Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the changing research practices of
historians, and to contrast their experiences of serendipity in physical and digital information …

Over the last 20 years, humanities and archival scholars have theorized the ways in which
archives imbue records with meaning. However, archival scholars have not sufficiently …

Archaeological research projects employ a diverse body of recording strategies to preserve
detailed information about material evidence of the past. One of the most persisting and …

Abstract In 1924, Canadian Dominion Archivist Arthur Doughty (1860–1936) characterized
archives as “the gift of one generation to another.” This essay takes these words seriously. It …

In archives, objects are often both physically and intellectually separated from textual and
visual materials, even when they arrive as part of a larger manuscript or archival collection …

This paper reports on the results of a focus group study to obtain users' opinions on the
content and format of displays in archival information systems. The study addressed two …

While some archivists may question the relevance of the seemingly esoteric discussion of
postmodernism to the practical work of our profession, this article argues for postmodern …

Over the past several decades the archival turn in contemporary art practice has produced a
panoply of visual, performance and literary art works that activate the archives. Artists …

What is the sound of silence and what is the sight of absence? The following essay situates
itself along those two questions by devoting close ethnographic attention to the lives and …

Urgent Archives argues that archivists can and should do more to disrupt white supremacy
and hetero-patriarchy beyond the standard liberal archival solutions of more diverse …