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Best Practices for No-Collection Projects and In-field Analysis
Many agencies have turned to no collection field strategies in recent years. Unfortunately, these strategies vary widely and are implemented with very little data, so we don’t know if they are effective. Several members of the Collection and Curation Committee have...
A Paperless Future? Digital Methods in CRM
This post is authored by Kye Miller, Senior Project Director at PaleoWest Archaeology. At the dawn of my career as an archaeologist, like most of us, I learned to draft site sketch maps with a compass and pacing, all forms and logs were kept on paper, and transects...
SAVE THE DATE: CRM Day on Capitol Hill
SAVE THE DATE: MAY 16-17 Join ACRA in Washington, D.C. on May 16-17 for CRM Day on Capitol Hill! We’ll be meeting with Senators and Representatives to discuss the CRM industry. There are 100 new members of Congress, and lots of new staffers too. We need to...
Tell Us How the Shutdown Affected You
Now that the government has reopened (until February 15 at least), federal government workers are back on the job. President Trump signed a bill that allowed direct federal employees to get back pay for the length of the shutdown – but what about contractors? Many CRM...
Academic-CRM Industry Synergy: Education and Training
PROMOTING SYNERGY BETWEEN THE ACADEMY AND THE CRM INDUSTRY: EDUCATION AND TRAINING I have been leading an ongoing ACRA Task Force focused on “promoting synergy between the academy and the CRM industry” for the past year. The Task Force, consisting of academic and CRM...
Exploring Our Past to Build Our Future – Announcing the 2019 ACRA Conference
The 2019 ACRA Conference may be months away, but preparations are already underway for this exciting event! This year attendees will be converging on Spokane, Washington from October 24–27 to exchange ideas, meet new colleagues, and hear updates on our industry. This...
2019 Award Nominations Now Open
The call for nominations for the 2019 ACRA Awards is now open! ACRA Awards recognize private and public sector clients of ACRA member firms for CRM accomplishments and commitments exceeding those required by various laws and regulations. ACRA Awards also recognize...
Reexamining the 50-Year Rule
This post is authored by Elaine Robinson, Senior Architectural Historian with Commonwealth Heritage Group in Dexter, Michigan. When I entered the world of Cultural Resource Management as an architectural historian, the fifty-year guideline (I refuse to call it a rule)...
ACRA President’s Introductory Message
As is discussed in the first blog post, for 20 years (1994-2014) ACRA hosted a listserv, called ACRA-l. ACRA-l served the CRM community well and provided a much-needed mechanism for CRM practitioners, from novices to company principals, to communicate about issues...
CRM Firms in the News: Volume One
Readers can now find relevant news items compiled all in one place! In our CRM Firms in the News series, we feature recent mentions of ACRA member firms and their projects across the country. Was your firm recently featured in a news article or on social media? Send...