Critical Archives Reading Group

 Meeting 2 of 2025 will be held on Wednesday 28 May at 1pm AEST. We will be reading Tom Nesmith, "The cloud, the public square, and digital public archival infrastructure",  Archival Science , Vol 23, 2023,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-023-09417-7 If you need a copy of the article, please  send us an email  and we will send it to you.  Please RSVP by registering here: here:  https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/AG5qOklmTEO1tyQkSHKHyQ Looking forward to the discussion on Wednesday!

Meeting 2 of 2025 was held on Wednesday 28 May at 1pm AEST. We read Tom Nesmith, "The cloud, the public square, and digital public archival infrastructure", Archival Science , Vol 23, 2023,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-023-09417-7 If you need a copy of the article, please send us an email and we will send it to you.  Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/AG5qOklmTEO1tyQkSHKHyQ Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .  

Happy New Year to all! Meeting 1 of 2025 will be held on 19 March, at 1pm AEDT. We will be reading: Jillian Cuella, Audra Eagle Yun, Jennifer Meehan and Jessica Tai, "Defining Archival Debt: Building New Futures for Archives", Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies , Vol 10 2023, Article 8, available at  https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol10/iss1/8 . and June Chow, Jennifer Douglas and Rebecka Sheffield, "Paying Our Archival Debt: Envisioning New Relationships for Sustainable Community Archiving", 2024, available at  https://archivists.ca/Blog/13410913 Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/vsqLYXUOQoGQVGJDW-Mxcw Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .

Meeting 5 of 2024 will be held on 27 November, at 1pm AEDT. We will be reading Owen C. King, "Archival meta-metadata: revision history and positionality of finding aids", Archival Science , vol 24, pp 509-529, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-024-09443-z  (on open access). Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkd-igqjMiHNLrIYkYTch9j9_jvyPviVuf Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .

Meeting 4 of 2024 will be held on 25 September 1pm AEST. We will be reading Eira Tansey,  A Green New Deal for Archives , Council on Library & Information Resources, 2023,  https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/a-green-new-deal-for-archives/ Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctcOCqrzIvHtfgagkPCocMQDPjzFScY8fe Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're interested in reading and discussing at future meetings. If you're super keen, you can add your suggestions to our Zotero library . If you would like more information, send us an email .

Meeting 3 of 2024 will be held on Friday 16 August, at 1pm AEST. We will be reading Ana Ndumu, Diana E. Marsh, Victoria Van-Hyning and Sydney Triola (2022), "Panopticism and Complicity: The State of Surveillance and Everyday Oppression in Libraries, Archives and Museums", in Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies  Vol 4 No 1:  https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/166  A supplementary reading for the discussion is: SAA Native American Archives Section and Human Rights Archives Section, "Towards Inclusive Reading Rooms: Recommendations for Decolonizing Practices and Welcoming Indigenous Researchers",  https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=690860&article_id=3861876&view=articleBrowser We will be joined by author Diana Marsh for the discussion. Please RSVP by registering here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlcuCtqzorGd1bOzCWddCv4bQITI1YEa59 Also, please come with your ideas for articles you're inte...

Just a reminder that the next meeting of the critical archives reading group will be held on Wednesday 10 April, at 1pm AEST. We will be reading Jordana Silverstein, "Files, Families and the Nation: An Archival History, Perhaps",  Journal of Australian Studies  Vol 47 Issue 4, 2023,  https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2023.2240344 We will be joined by author Jordana Silverstein for the discussion. Please RSVP by registering here:  https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsc-mhqDkrGdNaoBUl-Vk7OL9fvU3hcyzT