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 […]
CFP: Archival Thinking: Genealogies and Archaeologies
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Archival Science has circulated a call for papers for a special issue on “Archival Thinking: Genealogies and Archaeologies”.
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 […]
Close Reading an Archival Object
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The latest issue of Papers on Language and Literature 55:1 (2019) is a special issue, “Archives, Authority, Aura: Modernism’s Archival Turn”. Of particular interest is Emily Ridge‘s new article entitled, “Close Reading an Archival Object: Reflections on a Postcard from Salvador Dalí to Stefan Zweig, Circa 1938” which offers a complex reading of a single […]
Brittle paper: what can it stand?
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Taking a literal turn in our thinking around materiality and the archived page, the following recent publications examine the mechanics of aged and brittle paper: “Comparing Non-destructive Mechanical Testing Methods for the Assessment of Brittle Papers – The Cantilever, Hanging Pear Loop, and Clamped Fold Tests” by Andrea K. I. Hall, Raymond H. Plaut and Patricia M. McGuiggan, […]
Evidencing the Impact and Value of Special Collections: Report from Research Libraries UK
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On 7 March 2019 Research Libraries UK published a report examining the role that special collections play in enabling research libraries to meet the impact goals, and investigates the ways impact resulting through their various services and activities is evidenced. The findings will be of interest to all associated with such collections, either in collections […]
CFP: Stardom and the archive
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Stardom and the Archive — an International Symposium Saturday 8th February 2020 Followed by a public exhibition event on Sunday 9th February 2020 University of Exeter, Devon, UK Confirmed Keynotes Professor Maryanne Dever (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney) Dr Lucy Bolton (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary […]
Mess and miscellany: new book
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Just released by OUP Canada is Angus Vine‘s new book, Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge. This book will be of interest to scholars working on questions of materiality in particular. Vine examines the early modern manuscript miscellany, an object often dismissed in its disorder and mess. “Drawing on original literary and historical […]
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