New out from Palgrave: Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page. The emergence of digital technologies in the realm of archives has enlivened our understandings of archival materialities and lent a new intensity to our engagements with the archived page by prompting us to consider the potential of paper and the page in ways that we […]
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Postponed: Archives Amplified: Connect, Challenge, Reimagine now 2021
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2020 Archives Amplified Conference Postponed to 2021 In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we regret to advise that the 2020 Archives Amplified Conference, which was due to take place on 26-28 August 2020, has been postponed. Our priority is to ensure the health and safety of everyone involved. There is some uncertainty about how long […]
Image, Knife, Gluepot: Open access book
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While this title technically falls outside the period generally covered in this blog, the topic is nevertheless of interest to those concerned with paper and materiality. Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print by Kathryn M Rudy explores how manuscript pages and fragments travel through time. In her introduction, “Hybrid Books in Flux”, Rudy […]
Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research wins prize!
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The Routledge collection, Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research edited by Maryanne Dever has been awarded a 2018 Mander Jones award from the Australian Society of Archivists. The prize is awarded to the “publication making the greatest contribution to the archives profession in Australia”. The judges’ citation reads: “An impressive scholarly work bringing together twelve thought-provoking and […]
Archives and Manuscripts: Back issues now available open access
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The Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) have announced that Volumes 1-39 (1955 – 2011) of the journal Archives & Manuscripts can now be accessed online, via an open access platform. All volumes are full-text searchable and globally accessible. Visit the Archives & Manuscripts Online Archives to access hundreds of articles by archival and recordkeeping academics, researchers, practitioners, students […]
New book: Shadow Archives
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Just out from Columbia University Press is Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature by Jean-Christophe Cloutier. This title may be of interest for its central focus on literary archives and in particular how Cloutier “provides a nuanced view of how archival methodology, access, and the power dynamics of acquisitions shape literary history”. More […]
New book on technology and complex materiality
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ARC Humanities Press has released the new title by Bill Endres, Digitizing Medieval Manuscripts: The St. Chad Gospels, Materiality, Recoveries, and Representation in 2D & 3D. While outside the historical period mainly covered on archivefutures, it may be of interest nevertheless in terms of the how it advances debates around digital technology and complex materiality. […]
Designing the Archive, Adelaide, October 2019
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The program is now available for Designing the Archive in Adelaide, 21-25 October 2019. “The conference theme Designing the Archive is about putting people at the centre of what we do. It provides an opportunity to explore how data and information managers, records managers and archivists are using, or can use, human-centred design approaches to ensure we deliver […]
The taste of the archive in the digital age: article
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Quite exciting to locate this article today via the Documentary Heritage News digest: Le goût de l’archive à l’ère numérique published in La vie des idées. Anyone familiar with Arlette Farge’s book will immediately recognise the reference and also the importance of seeking to extend her thinking into the digital era. By the time Farge’s wonderful […]
Just out: Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515 – 2015
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New from Rowman & Littlefield is the Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515 – 2015 edited by Luciana Duranti and Patricia C. Franks. At 596 pages it’s a hefty tome! From the publisher’s website: The Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515-2015, is a reference work that includes the profiles of authors of literature about records and archives in […]
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