Archival Narratives For Canada

Author : Kathleen E. Garay,Christl Verduyn
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Archives
ISBN : 1552664465

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Archival Narratives for Canada by Kathleen E. Garay,Christl Verduyn Pdf

Every nation has stories that help to define the country and its people. Focusing on widely varied written sources, Archival Narratives for Canada is an examination of the stories that have defined Canada. Professional archivists, scholars and other researchers working with archives - from the local and regional to national and international - explore the changing landscape of archival resources in Canada and in particular the role of archives in shaping the country's narratives. They examine, among other topics, The politics of archiving, The process of archival documentation, The particular problems of small and regional collections, The role of new technologies and digitization, and new conceptualizations of the archive. This collection also includes a variety of case studies which demonstrate the value of archival research, both traditional and assisted by digital resources and search engines, In reconstructing Canadian texts and authors from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Jamie A. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429594489

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Producing the Archival Body by Jamie A. Lee Pdf

Producing the Archival Body draws on theoretical and practical research conducted within US and Canadian archives, along with critical and cultural theory, to examine the everyday lived experiences of archivists and records creators that are often overlooked during archival and media production. Expanding on the author’s previous work, which engaged archival and queer theories to develop the Queer/ed Archival Methodology that intervenes in traditional archival practices, the book invites readers interested in humanistic inquiry to re-consider how archives are defined, understood, deployed, and accessed to produce subjects. Arguing that archives and bodies are mutually constitutive and developing a keen focus on the body and embodiment alongside archival theory, the author introduces new understandings of archival bodies. Contributing to recent disciplinary moves that offer a more transdisciplinary emphasis, Lee interrogates how power circulates and is deployed in archival contexts in order to build critical understandings of how deeply archives influence and shape the production of knowledges and human subjectivities. Producing the Archival Body will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of archival studies, library and information science, gender and women’s studies, anthropology, history, digital humanities, and media studies. It should also be of great interest to practitioners working in and with archives

Author : Sheila Curran Bernard,Kenn Rabin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136060854

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Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music by Sheila Curran Bernard,Kenn Rabin Pdf

Archival Storytelling is an essential, pragmatic guide to one of the most challenging issues facing filmmakers today: the use of images and music that belong to someone else. Where do producers go for affordable stills and footage? How do filmmakers evaluate the historical value of archival materials? What do vérité producers need to know when documenting a world filled with rights-protected images and sounds? How do filmmakers protect their own creative efforts from infringement? Filled with advice and insight from filmmakers, archivists, film researchers, music supervisors, intellectual property experts, insurance executives and others, Archival Storytelling defines key terms-copyright, fair use, public domain, orphan works and more-and challenges filmmakers to become not only archival users but also archival and copyright activists, ensuring their ongoing ability as creators to draw on the cultural materials that surround them. Features conversations with industry leaders including Patricia Aufderheide, Hubert Best, Peter Jaszi, Jan Krawitz, Lawrence Lessig, Stanley Nelson, Rick Prelinger, Geoffrey C. Ward and many others.

Author : Rebecka Taves Sheffield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1634000919

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Documenting Rebellions by Rebecka Taves Sheffield Pdf

Documenting Rebellions is a study of four archives that were constituted with a common desire to preserve the memory and evidence of lesbian and gay people. They are The Lesbian Herstory Archives (New York), The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (Los Angeles), the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives (West Hollywood), and the ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives (Toronto). Using a narrative approach that draws from first-person accounts and archival research, each chapter tells a story about how these organizations came to exist, who has supported them over time, and how they have survived for more than forty years. This book is the result of a five-year project that began in 2012 and builds on the author's own experience working with lesbian and gay archives. In Documenting Rebellions, Sheffield places lesbian and gay archives in the context of changing political opportunity structures that have afforded a liberal lesbian and gay rights movement some successes while continuing to marginalize intersectional, queer and trans people. The goal of this study is not to critique these organizations, but to show how this cohort of community archives has been affected by the very same combination of socio-political and economic factors that shape the cultural histories that they preserve. Documenting Rebellions consider the material needs of archives - space, money, and expertise - that are sometimes rendered invisible by the idiosyncratically subjective cultural theory model of 'the archive' that has emerged from within interdisciplinary studies. By tracing the emergence and development of these organizations, Sheffield uncovers representational politics, institutional pluralism, generational divides, shifting national politics, interpersonal relationships, and challenges with sustainability, both financial and otherwise. Rebecka Taves Sheffield is an archivist and archival educator based in Hamilton, Ontario. She has taught in graduate programs at Simmons University School of Library and Information Science, for the University of Toronto iSchool, and for Library Juice Academy. Presently, she is a senior policy advisor for the Archives of Ontario and works on digital recordkeeping strategies. Rebecka previously served as the Executive Director for the ArQuives (formerly the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives), where she spent the better part of a decade learning as much as possible about Canada's LGBTQ2+ histories. She has studied sociology, gender studies, publishing, and archives. She completed a PhD in information studies and sexual diversity studies at the University of Toronto.

Author : Linda M. Morra,Jessica Schagerl
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554584307

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Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace by Linda M. Morra,Jessica Schagerl Pdf

Women’s letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and relegated to basements, attics, closets, and, increasingly, cyberspace rather than public institutions. This collection showcases the range of critical debates that animate thinking about women’s archives in Canada. The essays in Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace consider a series of central questions: What are the challenges that affect archival work about women in Canada today? What are some of the ethical dilemmas that arise over the course of archival research? How do researchers read and make sense of the materials available to them? How does one approach the shifting, unstable forms of new technologies? What principles inform the decisions not only to research the lives of women but to create archival deposits? The contributors focus on how a supple research process might allow for greater engagement with unique archival forms and critical absences in narratives of past and present. From questions of acquisition, deposition, and preservation to challenges related to the interpretation of material, the contributors track at various stages how fonds are created (or sidestepped) in response to national and other imperatives and to feminist commitments; how archival material is organized, restricted, accessed, and interpreted; how alternative and immediate archives might be conceived and approached; and how exchanges might be read when there are peculiar lacunae—missing or fragmented documents, or gaps in communication—that then require imaginative leaps on the part of the researcher.

Author : Marlene Kadar
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889208711

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Working in Women’s Archives by Marlene Kadar Pdf

What comes to mind when we hear that a friend or colleague is studying unpublished documents in a celebrated author’s archive? We might assume that they are reading factual documents or, at the very least, straightforward accounts of the truth about someone or some event. But are they? Working in Women’s Archives is a collection of essays that poses this question and offers a variety of answers. Any assumption readers may have about the archive as a neutral library space or about the archival document as a simple and pure text is challenged. In essays discussing celebrated Canadian authors such as Marian Engel and L.M. Montgomery, as well as lesser-known writers such as Constance Kerr Sissons and Marie Rose Smith, Working in Women’s Archives persuades us that our research methods must be revised and refined in order to create a scholarly place for a greater variety of archival subjects and to accurately represent them in current feminist and poststructuralist theories.

Author : Public Archives Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Archives
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027831333

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Report Concerning Canadian Archives by Public Archives Canada Pdf

Author : Antoinette Burton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822387046

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Archive Stories by Antoinette Burton Pdf

Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates a vital conversation about how archives around the world are constructed, policed, manipulated, and experienced. It challenges the claims to objectivity associated with the traditional archive by telling stories that illuminate its power to shape the narratives that are “found” there. Archive Stories brings together ethnographies of the archival world, most of which are written by historians. Some contributors recount their own experiences. One offers a moving reflection on how the relative wealth and prestige of Western researchers can gain them entry to collections such as Uzbekistan’s newly formed Central State Archive, which severely limits the access of Uzbek researchers. Others explore the genealogies of specific archives, from one of the most influential archival institutions in the modern West, the Archives nationales in Paris, to the significant archives of the Bakunin family in Russia, which were saved largely through the efforts of one family member. Still others explore the impact of current events on the analysis of particular archives. A contributor tells of researching the 1976 Soweto riots in the politically charged atmosphere of the early 1990s, just as apartheid in South Africa was coming to an end. A number of the essays question what counts as an archive—and what counts as history—as they consider oral histories, cyberspace, fiction, and plans for streets and buildings that were never built, for histories that never materialized. Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Marilyn Booth, Antoinette Burton, Ann Curthoys, Peter Fritzsche, Durba Ghosh, Laura Mayhall, Jennifer S. Milligan, Kathryn J. Oberdeck, Adele Perry, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, John Randolph, Craig Robertson, Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Jeff Sahadeo, Reneé Sentilles

Author : Mary Kandiuk
Publisher : Library Juice Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1634000625

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Archives and Special Collections As Sites of Contestation by Mary Kandiuk Pdf

This collection of essays interrogates library practices relating to archives and special collections.

Author : Linda M. Morra,Jessica Schagerl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1554588871

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Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace by Linda M. Morra,Jessica Schagerl Pdf

Women's letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and relegated to basements, attics, closets, and, increasingly, cyberspace rather than public institutions. This collection showcases the range of critical debates that animate thinking about women's archives in Canada. The essays in Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace consider a series of central questions: What are the challenges that affect archival work about women in Canada today? What are some of the ethical dilemmas that arise over the course of archival research? How do researchers read and make sense of the materials available to them? How does one approach the shifting, unstable forms of new technologies? What principles inform the decisions not only to research the lives of women but to create archival deposits? The contributors focus on how a supple research process might allow for greater engagement with unique archival forms and critical absences in narratives of past and present. From questions of acquisition, deposition, and preservation to challenges related to the interpretation of material, the contributors track at various stages how fonds are created (or sidestepped) in response to national and other imperatives and to feminist commitments; how archival material is organized, restricted, accessed, and interpreted; how alternative and immediate archives might be conceived and approached; and how exchanges might be read when there are peculiar lacunaemissing or fragmented documents, or gaps in communicationthat then require imaginative leaps on the part of the researcher.

Author : Tom Nesmith,Society of American Archivists,Association of Canadian Archivists
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015029278440

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Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance by Tom Nesmith,Society of American Archivists,Association of Canadian Archivists Pdf

The best archival thinking and debate in Canada are reflected in this careful selection of previously published essays.

Author : Public Archives of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Archives
ISBN : OXFORD:400720214

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Report on Canadian Archives by Public Archives of Canada Pdf

Author : Stacey Barker,Krista Cooke,Molly McCullough
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776629216

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Material Traces of War by Stacey Barker,Krista Cooke,Molly McCullough Pdf

This volume looks at Canadian women’s experiences of, and contributions to, the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book tells the stories of women who worked as civilians, served in the military, volunteered their time, and grieved lost loved ones, through thematically organized vignettes. The authors place these personal narratives of individual woman, and their related material culture, in the wider context of the world wars while demonstrating that the experience of living through global conflict was as individual as a woman’s particular circumstances. Drawing from the collections of the Canadian War Museum, the Canadian Museum of History, and other public and private collections in Canada, Material Traces of War brings largely unknown material culture collections to public view and draws attention to the untold stories of women and war.

Author : Alexander Fraser
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547160816

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The Ontario Archives: Scope of its Operations by Alexander Fraser Pdf

This act provides for the government of Ontario a lieutenant-governor, who represents the Crown; an executive council of ministers of state and a legislature composed of duly elected representatives of the people. To this body the act secures exclusive legislative powers in Ontario and Quebec, in the matter of Crown lands, forests and mines; education, from the public common school to the university; municipal government, institutions and laws; incorporation of chartered companies—commercial, financial, professional, or social; solemnization of marriage, involving family history, vital statistics, etc.; property and civil rights; administration of justice, embracing both civil and criminal jurisdiction; agriculture and immigration, under which municipal, industrial, and agricultural statistics are collected, tabulated, and published; the founding and maintenance of provincial institutions such as hospitals, asylums, reformatories, prisons, and institutions for the instruction of the deaf and dumb and the blind; offices for the local registration of deeds, titles to land; the licensing of shops, taverns, hotels, auctioneers, etc.; the erection of local public works; the authorization and regulation of transportation not interprovincial.

Author : Public Archives of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:612280616

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Archives Publiques Du Canada by Public Archives of Canada Pdf