(Title changed in the suspicion that people misunderstand the use here of 'Archives')
Almost thirty years an archivist, and counting: the India Office Records, 1973-1979, and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, to date. Plus extensive experience doing my own historical research in other archives.
Some favourite archives and resources
My own publications on archives
Descriptive and empirical, rather than theoretical...
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How to email an archivist
Advice intended for the family historian, but of wider application to those seeking assistance from archivists
Archival Research Skills and Techniques:
a very useful introductory site for those embarking on archival research
Archives Made Easy: an on-line guide to archives around the globe
An excellent idea: 'providing transparency of the costs and processes involved in an archive visit - the kind of information researchers need to know beforehand in order to avoid costly mistakes and delays'. However, coverage is still a bit thin and spotty, and tends to be geared very much towards politics, international relations, economics etc (since it's based at LSE).
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Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)
The Endangered Archives Programme:
'Unless action is taken now, much of mankind’s documentary heritage may vanish - discarded as no longer of relevance or left to deteriorate beyond recovery.'
Investigating the Archive
'This project is designed to examine the role and nature of archives and the debates surrounding their selection, application and interpretation. These debates emphasise the centrality of the archive to life and culture. The project provides space to reflect on archives by taking an interdisciplinary approach to their construction, mobilisation and deployment.'
International Council on Archives
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The Document Academy: DOCAM ’08
March 28-29, 2008, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Investigating the Archive: The Philosophy of the Archive
10th - 11th April 2008, Caledonian Hilton Hotel, Edinburgh
16th ICA Congress in Kuala Lumpur
21- 27 July 2008
I-CHORA: International Conference on the History of Records and Archives
4th Conference, Perth, Australia, 3-5 Aug 2008
Indigenous and community recordkeeping and archives
Archives - discovery and exploration
The Australian Society of Archivists annual conference 7-9 August 2008
Investigating the Archive: Visual Culture and the Archive of Migration - further details TBA
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Future of the Archive in the Digital Age
Dead Media Project:
a virtual archive/museum of obsolete methods of recording, storing and
disseminating information, from chips on bone to superceded computer chips.
The Internet Archive
'a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.... free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public'
UK Web Archiving Consortium:
'a consortium of six leading UK institutions is working collaboratively on a project to develop a test-bed for selective archiving of UK websites.'
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Last Updated March 16, 2008 by Lesley Hall