Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory

doi:10.29085/9781856049047

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence? This book offers guidance for archivists, record managers and museums professionals faced with such issues in their daily work. This edited collection explores the relationships between communities and the records they create at both practical and scholarly levels. It focuses on the ways in which records reflect community identity and collective memory, and the implications of capturing, appraising and documenting these core societal elements - with particular focus on the ways in which recent advances in technology can overcome traditional obstacles, as well as how technologies themselves offer possibilities of creating new virtual communities. It is divided into five themes: a community archives model; communities and non-traditional record keeping; records loss, destruction and recovery; online communities: how technology brings communities and their records together; and, building a community archive. This book will appeal to practitioners, researchers, and academics in the archives and records community as well as to historians and other scholars concerned with community building and social issues.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction to the series
pp ix-x
- By Geoffrey Yeo
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Acknowledgements
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Contributors
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Introduction: Communities and archives – a symbiotic relationship
pp xxi-xxiv
- By Jeannette A. Bastian, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, Ben Alexander, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York
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Part 1 - A community archives model
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1 - ‘It is noh mistri, wi mekin histri.’ Telling our own story: independent and community archives in the UK, challenging and subverting the mainstream
pp 3-28
- By Andrew Flinn, Director of the Archives and Records Management MA programme in the Department of Information Studies at University College London, Mary Stevens, post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL)
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2 - Special, local and about us: the development of community archives in Britain
pp 29-46
- By David Mander, London
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Part 2 - Communities and non-traditional record keeping
pp 47-48
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3 - The Single Noongar Claim: native title, archival records and aboriginal community in Western Australia
pp 49-64
- By Glen Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council in Perth, Australia
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4 - Oral tradition in living cultures: the role of archives in the preservation of memory
pp 65-86
- By Patricia Galloway, BA in French from Millsaps College (1966), MA (1968) and PhD (1973) in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), and a PhD in anthropology (2004), also from UNCCH
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5 - We are our memories: community and records in Fiji
pp 87-94
- By Setareki Tale, University of New South Wales, Opeta Alefaio, National Archives of Fiji
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Part 3 - Records loss, destruction and recovery
pp 95-96
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6 - Archiving the queer and queering the archives: a case study of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA)
pp 97-108
- By Marcel Barriault, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
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7 - A living archive, shared by communities of records
pp 109-132
- By Eric Ketelaar, Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam
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8 - Truth commissions and the construction of collective memory: the Chile experience
pp 133-148
- By Joel A. Blanco-Rivera, University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences
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Part 4 - Online communities: how technology brings communities and their records together
pp 149-150
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9 - From Yizkor Books to weblogs: genocide, grassroots documentation and new technologies
pp 151-168
- By András Riedlmayer, University of Chicago (BA, history), Princeton University (MA, near Eastern studies) and Simmons College (MS, library and information science), Stephen Naron, Stockholm, Sweden
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10 - Co-creation of the Grateful Dead sound archive: control, access and curation communities
pp 169-194
- By David A. Wallace, Lecturer IV and Research Investigator at the School of Information, University of Michigan
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Part 5 - Building a community archive
pp 195-196
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11 - ‘All the things we cannot articulate’: colonial leprosy archives and community commemoration
pp 197-220
- By Ricardo L. Punzalan, assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of the Philippines.
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12 - Overcoming anonymity: Kittitians and their archives
pp 221-234
- By Victoria Borg O'Flaherty, Director of Archives at the National Archives of St Kitts-Nevis
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13 - Always queer, always here: creating the Black Gay and Lesbian Archive in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
pp 235-250
- By Steven G. Fullwood, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
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Conclusion: The archivist and community
pp 251-264
- By Richard J. Cox, Professor in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh
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Bibliography
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Index
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Miscellaneous Endmatter
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