Resources
Recommended Readings: Digital Archive
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Cook, Terry (2013). Evidence, Memory, Identity, and Community: Four Shifting Archival Paradigms. Archival Science 13(2-3), 95-120.
Cook explores the history of archiving and the changes that the form has experienced from its origin to the present. The abstract reads, "...archival paradigms over the past 150 years have gone through four phases: from juridical legacy to cultural memory to societal engagement to community archiving."
Bailey, Jefferson. “Disrespect Des Fonds: Rethinking Arrangement and Description in Born-Digital Archives.” Archive Journal, Archive Journal, June 2013, www.archivejournal.net/essays/disrespect-des-fonds-rethinking-arrangement-and-description-in-born-digital-archives/.
Bailey explores the traditional approaches of archival arrangement and description, challenging the technique of respect des fonds as it applies to digital born artifacts.
Theimer argues, "Archival silences are, as probably most of you know, instances in which people or events, are not fully represented, or represented at all, in archival collections or “the archive” writ large." This essay expresses the need for archivists to form collaboration with community members or "citizen archivists" to make sure that work lives on.
Washington and Lee Archive Materials
Projects That Inspire this Site
Race & Racism at the University of Richmond
Black Liberation 1969 Archive at University of Swarthmore