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I work where? I wish I had a dollar for every time a writer used the word “bowels” to describe a library or archive. At best it conjures an image out of The Raiders of the Lost Ark. Boxes haphazardly put down anywhere on the floor just waiting for some researcher to miraculously stumble upon … Continue reading It Came From The Bowels →

Note to non-archivist/librarian readers: this blog post is largely professional insider discussion and, while it may be interesting to some of you it will likely be tl;dr for many others. You have …

Society of American Archivists Attn: Council members 17 North State Street Suite 1425 Chicago, IL 60602-406110 September 2014Dear members of the SAA Council,I am writing to you as a member and crit…

The media trope negates the work done by archivists, who are often well-aware of the existence of ‘long-lost’ letters, journals and stories.

Digital resources provide an opportunity for improved preservation and access to indigenous archival information, but also new challenges when it comes to who has access.

“…what if comic books were not simply a medium of entertainment, but in fact a form of mythology through which we both tell stories about ourselves and look to for guidance, direction and meaning?”…

November is Native American Heritage Month. Visit National Archives News for more information on related events and resources. Today’s post comes from DongEun Kim, a conservator at the Nation…

Erin Glasco (her/hers; they/them) is an archivist and organizer based in Chicago. They have worked on archival projects with Free Street Theatre, the Chicago History Museum, and a Studs Turkel podcast project with WFMT Chicago and Eve Ewing. Additionally, they are currently a part of No Cop Academy, an effort led by Black youth in Chicago to demand $95 million for youth and communities, instead of a new facility for Chicago police. They received their Master’s in Library Science from UIC-UC and currently work as a Visiting Instructor  and Special Collections Librarian at UIC. I first met Erin at the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) as a Journalism undergrad at Columbia College Chicago. They were studying the Paul Robeson FBI files while I was studying ethnomusicology and the interconnectedness of Jamaican Dancehall music within Black American Hip Hop culture. I was astounded by how familiar Erin’s presence felt. Immediately, we were joking and laughing as if we were old college friends. Since 2014, our friendship has strengthened and our careers have aligned and intersected …

A Report from the Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives August 2018. 120 pp. $20 (print version) ISBN 978-1-932326-59-8 CLIR pub 175 PDF Download of Full Report (6 MB) >> Read Japanese translation (courtesy Seigakuin University) >> Order Print Copy: see bottom of page Email is an increasingly important part of the historical Read More

Former archivist Greg Priore and Caliban Book Shop owner John Schulman accused of theft and related counts in alleged 20-year conspiracy.

Samantha Cross is a geek and scholar, so luckily she found a way to combine the two in the form of the POP Archives blog and That Girl with the Curls podcast. Whether it’s interviewing writer…

Author(s): Caswell, ML | Abstract: Much recent discussion about social justice in archival studies has assumed a legalistic, rights-based framework to delineate the role of records, archives, and archivists in both the violation of human rights and in holding individuals and governments accountable for basic human rights, such as the right to life, privacy, and freedom of expression. Yet decades of feminist scholarship have called into question the universality of a rights-based framework, arguing instead that an ethics of care is a more inclusive and apt model for envisioning and enacting a more just society. This article proposes a shift in the theoretical model used by archivists and archival studies scholars to address social justice concerns – from that based on individual rights to a model based on feminist ethics. In a feminist ethics approach, archivists are seen as caregivers, bound to records creators, subjects, users, and communities through a web of mutual affective responsibility. This article proposes four interrelated shifts in these archival relationships, based on radical empathy.

Archival Science - This paper critically explores power structures embedded in archival description and re-conceptualizes archives and archival material as assemblages of politicized decisions...

Decolonial Sensibilities: Indigenous Research and Engaging with Archives in Contemporary Colonial Canada - L'Internationale online