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Meeting 5 2021 (4 August)

Meeting 5 for 2021 was held on 4 August 2021, 2pm AEST, chaired by Rachel.

We read Dani Stuchel, 2020, Material Provocations in the Archives, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, Vol 3 No 1
https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v3i1.103

We discussed:
  • Decay as part of archives
  • The challenges this article presents to traditional conservation practice
  • Inevitable but productive decay - and the comforts of decay
  • Decay, despair and obsolescence with digital technology
  • What would curating decay look like?
  • The work of arresting decay currently part of archives work - a potential change to archivists' roles and relationship to archival material
  • What would incorporating these ideas into (eg) archival description look like?

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