Community archives: the shaping of memory

by Alexander, Ben, (Ben F.) Bastian, Jeannette A.

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Full title :Community archives : the shaping of memory / [compiled by] Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander.

Summary

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 - building a community archive. Readership: 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Facet
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:xxiv, 286 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781856046398, 1856046397
oclc:ocn432408660
LC Classification:CD971
Dewey Decimal:025.1714

Introduction : communities and archives, a symbiotic relationship / Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander -- A community archives model. 'It is noh mistri, wi mekin histri' : telling our own story : independent and community archives in the UK, challenging and subverting the mainstream / Andrew Flinn and Mary Stevens ; Special, local and about us : the development of community archives in Britain / David Mander -- Communities and non-traditional record keeping. The Single Noongar Claim : native title, archival records and aboriginal community in western Australia / Glen Kelly ; Oral tradition in living cultures : the role of archives in the preservation of memory / Patricia Galloway ; We are our memories : community and records in Fiji / Setareki Tale and Opeta Alefaio -- Records loss, destruction and recovery. Archiving the queer and queering the archives : a case study of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) / Marcel Barriault ; A living archive, shared by communities of records / Eric Ketelaar ; Truth commissions and the construction of collective memory : the Chile experience / Joel A. Blanco-Rivera -- Online communities : how technology brings communities and their r…

Subjects

Archives -- Aspect social Archives -- Collection management Archives -- Gestion des collections Archives -- Social aspects Archives and archiving Archives and archiving - Manuscripts an… Collective memory Gemeindearchiv Mémoire collective Municipal archives Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41…