Archival Studies

Islands, specifically the former colonial islands of the Caribbean and the Pacific, share many similar archival and records issues. Questions around the repatriation and custody of colonial documents mingle with the archiving and preserving of the oral and performative records of indigenous communities. Drawing on her own island experiences, Jeannette Bastian explores the concept of a cultural archives as a fruitful and productive path towards the documentation of these dynamic island communities. Jeannette A Bastian is a Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston where she directs their archives education program. She was Territorial Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands 1987 to 1998 and received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999. She has published widely in the areas of collective memory, post-colonialism and archives education. Her books include Owning Memory: How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History (2003), Archival Internships (2008), and Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory (2009).

Kelvin Smith Library 2014 Digital Scholarship Colloquium Sound Students in the Archive Melissa A. Hubbard, Head of Special Collections and Archives, Case Western Reserve University 11/6/2014 This presentation will explore a collaboration between librarians and a Radio & Television faculty member to teach digital preservation methods to undergraduates interested in professional careers in audio engineering. The collaborators designed a series of lecture-based and hands-on instruction sessions to introduce students to a complete audio digitization workflow. Each student eventually digitized a reel-to-reel radio recording from the 1970s, then wrote a paper and participated in a roundtable discussion about digital preservation of archival recordings. Potential future directions for this type of instruction will be considered based on feedback from the student participants. Colloquium website: http://library.case.edu/ksl/freedmancenter/colloquium/2014colloquium/

Public access to archives is fundamental to writing and re-writing history, essentially determining what we can and cannot know about our own history. In this lecture Jenny Hocking reflects on the critical role of archives, drawing on her biography of Gough Whitlam and The Dismissal Dossier. Revelations from the archives in these works transformed the history of Whitlam and the dismissal of his government by Governor-General Sir John Kerr on 11 November 1975. Yet key documents remain closed - the 'Palace letters' between the Queen and the Governor-General, held in the National Archives of Australia, are embargoed by the Queen. How can we understand our history if we cannot access the documents that reveal it to us? Professor Hocking considers this central problematic of archival research, control over access, focusing on her legal action against the Archives seeking the release of the Palace letters.

October is National Archive Month, so all month long we'll be giving you a behind the scenes look at our Putnam Collection Center, how we receive artifacts, and the wonderful people that keep everything safe and organized. This week, archivist Lauren Amundson, tells us why she loves her job!

This video series examines some of the stories behind Tate’s archives of British art, exploring questions and processes that are emerging from their collection, conservation and use. What does the word archive mean to you? Hear from artists, gallery volunteers, and history experts about the sorts of things you can find in archives. What secrets do archives hold and how can your own experiences and possessions be of archival value?

The UCLA Department of Information Studies present the 2021 Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies: The Pink Room and Archive Stories. Join us for this engaging webinar with Jennifer Douglas, Assistant Professor, iSchool, University of British Columbia. This talk tells archive stories. It tells stories about intimate relationships that form in, through and around archives: relationships between a mother’s archives and a daughter’s archives; between the living and the dead; between a researcher and the subjects of her research. The story begins in 2018. Or 1999. Or 1981. It begins with a line in a diary: “Do Not Look in Here!!! This is my Diary!! This is Lara Gilbert’s LIFE!!”

Find out more about our new MA in Library and Archive Studies, featuring our staff and academic experts across our different library facilities. Learn about the teaching methods and professional skills that will equip you for a career in the library and archiving sector. 00:00 Why is Manchester the perfect place to study Library and Archive Studies? 01:21 What are the teaching methods? 02:12 What will students learn? 02:36 Who is this course for? 03:00 What careers will this course prepare you for? This MA focuses on contemporary practices in collection-led librarianship and archival studies. It provides unique curriculum-based access to world leading special collections and comparative cultural institutions alongside a strong professional practice element. Find out more here: https://uom.link/library-yt

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The UCLA Department of Information Studies presents The 2022 Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies "The Black and Latinx Experience in the Literary Archive Market" featuring Amy Hildreth Chen Independent Scholar Join us for an engaging webinar Thursday, January 20, 2022 - 6pm PST Register Here Abstract The sale of authors’ papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin to Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in recent years. In Placing Papers, published with University of Massachusetts Press in 2020, Amy Hildreth Chen described the history of how this multimillion-dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considered what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others had on this burgeoning economy. In her Kenneth Karmiole in Archival Studies Lecture, Chen will revisit the demographic data and trends she analyzed in her monograph from the writers listed in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (2007) before expanding her discussion with new data highlighting the unique circumstances faced by the authors of color listed in the Norton Anthology of African American Literature (2014) and the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010). Chen will conclude with a meditation on the future of the market, including the quandaries that archivists, authors, dealers, and researchers of all backgrounds must face.

Verne Harris, Director of Research and Archive at the Nelson Madela Foundation, spoke at the UCLA Information Studies Department annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies about "Archive Banditry and the Ghosts of Zapiro and Derrida." Verne is an honorary research fellow with the University of Cape Town, participated in a range of structures which transformed South Africa's apartheid archival landscape, including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and is a former Deputy Director of the National Archives. Widely published, he is probably best known for leading the editorial team on the best-seller "Nelson Mandela: Conversations with Myself." He has served on the Boards of Archival Science, The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, The Freedom of Expression Institute, and the South African History Archive.