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Review: Archival Silences: Missing, Lost And, Uncreated Archives, Alison Reynolds
Review: Archival Silences: Missing, Lost And, Uncreated Archives, Alison Reynolds
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Review: Archival Silences: Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives. Edited by Michael Moss and David Thomas (New York: Routledge, 2021), 257 pp. Reviewed by Alison Reynolds.
Review: Decolonial Archival Futures, Michelle Schabowski
Review: Decolonial Archival Futures, Michelle Schabowski
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Review: Decolonial Archival Futures. By Krista McCracken and Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists and American Library Association), 2023. 86 pp. Reviewed by Michelle Schabowski.
Review Of “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy Of Terry Cook, Grant G. Mandarino
Review Of “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy Of Terry Cook, Grant G. Mandarino
Journal of Western Archives
Review of “All Shook Up”: The Archival Legacy of Terry Cook.
No Manuals: Archives Administration 100 Years After Jenkinson’S Manual, James Lowry, Riah Lee Kinsey, Aimee Lusty, Ezra Hyman, Phyllis Heitjan, Alexander Rettie, Kylie Goetz
No Manuals: Archives Administration 100 Years After Jenkinson’S Manual, James Lowry, Riah Lee Kinsey, Aimee Lusty, Ezra Hyman, Phyllis Heitjan, Alexander Rettie, Kylie Goetz
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
This article discusses authority and the codification of professional principles in the archival field by comparing Sir Hilary Jenkinson’s Manual of Archive Administration (1922) with the contents of a wiki called A (New) Manual of Archive Administration, created by the Archival Discourses research network in the lead up on the centenary of Jenkinson’s text. Instead of a systematic comparison of the two texts, the article uses the mode of the “wiki game” to randomly navigate the intellectual content of the wiki. The authors then make comparisons between the wiki entries and the ideas espoused in Jenkinson’s manual. This comparison …
Review Of Ghosts Of Archive: Deconstructive Intersectionality And Praxis, Rose Buchanan
Review Of Ghosts Of Archive: Deconstructive Intersectionality And Praxis, Rose Buchanan
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
Ghosts of Archive: Deconstructive Intersectionality and Praxis explores the relationship between archives and power to posit an archival praxis centered around justice. Drawing on his experiences working for South Africa's National Archives and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Harris shows how archives have the potential for oppression and liberation, harm and healing. His work will appeal to all readers interested in social justice.
Goodbye Presentation, Zhihui Zhang
Goodbye Presentation, Zhihui Zhang
Library Presentations
In this capstone presentation, visiting Chinese doctoral student Zhihui Zhang explains how she came to study at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center; the archival projects she worked on, the individual people she met with, and the cultural heritage organization tours she went on; the differences and similarities between American and Chinese archival theory and practice; and how this experience will inform her Ph.D. program and her dissertation.
Subjectivity And Methodology In The Arch'i'Ve, Elizabeth J. Vincelette
Subjectivity And Methodology In The Arch'i'Ve, Elizabeth J. Vincelette
English Faculty Publications
This article explores methodologies from the fields of library archival science, human geography, composition and rhetoric, and established editorial practices in English studies. By elaborating on the role of a researcher’s subjectivity in archival creation, this work expands the conversation regarding methodology and archives, especially how archives present us with new ways of seeing and making narratives during the editorial decision-making involved in their creation. Writing about my own experience, I privilege the researcher’s point of view with a narrative about my construction of a digital archive. With archival research, we should promote the revelation of methods and methodology to …
Exploring The American Archivist: Corpus Analysis Tools And The Professional Literature, J. Gordon Daines Iii, Cory L. Nimer, Jacob R. Lee
Exploring The American Archivist: Corpus Analysis Tools And The Professional Literature, J. Gordon Daines Iii, Cory L. Nimer, Jacob R. Lee
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
The literature of a professional community provides insights into what members of that community value and underscores key professional issues. Periodic analyses of professional literature are an important way for these communities to identify trends that deserve further exploration. This article introduces the use of corpus analysis tools such as Voyant Tools and discusses their value in performing periodic analyses of professional literature. As an example, it presents a limited study examining the use of the term “theory” in the American Archivist.
Heritage, Records & Trust: Understanding SocietyʼS Past Through Social Media?, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Lisa P. Nathan
Heritage, Records & Trust: Understanding SocietyʼS Past Through Social Media?, Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Lisa P. Nathan
Elizabeth M. Shaffer
The relationship between the archival concept of the record requires examination and analysis in a social media context. If there is a desire to systematically collect and preserve accounts of daily life, archival theory must account for changing information systems, both the tools and the practices through which we engage them. At the same time system designers need to draw upon contemporary archival theory. The field of human computer interaction is uniquely positioned to work with archivists to both inform archival theory and to be informed by archival theory in recognition of the longer-term, multi-lifespan functions information systems play in …
Postmodernism, Processing, And The Profession: Towards A Theoretical Reading Of Minimal Standards, Melanie Griffin
Postmodernism, Processing, And The Profession: Towards A Theoretical Reading Of Minimal Standards, Melanie Griffin
Melanie Griffin
While the ramifications of minimal standards processing for practice are well-documented, the theoretical questions which Greene and Meissner's 2005 article "More Product, Less Process" raises are not. This article seeks to address the broader ideological and theoretical questions involved in recent minimal standards processing recommendations through analysis of Greene and Meissner’s original article and the immediate responses and case studies which it generated, in order to relate this body of literature to theory-driven notions of archival administration.4 By identifying theoretical issues in writings on MPLP rather than focusing on practice alone, it is possible to move beyond the pejorative, reductive …