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Uplifting Diverse And Marginalized Voices Through Community Archives And Public Programming, Annie E. Tummino, Jo-Ann Wong, Obden Mondésir
Uplifting Diverse And Marginalized Voices Through Community Archives And Public Programming, Annie E. Tummino, Jo-Ann Wong, Obden Mondésir
Urban Library Journal
Queens Memory is a local community archiving project co-administered by the Queens Public Library and Queens College Library. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Queens Memory embarked on a collaborative series of online programs that covered social justice, current events, and the creation of social change. This programming built upon ongoing community oral history and documentation efforts. This article explores how the public programs and oral history initiatives fueled one another, serving to uplift diverse voices within our communities and preserve those voices in the archives. Key ingredients of the programs are discussed, including technology, outreach, collaboration, consent, and format.
More Than Just Cataloging, In Three Acts: Reflections, Adrian Applin, Regina Carra, Sarah Nguyen
More Than Just Cataloging, In Three Acts: Reflections, Adrian Applin, Regina Carra, Sarah Nguyen
Urban Library Journal
This article contains proceedings from a performance-presentation at the 2021 LACUNY Institute called “More Than Just Cataloging, In Three Acts.” It features three performing artist-librarians, showcasing dance, music, and theatre while reflecting on connections between the performing arts and the information professions. Accompanying performance footage shared at the Institute is referenced in this article.
Documents In The Dynarchive: Questioning The Total Revolution Of The Digital Archive, Rachel Pierce
Documents In The Dynarchive: Questioning The Total Revolution Of The Digital Archive, Rachel Pierce
Proceedings from the Document Academy
The digital archive is often described in opposition to its physical counterpart. Media theorist Wolfgang Ernst has coined the term “dynarchive” to describe the former, a phrase that neatly contrasts digital archival remixability with the statis of the physical archive and its hierarchical fond structure. The article both uses and questions this characterization by examining the archive’s physical and digital document practices in three areas: (1) Hierarchical collection description versus individual document description; (2) Original order versus relevance-based results; and (3) Archival selection practices and the illusion of completeness. Archival structure and description have been central to the authority and …
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.
It Matters Who Does This Work: An Interview With Tonia Sutherland, Sophia Ziegler
It Matters Who Does This Work: An Interview With Tonia Sutherland, Sophia Ziegler
Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship
Tonia Sutherland (she/her) is assistant professor in the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She serves on the SAA Council, and is author of the forthcoming book Digital Remains: Race and the Digital Afterlife. Dr. Sutherland holds a Ph.D. and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information, as well as a BA in history, performance studies, and cultural studies from Hampshire College. Her work focuses on the interactions of technology and culture, and emphasizes critical work within the fields of archival studies, digital studies, and science and technology studies. …
News – Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita
News – Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita
Georgia Library Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Review Of Ghosts Of Archive, Genevieve Preston
Review Of Ghosts Of Archive, Genevieve Preston
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Verne Harris' Ghosts of Archive.
Review Of Producing The Archival Body, Lara Michels
Review Of Producing The Archival Body, Lara Michels
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Producing the Archival Body by Jamie Lee.
The Veins That Lighten Dearth: Documenting Hidden Collections In Rural California, Jillian M. Ewalt
The Veins That Lighten Dearth: Documenting Hidden Collections In Rural California, Jillian M. Ewalt
Journal of Western Archives
This case study discusses an archival consulting project to document and preserve hidden collections in rural northern California. The paper provides an overview of the collecting institution (the Mother Lode Land Trust), the collections and their historical context, and the consulting process. The author highlights processing strategies to improve preservation and description while developing a post-custodial approach to managing collections in a rural, community-based archives setting.
News - Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita
News - Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita
Georgia Library Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Aim High: Pushing Collaboration And Outreach Limits For The 50th Anniversary Of Apollo 11, Molly Stothert-Maurer, Julie Swarstad Johnson
Aim High: Pushing Collaboration And Outreach Limits For The 50th Anniversary Of Apollo 11, Molly Stothert-Maurer, Julie Swarstad Johnson
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
Exhibits in archives and special collections function as an important outreach tool for these specialized, sometimes formidable repositories. Exhibits increase public knowledge of available collections, promote engagement with those collections, reach new audiences, and provide opportunities to build bridges across campus units. This case study looks at a rotating exhibition titled Moon at the University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections created to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 20, 2019. This article covers exhibit design, programming and events that accompanied the exhibit, and coordinated efforts across the University of Arizona campus to celebrate this …
Blood At The Root, Jarrett Martin Drake
Blood At The Root, Jarrett Martin Drake
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
What is the sound of silence and what is the sight of absence? The following essay situates itself along those two questions by devoting close ethnographic attention to the lives and afterlives of seven people—Delia, Renty, Jem, Alfred, Fassena, Drana, and Jack—whose reflections resonate and resound throughout the world of archives. I argue that a theory of archival power must consider the role of process and place in the shaping of modern memory practices. The article begins by narrating the story of how these seven people came to occupy the center of the archival universe. Next, it traces a tale …
The Reading Room Goes Virtual: Retooling First Year Experience Class Encounters With Archives And Primary Sources In The Wake Of Covid-19, Deedee Baldwin, Jessica Perkins Smith, Melody Dale
The Reading Room Goes Virtual: Retooling First Year Experience Class Encounters With Archives And Primary Sources In The Wake Of Covid-19, Deedee Baldwin, Jessica Perkins Smith, Melody Dale
The Primary Source
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Fall of 2020, Mississippi State University librarians who taught archives-based First Year Experience classes had to make significant changes to their syllabi. In addition to the classes no longer meeting in the library itself, activities like archival visits, interactions with the physical materials, scavenger hunts, group projects, and games had to be replaced with in-class assignments and projects based on items available in the digital collections. Ultimately, the semester, with all of the stress and unknowns that came with it, gave instructors an opportunity to try new strategies, to increase students’ …
News - Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita, Deborah Hakes
News - Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita, Deborah Hakes
Georgia Library Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Introduction To Western Archivists Meeting Special Issue, J. Gordon Daines Iii
Introduction To Western Archivists Meeting Special Issue, J. Gordon Daines Iii
Journal of Western Archives
Introduction to the special issue related to the Western Archivists Meeting.
“All The World’S A Stage” And Each Has A Role To Play: A Collaborative Cross-Unit Metadata Project In Five Acts, Jessica L. Serrao, Scott M. Dutkiewicz, Charlotte Grubbs, Krista Oldham, Lisa Bodenheimer, Jessica S. Scott, Allison Shultz
“All The World’S A Stage” And Each Has A Role To Play: A Collaborative Cross-Unit Metadata Project In Five Acts, Jessica L. Serrao, Scott M. Dutkiewicz, Charlotte Grubbs, Krista Oldham, Lisa Bodenheimer, Jessica S. Scott, Allison Shultz
South Carolina Libraries
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the metadata team at Clemson University Libraries facilitated a work-from-home project, during which 14 employees across two units described a collection of over 2,400 photographs. From the standpoint of both the metadata reviewers and metadata creators, this session provided an overview of the project, including how it was managed remotely. This presentation reflects a balanced cross-unit perspective on what worked well and what could be improved.
Community Of Practice At The California State University Special Collections And University Archives, Berlin Loa, Pamela Nett Kruger
Community Of Practice At The California State University Special Collections And University Archives, Berlin Loa, Pamela Nett Kruger
Journal of Western Archives
The California State University Archives and Archivists’ Roundtable is a Community of Practice consisting of archivists that meet regularly online, and annually in person. Communities grow from shared interests, resources, concerns, or endeavors. Communities of practice can grow out of a need for connecting with other people who share the same issues, learning environment, or passions. In this article we describe how the CSUAAR group was founded, how it has evolved, and offers a potential model for other archivists to identify, create, and maintain a community of practice through common needs or interest.
Review Of Seeking A New Life For Indigenous Archives, Natalia Kovalyova
Review Of Seeking A New Life For Indigenous Archives, Natalia Kovalyova
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
Thirteen essays in Afterlives of Indigenous Archives, assembled and edited by Ivy Schweitzer and Gordon Henry Jr., collectively respond to the call to reconsider the archive and reinstate the principles and practices of indigenous archiving. The central element of such reconsiderations is the question of power sustained via the Western tradition of print culture and knowledge organization and, consequently, of conflicts and contradictions amassed in non-indigenous repositories that preserve Indigenous heritage. Exploring alternative ways of preserving indigenous materials, the volume takes the reader from institutional frameworks through an examination of specific cases toward projections of digital innovations in indigenous archives …
Concealing In The Public Interest, Or Why We Must Teach Secrecy, Susan Maret
Concealing In The Public Interest, Or Why We Must Teach Secrecy, Susan Maret
Secrecy and Society
Secrecy as the intentional or unintentional concealment of information is the subject of investigation within the humanities, social sciences, journalism, law and legal studies. However, the subject it is not widely taught as a distinct social problem within higher education. In this article, I report personal experience with developing and teaching a graduate level course on a particular type of secrecy, government secrecy, at the School of Information, San Jose State University. This article includes discussion on selecting course materials, creating assignments, and navigating controversial histories. This article also sets the stage to this special issue of Secrecy and Society …
The Invisible Histories Project: Documenting The Queer South, James L. Baggett, Joshua Burford, Maigen Sullivan, Catherine Oseas Champion
The Invisible Histories Project: Documenting The Queer South, James L. Baggett, Joshua Burford, Maigen Sullivan, Catherine Oseas Champion
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
The Invisible Histories Project works with archives and Queer communities in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi to identify and collect material documenting the history of the Queer South.
Archival Evidence Of Exceptional Human Experiences, Blynne Olivieri
Archival Evidence Of Exceptional Human Experiences, Blynne Olivieri
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Archival collections hold tangible documentation of the range of human experience. Diaries, letters, photographs, audio recordings, reports, and other paper and film-based materials tell the stories of people’s lives. Using examples from the vast parapsychology archives and rare book collections at the University of West Georgia, this paper will share people’s first-hand accounts of extraordinary incidents or of their supernatural abilities, from the profound to the disappointing, and from the unexpected to the purposefully sought, including near-death experiences, extrasensory perception, and psychedelic drug use.
News - Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita
News - Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita
Georgia Library Quarterly
News from the Digital Library of Georgia from October to December, 2020.