This article explores the processes, practices, and relationships that contribute to how meanings and memories are generated through archives. In the context of a pilot project to develop a methodology for integrating donor interviews into archival practice, I set out to identify existing or potential initiatives by drawing on archival theory, oral history, exchanges with archivists, and two audio-recorded interviews. The first interview – with Shirley Gyles, who donated the Negro Community Centre’s archives to Concordia University in Montreal – is important for its connection to Montreal’s Black community and Concordia’s Special Collections, where the above methodology is now being implemented. The second interview – with Susan Hart, an ar...
For archives preserving the cultural heritage of artists and marginalized groups, community memories...
Canadian archivists played prominent roles in collecting, preserving, and conducting oral history in...
This paper considers the relationship between memory and archives by exploring the concepts of indiv...
Donors of archival fonds are largely neglected in our professional literature, and yet for many arch...
This article examines attempts at the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Coll...
Archives reveal multiple ways in which a person or institution’s path intersects with public interes...
<p>In this article the Author proves archive to be a memorial, as the term is understood by the thes...
This paper explores the ways in which archivists at academic archives can create meaningful relatio...
This article will chronicle how those professionals called archivist, charged with collecting, prese...
Historically, archives have told the stories of the dominant society. Increasingly, archives are exp...
Primarily informed by the debates in archival sciences both concerning the limits and possibilities...
Traditional archival praxis oftentimes depicts the archival donor as an observer and recipient ...
Archives reveal multiple ways in which a person or institution’s path intersects with public interes...
Archivists and historiansusually consider archives as repositories ofhistorical sources and the arch...
As the acquisition of modern, recently created records has become more common, new challenges and op...
For archives preserving the cultural heritage of artists and marginalized groups, community memories...
Canadian archivists played prominent roles in collecting, preserving, and conducting oral history in...
This paper considers the relationship between memory and archives by exploring the concepts of indiv...
Donors of archival fonds are largely neglected in our professional literature, and yet for many arch...
This article examines attempts at the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Coll...
Archives reveal multiple ways in which a person or institution’s path intersects with public interes...
<p>In this article the Author proves archive to be a memorial, as the term is understood by the thes...
This paper explores the ways in which archivists at academic archives can create meaningful relatio...
This article will chronicle how those professionals called archivist, charged with collecting, prese...
Historically, archives have told the stories of the dominant society. Increasingly, archives are exp...
Primarily informed by the debates in archival sciences both concerning the limits and possibilities...
Traditional archival praxis oftentimes depicts the archival donor as an observer and recipient ...
Archives reveal multiple ways in which a person or institution’s path intersects with public interes...
Archivists and historiansusually consider archives as repositories ofhistorical sources and the arch...
As the acquisition of modern, recently created records has become more common, new challenges and op...
For archives preserving the cultural heritage of artists and marginalized groups, community memories...
Canadian archivists played prominent roles in collecting, preserving, and conducting oral history in...
This paper considers the relationship between memory and archives by exploring the concepts of indiv...