While the Beinecke Library like so many others is currently closed, it is possible to view online some of their exhibition, “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800”. There is a beautifully detailed exhibition brochure and a series of videos on different aspects of the materials on display. The Brochure for Subscribed at the Beinecke Library describes […]
Category Archives: Cultural Heritage
Cutting up manuscripts or do you like my new ‘mystery bag’?
posted by mdever
Just catching up on the coverage of Sekrè, a German-Swiss startup, which is creating luxury handbags with “a secret” – namely, that they contain a fragment cut from a rare letter or document. Marketed with the tagline that “Every woman needs a secret”, the start-up – which claims Sekrè is the Haitian word for “secret” […]
Now out! Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page
posted by mdever
New out from Palgrave. 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 have hitherto largely ignored. Paper, Materiality […]
CFP: Archives Amplified: Connect, Challenge, Reimagine
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The Australian Society of Archivists has published the Call for Papers for their 2020 conference in Brisbane in August 2020. Archives Amplified: Connect, Challenge, Reimagine Definition of amplify (am-pli-fy) to expand by the use of detail, illustration or closer analysis; to expand one’s remarks or ideas; to enlarge upon or add context (to […]
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 […]
