Fisheries libraryRusland, Peter
Article
2014
Cowichan News Leader
The government seems to be saying 'We want to exploit our natural resources, whether it's natural gas or oil sands, and basically to heck with environmental impacts.'
Files linking Britain to Israel's nuclear weapons go missing from National ArchivesArticle
2016
Official documents on Britain's relationship with Israel, including papers on "military and nuclear collaboration" in the 1970s, have disappeared from the National Archives in the last four years.
Finding aidWikipedia article
Article
A finding aid, in the context of archival science, is a document containing detailed information about a specific collection of papers or records within an archive. Finding aids are used by researcher...
Finding the truth amid Israel's liesPappe, Ilan
Article
2018
Electronic Intifada
The famous – and by now overused – expression that history is written by the victors can be countered in many ways. One way is by unpacking the victors’ publications in order to expose the lies, fabri...
FondsWikipedia article
Article
In archival science, a fonds is the aggregation of documents that originate from the same source. More specifically, a fonds distinguishes itself from a collection through its organic nature, as archi...
For bibliomaniacs, there is no cureLiterary hoarders were once seen as antiscocial but historians thank them now
Berry, Lorraine
Article
2017
The Guardian Weekly
An essayist looks into the curious pastime of book collecting, as well as her own lifelong passion to grow her collection.
For the Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story - in pictures Photo/Image/Poster
2012
The Guardian
During the Bosnian war, a group of men and women risked their lives to rescue thousands of irreplaceable Islamic manuscripts -- and preserve a nation's history. Amid bullets and bombs, this handful of...
Free Speech Movement ArchivesWebsite
Documenting the history of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
From Cave Paintings to the InternetNorman, Jeremy
Article
2013
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media.
Google can't be trusted to look after our booksBarron, Simon
Article
2011
The Guardian
The author warns that Google's lack of accountability to the public could put its digital collection in jeopardy should it become too expensive to maintain. He argues that the protection of cultural r...
Grassroots archive information sheetAbout your archive - collection - resource centre - library
Article
2012
Connexions
Connexions is working on a project to help network grassroots archives and collections of materials about activist and radical history. If you have a collection of social justice materials in your bas...
The Great Book RobberyBrunner, Benny (director)
Film/Video
2012
As Palestinians were expelled from their land in 1948, librarians from Israel’s National Library followed the militias as they forced their way into Palestinian homes. Their mission was to collect as ...
How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare BooksDavis, Natalie Zemon
Article
2013
New York Review of Books
I have wanted to be a historian of hope. We can take heart from the fact that no matter how dire the situation, some will find means to resist, some will find means to cope, and some will remember and...
How to Keep Union RecordsNash, Michael (ed.)
Article
2010
Society of American Archivists
IISH in Archives Portal EuropeArticle
2014
Social History Portal
Archival materials at the IISH are now accessible through Archives Portal Europe. The portal provides access to information on archival material from the inventories of hundreds of archival institutio...
IntelligentSearch.caWebsite
2017
Sources
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make ...
ipl2 Collection Policy (Internet Public Library)Article
The ipl2 is an educational, research, and service laboratory; two of its major roles are educating students at graduate schools of information and providing library services to internet users.
Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?Sources News Release
Article
2012
Connexions
Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
Leather Archives & MuseumOrganization
The Leather Archives & Museum is a library, museum and archives pertaining to Leather, fetishism, sadomasochism, and alternative sexual practices. The geographic collection scope is worldwide and incl...
Librarians and PalestineAn Interview with Vani Natarajan
Jacobs, Ron
Article
2013
CounterPunch
Working to preserve Palestinian records and memory in the face of deliberate destruction by Israel.
Library of Congress AuthoritiesDatabase
Library of Congress
Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can browse and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations; and download authority records in MARC format for use in a local...
Life in StillsTal, Tamar
Film/Video
2011
The Heymann Brothers Films
A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments.
Lost Memory: Libraries and Archives destroyed in the Twentieth Centuryvan der Hoeven, Hans; van Albada, Joan
Article
1996
UNESCO
This document lists major disasters that have destroyed or caused irreparable damage during the 20th century to libraries and archives, whether written of audio-visual.
Martin Luther King Jr's Radicalism Muted by MLK Archives' Corporate SponsorsPatel, Raj
Article
2014
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
The MLK Archive, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase and Co., omits Martin Luther King Jr's speech delivered at Carnegie Hall on February 23, 1968 on the 100th anniversary of W.E.B Du Bois' birth. The speech ...
Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of MemoryPreservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Article
2012
Connexions and Beit Zatoun
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). G...
Memory and Repression in El SalvadorMcAnarney, Alexandra
Article
2013
Truthout
The raid on Pro-Busqueda happened three days after the Salvadorean Supreme Court heard testimony from survivors of a 1982 raid carried out by government forces.
Moving 750 million pages of print archive to a new homeArticle
2013
BBC
For 82 years, researchers have made the journey to Colindale in north London, the home of the British Newspaper Library, a vast collection of almost every British newspaper published in the last 300 y...
Online initiatives abound at the Library of CongressLaFrance, Adrienne
Article
2013
Guardian Weekly
Card catalogues vanish from sight at the Library of Congress.
Other Voices: The Connexions NewsletterSerial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
A newsletter with news and articles about current issues, as well as news from the realm of grassroots archives and people's history. Also featuring selected items from the Connexions Calendar, Seeds ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2014Surveillance
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
The first issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter. Topic of the week is Surveillance. Articles on climate politics, 21st-century land grabs, and the destruction of Canada's science libraries....
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014Killings by Police
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015Ukraine
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in th...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018Massacres and Morality
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2018
Connexions
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line,...
Oxfam donates archive to the Bodleian LibrariesArticle
2013
Oxford-based international development charity Oxfam has announced it has donated the organization’s archive, spanning the last seventy years, to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries. Now, w...
The Oxford Guide to Library Research - ReviewArticle
1998
An excellent guide to doing research, explaining research methods and strategies and their strengths and weaknesses of. See review in Sources Select Resources.
The past belongs to everyone: British Library calls on public to help piece together historyGhazal, Rym
Article
2015
The National
As the British Library thrusts itself into the digital age, more than a million images from its archives are available online. And it wants the public's help to expand what is known about them.
Preservation (library and archival science)Wikipedia article
Article
Preservation is a branch of library and information science concerned with maintaining or restoring access to artifacts, documents and records through the study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of...
Public historySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Public history is a term that describes the broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are generally working outside of specialized academic set...
Quotes about ArchivesUnclassified
Connexions
Repositories of Primary SourcesEastern United States and Canada
Website
Rural India - a living journal, a breathing archiveThe everyday lives of everyday people
Sainath, P
Article
2015
Pari
Project on rural India consisting of an archive which depicts its diverse and complex countryside.
Save the feature before it explodesSeveral films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1920s are being fully restored
Miller, Henry K.
Article
2011
The Guardian
Nine films Hitchcock directed during the 1920s will be restored by archivists at the British Film Institute before the volatile nitrate reels combust. The film archivists' work and the hirstory of the...
Saving past is first step to the futureFick, Maggie
Article
2010
The Guardian
The archives of southern Sudan are all currently housed in a tent donated by USAid. Many documents have been damaged due to the poor storage facilities. The Rift Valley Institute, a non-profit researc...
Sci-fi author Judith Merril and the very real story of Toronto's Spaced Out Library A prolific author and pioneer Merril's donation of 5,000 items started the Toronto Public Library's massive speculative fiction collection.
Bradbeer, Janice
Article
2018
Toronto Star Newspapers
The story of Judith Merril's work promoting and developing Science-fiction writing in Canada, and the founding of the Rochdale Library, which later became the Spaced Out Library.
Secret Memo Casts Doubt on Feds' Claims for Science Library ClosuresGoal stated is 'culling' research, not preserving and sharing through digitization
Nikiforuk, Andrew
Article
2013
The Tyee
A federal document marked "secret" obtained by Postmedia News indicates the closure or destruction of more than half a dozen world famous science libraries has little if anything to do with digitizing...
South Africa's short memoryHarding, Jeremy
Article
2015
Le Monde diplomatique
The migrants so recently attacked in South Africa almost all came from neighbouring countries that paid a high price in death and ruin for supporting anti-apartheid struggles.
South Sudan archivists fear loss of historical textsMorgan, Hiba
Article
2018
Al Jazeera News
South Sudan doesn't have a museum, so thousands of archival documents are sitting in a small building in the capital, Juba, waiting for a national archives to be built. The project will also need the ...
To spread the revolution: anarchist archives and librariesMoran, Jessica
Article
2016
Libcom.org
Notes on why anarchists have created libraries (past and present) and some of the challenges they face, drawing on a survey of current anarchist libraries, anarchist history, and the author's own expe...
Tom Tomorrow Collection Donated to The OSU Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & MuseumSources News Release
Article
2015
Ohio State University
Dan Perkins donates "Tom Tomorrow Collection" to The Ohio State University Libraries'
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
The treasures of TimbuktuThe race is on to preserve papers dating back to a west African golden age
Rice, Xan
Article
2007
The Guardian Weekly
West African scholars are quickly discovering the wealth of manuscripts burried in and near Timbuktu dating from the 11th century. Governments and universities are building archives in which to house ...
United Church of Canada ArchivesOrganization
United Church of Canada
Web archivingSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web and ensuring the collection is preserved in an archive, such as an archive site, for future researchers, historians, and the p...
What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to ThemAnd The Reasons LC Needs to Maintain Classified Shelving of Books Onsite, And A Way to Deal Effectively with the Problem of "Books on the Fl
Mann, Thomas
Article
2009
The Library cannot solve its space problems by adoption of a "digital strategy"
without seriously damaging our larger mission to promote scholarship of unusual scope and
depth. If the Library’s own ...
What is Going on at the Library of Congress?Mann, Thomas
Article
2006
What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC
administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating ...
What's Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada's Science Libraries?Scientists reject Harper government claims vital material is being saved digitally
Nikiforuk, Andrew
Article
2013
The Tyee
Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital ...
Whose Archive? Whose History? Destruction of Archives at Ruskin College, OxfordArticle
2012
History Workshop Online
A repository of lived experience of the trade union and labour movement of the twentieth century is being deliberately trashed.
Why Israel is blocking access to its archivesCook, Jonathan
Article
2016
Al Jazeera
Israel is concealing vital records to prevent darkest periods in its history from coming to light, academics say.
Why the Newberry Library Is Collecting Black Lives Matter ArtifactsHurst, Adrienne
Article
2016
Chicago
Archivists hope to crowdsource historical documentation of today's civil-rights movements.
World's oldest library reopens in Fez: 'You can hurt us, but you can't hurt the books'Shaheen, Kareem
Article
2016
The Guardian
After years of restoration, the ninth-century Qarawiyyin library in north-eastern Morocco is finally set to reopen – with strict security and a new underground canal system to protect its most prized ...
Sources Bookshelf
Archive That, Comrade!Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance
Cohen, Phil
Book
2018
Archive That, Comrade! explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate.
Double FoldLibraries and the Assault on Paper
Baker, Nicholson
Book
2001
Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries' "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of ...
Finding AnswersThe Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada
Tudor, Dean
Book
1993
Outlines the essentials of how to find and use information.
Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual LibrariesJohnson, Alex
Book
2015
Improbable Libraries showcases a wide range of images and interviews with librarians who are overcoming geographic, economic, and political difficulties to bring the written word to an eager audience.
Keepers of the RecordThe History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives
Simmons, Deidre
Book
2009
Offers a comprehensive look at the development of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives over three centuries. Archives trace the history of the fur trade, North American exploration, the growth of a retai...
Kill The MessengersStephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know
Bourrie, Mark
Book
2015
Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information - the lifeblood of democracy in Canada - is under attack.
The Library at NightManguel, Alberto
Book
2006
The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
The Oxford Guide to Library ResearchMann, Thomas
Book
1998
An overview of little-known but powerful strategies used by librarians and information specialists, with clear explanations of fundamental methods searching.
Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of DocumentsGitelman, Lisa
Book
2014
Four essays making up a short book on where the history of media and technology overlap.
Pictures Bring Us MessagesSinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Brown, Alison, K., Peers, Laura, with members of the Kainai Nation
Book
2006
An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
Sources Select ResourcesReviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Website
1977
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
An Unauthorized Biography of the WorldOral History on the Front Lines
Riordon, Michael
Book
2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New ...
Anglican JournalNational news magazine of the Anglican Church of Canada. Covering issues of importance to Anglicans.
The Archivist/L'ArchivisteA free, bilingual, information-packed magazine highlighting the archival resources and services of the National Archives of Canada.
Government Ministries & Agencies
Canada Aviation and Space MuseumThe museum's collection policy is to illustrate the development of the flying machine in both peace and war from the pioneer period to the present time.
Department of Canadian HeritageAmalgamation of certain programs from former Department of the Secretary of State, Parks Canada, Multiculturalism and Citizenship, Amateur Sport, and Communications Canada. Mandate is to ensure a stro...
National Film BoardCanada#s public film producer and distributor.
National Research Council of CanadaCanada's premier organization for research and development.
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