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Journal of Western Archives

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Archivist To Archivist: Employing An Ethics Of Care Model With Interns And Student Workers, Alexandra M. Bisio, Steve Duckworth, Helena Egbert, Emily Haskins, Gayle O'Hara Mar 2021

Archivist To Archivist: Employing An Ethics Of Care Model With Interns And Student Workers, Alexandra M. Bisio, Steve Duckworth, Helena Egbert, Emily Haskins, Gayle O'Hara

Journal of Western Archives

In their 2016 article, “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives,” Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor posit four “affective responsibilities” for archives and archivists: “the relationship[s] between archivist and record creator, between archivist and record subject, between archivist and user, and between archivist and larger communities.” This paper posits an additional responsibility, between archivist and archivist. There is, as Caswell and Cifor put it, a “web of mutual responsibility” within the professional archives community that has become a central focal point in many discussions and, at the same time, continues to be ignored in maintenance of …


Review Of Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual, Katie Ferrante Oct 2020

Review Of Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual, Katie Ferrante

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Review of Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (third edition).


Review Of Leading And Managing Archives And Manuscript Programs, Maurice R. Blackson Dec 2019

Review Of Leading And Managing Archives And Manuscript Programs, Maurice R. Blackson

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Review of Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscript Program.


The How And Why Of Mentoring, Alison H. Stankrauff, Tom Sommer, Michelle Ganz Jan 2016

The How And Why Of Mentoring, Alison H. Stankrauff, Tom Sommer, Michelle Ganz

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Mentoring those in the archival field is critical to the development of any professional, or budding professional archivist. The mentoring relationship is one that has the potential to inform, nurture, encourage those on both sides of the relationship. This article explores that relationship and the frameworks that foster such mentoring programs. Discussed are mentoring to undergraduates, graduate archival program students, peer-to-peer mentoring of archivists at different institutions, as well as mentoring in the tenure process. This article is meant to be at once informative about such programs as well as offering guidance for those wanting to create a similar mentoring …


Review Of How To Manage Processing In Archives And Special Collections, Jillian Cuellar Jul 2013

Review Of How To Manage Processing In Archives And Special Collections, Jillian Cuellar

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Learning to process archival collections as an intern or student processor constitutes many archivists’ first practical understanding of the archival enterprise. Though this experience is an excellent hands-on opportunity for many nascent archivists to sharpen their project management skills, it does not fully prepare them to manage an archival processing program. Few students in archival graduate programs receive in-depth management training, leaving many to learn effective management techniques without formal guidance. With How to Manage Processing in Archives and Special Collections, Pam Hackbart-Dean and Elizabeth Slomba set out to offer archivists a comprehensive, practical toolbox for managing a processing …