What do we know about Making Archives by Tonia Sutherland https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw KWL Chart en-us 2019-10-08 20:26:10 UTC 2020-09-21 23:14:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.pics/1/image.webp?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f913.png For archival studies scholars and practicing archivists, archives-emphasis on the "s"-are collections of records, material and immaterial, analog and digital (which, from an archival studies perspective, is just another form of the material), the institutions that steward them, the places where they are physically located, and the processes that designated them "archival." (Caswell 2016) toniasutherland https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395372720 2019-10-09 01:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395372720 Archive as a profession is relatively young and new https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373055 and so we are having to define and refine it as it develops]]> 2019-10-09 01:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373055 Appraisal & Selection https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373102  
That we cannot keep everything and that not everything is meant to be kept 
]]> 2019-10-09 01:11:57 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373102 Archivists have come out of a western (French school) and homogeneous background. Many archives of other groups are very new and have had to be made by the communities that they represent https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373157 2019-10-09 01:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373157 https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373158  
” …we generally keep what we are, what we are most comfortable with, what we know…” (Cook, 2011) 

]]> 2019-10-09 01:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373158 what we keep defines who we are or what we believe ourselves to be https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373181 2019-10-09 01:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373181 Different ways of thinking about archives, records, and memory in different cultures. toniasutherland https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373245 2019-10-09 01:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373245 Archivists are trained in the West and have helped to sustain and promote a colonialist and imperialist agenda. Archiving is also a way for the community to reclaim their voices. PussInBoots https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373253 2019-10-09 01:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373253 Community https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373288 It is healthy and encouraged to involve and encourage community input and participation into archives. It can be a great strength to have a powerful wide-range archive.
(https://archivingpoliceviolence.org/principles)]]> 2019-10-09 01:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373288 how do we archive information that is entangled between different cultures and has different values to different people? https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373380 2019-10-09 01:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373380 The focus of archivists shifted from being centered around archives as ‘truth,’ evidence, authenticity, defending the integrity of the record, to archives as story, as narrative, as part of a societal and governance process of remembering and forgetting, of concern about power and margins(Cook, 2011) https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373428 2019-10-09 01:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373428 https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373532 Communities give themselves the chronicles they need in order to understand the world, just as individuals create for themselves the stories they need in order to survive with a sense of self. . . .A nation that does not take into account the multitude of suppressed memories of the majority of its people will always be weak, basing its survival on the exclusion of dissent and otherness. Those whose lives are not valued, not given narrative dignity, cannot really be part of the solution of the abiding problems of our times (Cook, 2011).

]]> 2019-10-09 01:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373532 Are there, or, how do archivists train in other countries...? Or is it all western based completely? Are there any universities or programmes that train archivists from a non-Western lens? PussInBoots https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373563 2019-10-09 01:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373563 Archivists should be in contact and have dialogues with the indigenous communities represented in their collections. And the same should apply to any community represented in an archive really. https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373607 2019-10-09 01:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373607 Diversity https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373622 What does it really mean to have diversity and inclusion in an archive? All voices represented in records? All voices represented in staff?]]> 2019-10-09 01:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373622 Archivists make a conscious choice on what to keep and preserve based on a range of criteria. https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373768 2019-10-09 01:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373768 Archivists hold power and can partake in the writing or erasure of history. PussInBoots https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373798 2019-10-09 01:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373798 Political Power https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373879 Archives not only document the past but is used for fates of the future]]> 2019-10-09 01:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373879 Archives are ALWAYS political https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373895 2019-10-09 01:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373895 citizen-state activities https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373903 citizen-state activities; we are ready to share that appraisal function with citizen, broadly defined, where we engage our expertise with theirs in a blend of coaching, mentoring, and partnering(Cook, 2011)]]> 2019-10-09 01:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395373903 proactive https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374021 how do we effectively be proactive in archives, especially since it is so dynamic]]> 2019-10-09 01:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374021 Screening https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374089 Is there ever something in an archive that is too graphic or sensitive for use? Where is that line? ]]> 2019-10-09 01:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374089 It seems as though the definition of archives is in flux. How do we define archives in practice moving forward into our careers? decosmoj1 https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374169 2019-10-09 01:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374169 In what ways can archives look very different? https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374321 2019-10-09 01:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374321 Randal Jimerson wanted archivists to be proactive since archives as institution can increase "accountability, open government, diversity, and social justice." https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374375 2019-10-09 01:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374375 the defining characteristic of a record is not its ability to serve as evidence, but as a springboard for memory (Caswell via Faulkhead, 2016) https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374491 2019-10-09 01:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374491 https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374876 where is the line between selection and censorship?]]> 2019-10-09 01:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395374876 https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395375038 we cant save everything, and thats ok]]> 2019-10-09 01:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395375038 "the related but separate notion that the archivist should be positioned as an objective curator, passive and neutral, rather than as conscious mediator, activist and subjective" (Millar)--we want politics out of archives, but then want to re-insert them? Especially as a role of activist. How is this helpful? https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395376280 2019-10-09 01:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/toniasutherland/6iplc6t3f1iw/wish/395376280