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Archiving Transgender: Affects, Logics, And The Power Of Queer History, Kelly Jacob Rawson May 2010

Archiving Transgender: Affects, Logics, And The Power Of Queer History, Kelly Jacob Rawson

Writing Program – Dissertations

Archiving Transgender:Affects, Logics, and the Power of Queer History examines three archives that collect transgender material in order to analyze archives as rhetorical sites where a complex interplay of language, politics, logic, and affect shape archival research. Current scholarship in rhetorical historiography has (re)turned to archives to consider the rhetorical dimensions of archives themselves and the impact these dimensions have on researchers (Kirsch and Rohan; Morris; Ferreira-Buckley). I extend and complicate this line of inquiry by focusing specifically on transgender archival practices and logics. Transgender archiving is an especially rich site for critical investigation because of the complexities of the …


Genre, Database, And The Anatomy Of The Digital Archive, Elizabeth J. Vincelette Apr 2010

Genre, Database, And The Anatomy Of The Digital Archive, Elizabeth J. Vincelette

English Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to define shared characteristics of literary digital archives, specifically to explore how conceptual and structural qualities of such archives express generic qualities. In order to describe digital media such as database or digital archives, scholars resort to metaphors, and this study offers the metaphor of anatomy as a generic inscription with historical and methodological implications. The definition of the anatomy genre draws from Northrop Frye's in Anatomy of Criticism, in which Frye describes how anatomies are characterized by proliferating lists, the mixing of prose and non-prose forms, and self-reflexivity--under the guise of knowledge …


A Woman In The Archives: The Legacy Of Margaret C. Norton, Stephanie M. (Stephanie Marie) Brown Jan 2010

A Woman In The Archives: The Legacy Of Margaret C. Norton, Stephanie M. (Stephanie Marie) Brown

WWU Graduate School Collection

Margaret C. Norton (1891-1984) was the first state archivist of Illinois and a prominent personality in the early history of the archival profession. She made an indelible mark on the history of the early archival profession through her many written works, her work concerning the "nuts and bolts" of the archival profession, her involvement with the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and other organizations. Drawing from numerous influences she was a prolific writer, thinker and worker who held strong opinions at a time when it was not common for women to do so. This thesis uses Norton's personal papers and …


Propuesta De Un Cuadro De Clasificación De Archivos Para Los Colegios De La Comunidad De Agustinos Recoletos De Bogotá, Jeimmy Andrea Castro Garavito Jan 2010

Propuesta De Un Cuadro De Clasificación De Archivos Para Los Colegios De La Comunidad De Agustinos Recoletos De Bogotá, Jeimmy Andrea Castro Garavito

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

El presente trabajo de grado propone la elaboración de una herramienta de control de clasificación documental para los colegios de la comunidad de los Agustinos, la cual permitirá establecer el criterio archivístico, para proceder de manera normalizada a la organización de sus fondos documentales. Además cuentan con sistemas de control y calidad que en su aplicabilidad se entiende la necesidad de contar con taxonomías y herramientas para lograr categorizar la información para con ello tomar decisiones estandarizadas además de darle un significado con nombre propio a la información, esto emitido en un cuadro de clasificación documental. La herramienta de clasificación …