When considering the power of the archive, the term ‘power’ can have numerous meanings: political power; the power to change or affect a situation; emotive or affective power; or even potential, unrealised power. On the latter, there may be a document (or documents) in an archive with the potential to bring down a government. If this hasn’t happened yet, does that record have power?
This afternoon I spent two and a half hours in one of those wonderfully rambling meetings that sometimes happen in research centres, meetings which – even if convened with specific intentions – wander off to cover a whole range of… Continue Reading →
On Thursday 23 July I attended New directions in making history at the State Library of Victoria, part of the Making public histories seminar series. After the presentations the discussion was opened up to the floor. The first contribution (which was taken… Continue Reading →
Today the news is filled with stories about the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (2014) and the Government’s reaction to its findings. Of the 800 or so children currently in mandatory closed… Continue Reading →
I spent most of today in a large meeting room, running a workshop for a few members of a large government department. We were talking about how to get control of your records, resources, documents, files – or, to use… Continue Reading →
After several years of vacillating, last week I finally joined the Australian Society of Archivists as an Associate member. The decision not to apply for Professional Membership immediately was partly financial and partly because I see Associate Membership as a… Continue Reading →
When many people think of archival records, they think of paper – paper in files and filing cabinets, files in boxes, loose pages in drawers, bound ledgers and registers, printed photographs. But many archivists think about records more broadly. For… Continue Reading →
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