Category Archives: archives
Tomorrow’s History & the Role of Public Libraries
I’ve been thinking about digitization and history; specifically the trusim that history is written by the victors (aka the privileged), and what that means for our current era. With literacy and war-conquests-slash-oppression on the part of literate groups, orality became … Continue reading
Community Archives Workshop in Los Angeles
For any readers who are in Los Angeles – or more broadly as a discussion prompt for anyone interested in community-based archives I’m helping to coordinate a workshop on skills for community archives on Saturday, March 1st, at the Southern … Continue reading
Filed under archives, community development
Social Justice in The American Archivist (!)
I’ve been home with the flu, which has provided time to catch up on some reading (ok, also television. But that’s not for this blog.) The latest issue of The American Archivist crossed my desk about a week ago, and … Continue reading
Filed under archives, racism, The Profession
Records as Spoils of War
This is just depressing. http://chronicle.com/free/2008/01/1335n.htm The Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank associated with Stanford University …signed a deal on Monday with the Iraq Memory Foundation—a private, nonprofit group that has had custody of the documents since just after the … Continue reading
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Tagging in Archives
The U.S. Library of Congress’ new Flickr photo tagging effort The Commons is getting lots of attention from info studies folks and the wider blogosphere. The upload of historical photos owned by LC onto such a popular “Web 2.0″ site … Continue reading
Why did I become a librarian (or, archivist)?
In response to Greyson’s audience-participation post about why we became librarians, I thought I’d chime in with thoughts of my own. It’s been great to read the comments from others, and I probably should have put this in the comments, … Continue reading
Filed under archives, LIS education, The Profession
Housing and Accessing the Record of a Genocide
Over on Feministe, contributor Anne has an interesting post on the fate of the archives documenting the proceedings and findings of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). These archives include case files, transcripts, confidential records and audio/visual materials that … Continue reading
Archives, accountability, and the deleted CIA interrogation tapes
News about the deletion of CIA tapes of “harsh” interrogation techniques is getting a lot of coverage in U.S. papers. (See The Washington Post and The New York Times). Why bring it up here? Because it directly illustrates the tensions … Continue reading
Archives, personal records, and privacy
Greyson alerted me to an article from the Vancouver Sun detailing new access policies for British Columbian archives that contain private personal data. Researchers who want to access records with sensitive personal data are being subjected to security checks of … Continue reading
Filed under archives, preservation, The Profession, Uncategorized
Blogging, Remembering and Forgetting
Blogging, Documentation and Retention As I hemmed and hawed over my first blog post – changing topics, editing, deleting – I realized that behind my newbie jitters was lurking an issue I’ve been devoting a lot of time and space … Continue reading
Filed under archives, business, preservation
