I’ve mentioned the book Archives Power: Memory, Accountability and Social Justice by Rand Jimerson on this blog on a few occasions but haven’t had a chance to post about it at any length.
Luckily, Kate Theimer of ArchivesNext is convening a group read of the book beginning January 11, the site for which is [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘archivists’
January 4, 2010
‘Archives Power’ virtual reading group
December 7, 2009
New & of Note
An update on the disposition of the archives of the International Criminal Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda is available; see The Documentalist for a good summary, courtesy of James Simon. The fate of the archives has been a matter of particular international controversy. Report S/2009/258 from May [...]
November 17, 2009
Reaching Out at AMIA
On November 4-7, I attended the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ (AMIA) Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Since AMIA is based in the US, and most of its conferences are held here, most attendees are American or Canadian. A handful of participants from larger archiving institutions around the world also usually attend.
There are, however, many [...]
November 11, 2009
AMIA 2009: random notes
We are back from the 2009 Association of Moving Image Archivists conference in St Louis, which concluded Saturday. By we I mean myself, my WITNESS co-archivist Yvonne Ng, and our phenomenal interns Michele DeLia, Teague Schneiter and Valentina Catena.
Randomly, here are some things I saw or heard at AMIA that I liked:
WGBH’s Open Vault [...]
November 2, 2009
Khmer Legacies: Interview with Socheata Poeuv
The Hub is currently featuring a video interview with Socheata Poeuv, a visiting fellow at the Yale University Genocide Studies Program. Poeuv is the founder and director of Khmer Legacies, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the history of the Cambodian genocide by recording video testimonials of its survivors. In this interview (conducted by Teague [...]
October 30, 2009
Non-custodial archiving: U Texas and Kigali Memorial Centre
Non-custodial archival practices and the UT Libraries Human Rights Documentation Initiative partnership with the Kigali Memorial Centre
By T-Kay Sangwand, Human Rights Archivist, Human Rights Documentation Initiative
University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin
With a generous grant from the Bridgeway Foundation, the University of Texas Libraries (UTL) launched the Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) [...]
October 28, 2009
Building a Network for Human Rights Archives and Archivists
By Valerie Love, Curator for Human Rights Collections
The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut
In recent years, archival institutions and organizations have become increasingly concerned with issues regarding human rights records and archival collections. Questions of access, privacy, politics, trust, and ensuring the safety of those documenting abuses and potentially controversial records all [...]
October 27, 2009
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Archiving for Human Rights
Today is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, started in 2005 by UNESCO in order to help “build global awareness of the various issues at stake in preserving audiovisual heritage.” These issues include deterioration and loss due to time, handling, improper storage, format obsolescence, and poor documentation, and they continue to threaten much of [...]
October 20, 2009
The magic of documenting documentation
Guest post from Sarah Van Deusen Philips:
As the project coordinator for human rights at the Center for Research Libraries-Global Resources Network, my primary task is to engage with the life-cycle of human rights documents, which I do through our Electronic Resources Study. In this study, I am busy speaking to human rights field workers, administrators [...]
October 20, 2009
Re-Stalinization and revisionism in Russia
Last week Russian historian Mikhail Suprun was arrested by Russia’s FSB security service for – as Truthdig put it – daring to study Russian history; more specifically, Stalin’s gulags. Suprun’s archives were confiscated; a police official who provided access to archive documents about gulag victims was also arrested. Suprun faces up to four years [...]
