Archives and Manuscripts is the professional and scholarly journal of the Australian Society of Archivists, publishing articles, reviews, and information about the theory and practice of archives and recordkeeping in Australasia and around the world. Its target audiences are archivists and other recordkeeping professionals, the academic community, and all involved in the study and interpretation […]
Category Archives: Publication
CFP: Archives on Fire
posted by mdever
Call for Papers RECONSTRUCTION: Studies in Contemporary Culture http://reconstruction.eserver.org/ Volume 16.1 (2016) ARCHIVES ON FIRE: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields Archives today are on fire–energized and endangered, mobile and mutable, ubiquitous and unique–as the library’s form and function in society undergo significant changes. Digital tools, open-access platforms, and social networks are transforming the fields […]
The Allure of the Archives
posted by mdever
At long last there is an English translation of Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive. Yale University Press has published a translation by Thomas Scott-Railton entitled The Allure of the Archives which also has a foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis. More information here.
Emily Dickinson The Gorgeous Nothings
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Previously published as a limited edition artist’s book, Emily Dickinson The Gorgeous Nothings is a colour facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s writings on envelopes. Compiled by Marta Werner and Jen Bervin (with a preface by Susan Howe), this striking volume raises all manner of questions about archival scraps, paper and materiality. Published by Christine Burgin/New Directions in […]
The inbox and the shoebox
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The inbox and the shoebox ‘He makes the point that between “the inbox and the shoebox”, only one will be “treasured, hoarded, moved when we move or forgotten to be found afterwards … Emails are a poke, but letters are a caress and letters stick around to be newly discovered.”’ Andrew Hill reviewing To the […]
CFP: Convergence: Special themed issue – Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices
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Convergence: Special themed issue Vol 21, no 1 (February 2015) Digital Archives & Open Archival Practices Guest Editors: Sarah Atkinson and Sarah Whatley This special issue aims to bring together researchers, artists, professionals and practitioners from the field of digital archives and the archiving of practice with an emphasis upon Art, Design, Media, Film and Performing […]
Paris Review: Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis
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Paris Review: Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis “Most people with scholarly inclinations will visit a novelist’s literary archive to follow the paper trails, as manifested through gathered correspondence, stray postcards, marked-upon stationery, and scattered drafts. A couple of months before the recent publication of his collected letters, I visited the William Gaddis Papers […]
The Archive Futures newspaper
posted by mdever
Part of the workshop in Montreal: our own 12 page bespoke newspaper produced by us with The Newspaper Club. You can download The Archive Futures souvenir newspaper
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