icebreaker

What did you learn from writing your paper?

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Shift

Personal archive > evidence vs. memory

Cook

back to the central competing dichotomy in mythologies of the archival profession... the evidence, on the one hand, versus our interpretive or mediating role, on the other, as manifested in all of the many archival processes, the memory-making.

Paradigms

• Evidence: pre-modern archiving—the custodian-archivist guards the juridical legacy
• Memory: modern archiving—the historian-archivist selects the archive (appraisal, description)
• Identity: postmodern archiving—the mediator-archivist shapes the societal archive
• Community: participatory archiving—the activist-archivist mentors collaborative evidence- and memory-making

activity

1. By counting off, each student is assigned a paradigm to research.
2. Look over the section, then discuss with your group:
   • What time period does this cover?
   • What theories are mentioned?
   • What are the key concepts?
   • What questions do you have?

activity, cont.

3. Rearrange so each group has one person representing each paradigm.
4. Give a brief summary of your paradigm. What is the narrative?
5. Report back to the class.

Principles

• Respect des fonds =
  • provenance
  • original order

SAA Statement of Principles

https://www2.archivists.org/standards/DACS/statement_of_principles

Activities

• Appraisal
• Acquisition
• Processing
• Description/Arrangement
• Preservation
• Access
• Outreach