Archival Education Research Articles

Archival education in the age of social media in Algeria: opportunities and future horizons

Digital technology is changing the way we learn, interact, work and entertain, for its unlimited potential in penetrating all spheres of life. The digital revolution is transforming education industry worldwide. In recent years, extensive debate and research are exploring digital technology, focusing on developing a clear understanding of its capabilities as a platform for making social sciences and humanities applicable to the cyber environment of the twenty first century. The widespread use of social media supported by a rapid growth of the digital culture is making learning ubiquitous by creating, capturing and sharing knowledge. This is enhancing students’ engagement and learning efficiency. It is also improving the learner-instructor interaction by engaging students in a more meaningful participation in their own education and academic achievement. To accomplish this, both students and instructors need to have the skills and expertise in capturing the positive effect of the digital technology and engaging in the new learning environment. This paper reflects on the new learning environment supported by a curriculum reflecting the digital technology era. It discusses how students at the department of archives at the University of Constantine 2 build on the digital capabilities of social media to engage in independent learning by creating and sharing knowledge.

Traveling through: exploring doctoral demographics in archival studies

The growth of archival studies programs has prompted archival scholars to establish an international network for supporting collaborative research, curriculum development, and pedagogy. Doctoral education is key to the sustainability of such programs and the continuation of the network over time. We carried out longitudinal research to survey the population of doctoral students attending one or more Archival Education and Research Institutes (AERI), an annual meeting first held in 2009. Building on prior research on graduate archival education, we gathered demographic and qualitative data about doctoral students specializing in archival studies who are based in several countries including the USA. We sought to assess attendee motivations, guide conference planning, and help advance overall AERI objectives. Our study provides a baseline understanding of the disciplinary backgrounds, research directions, and specific professional development activities that doctoral students in archival studies pursued around the globe from 2013 to 2015. This paper argues that doctoral education should continue to be a particular subject of archival research and indicates how archival students’ range of academic interests is diversifying and strengthening the scholarly community.

Training Development of Archived Materials Based on Local Potentials in the Framework of the Development Program of Students Assisted Social Education Laboratory (Labsosdik) at SMK in Malang

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Archival Studies in Ukraine: Between Tradition and Challenges of Information Era

The article it devoted to analysis of the new trends in the archival education in Ukraine connecting with evolution of society and archives in information era. The author explores the models of archival education in Ukraine in a context of a new archival paradigm. Special attention is given to the activity of the Archival Studies Department at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv which offers a distinctive training program on archival theory, history and methodology as well as on Source Studies and Auxiliary Sciences of History. However, the challenges of a new information era led to the establishment in some centers for records managers’ training. Nowadays educators and archivists recognize the necessity of modernizing archival training programs, bringing them to the contemporary needs and archival practice. The author offers her view on getting balance between History, Memory, and Informational Technologies at the Archival Studies’ curricula.

Archival Staff and Education of Archivists with an Emphasis on Planning and Implementation in the Republic of Serbia

At the time of the technical and technological revolution modern archives are asked to respond to a number of professiona and specific questions and provide relevant information. Modern technology in the field of communication has brought so much innovation that it becomes an object and a subject of study of archival science in all spheres of its activities (the contents of archival material, external and internal features, types and shapes of substrates, the method of creation, forms of record, languages of letters ...). All of this should be based on scientific methods, because archives are the largest and most complex memory from which man draws a number of insights from vast amounts of information and data. In the Republic of Serbia, there is no completely organized form of education within the regular education. Therefore, regardless of the progress in the sphere of archival education, there are numerous problems with the personnel who need to perform tasks of a scientific nature, which are, by their nature: large, complex, responsible, and therefore vulnerable. Without it, there can be no success. The Republic of Serbia is expected to adopt the law governing archival activities soon, as currently applicable provisions of the Law on Cultural Properties of 1994. The author, who studies the legal protection of archival material, considers that by regulations and subordinate legislation, by systematic and substantive laws should be specifically regulate the field of education, using a number of experiences of prestigious countries in Europe, where the main carriers of the lectures should be featured archivists, and thus scientists. Therefore, we suggest that in the context of full-time study at the faculties of philosophy departments- groups for archivistics is established, and that that is finalized required for postgraduate studies in archival science, as it has been done successfully in the prestigious ALMA MATER Department for Archival and Documentary Studies.

Education in community archives: the KARTA Centre and the General Elżbieta Zawacka Foundation

In general, community archives are grass-roots documentary initiatives built around a broadly defined community, which collect, preserve, describe and provide access to historical sources concerning a previously chosen topic, e.g. local history and traditions, a social movement, a minority, an ethnic group, an event or a person. The phenomenon of community archiving is not new, but only several years ago it started to be described by scholars in Poland.The article describes educational activities performed by two biggest and most influential community archives in Poland: the KARTA Centre Foundation in Warsaw and the General Elżbieta Zawacka Foundation in Toruń. Actions of these archives are shown referring to general understanding of education in historical archives, as well as specific situation of Polish archives, especially their mission to promote historical knowledge and local identity. Also promotional qualities of educational endeavours in archives are stressed.

Surveying Archivists and Their Work toward Advocacy and Management, or “Enterprise Archiving”

ABSTRACT Archivists ensure preservation of and access to permanently valuable records in the course of their everyday work. We present results from a spring 2014 survey that sought to gather data on the work archivists do, competencies required for this work, and archivists' recommendations for graduate curricula in archival studies. Our research questions sought to measure or describe a) the nature of everyday archival work, b) the frequency of specific interactive and materials-based tasks, c) the greatest challenges of the archivist's work, and d) recommendations for further emphasis in graduate archival education. We targeted the survey strategically to professional archivists as well as to graduates of a master's program in information studies and obtained 490 responses. Much of the communication that archivists must do is “enterprise archiving,” which centers around advocating for the value of well-managed archives. Recognizing prior efforts to raise awareness of professional demographics and skills...

A personal reflection on the development of archival education

A personal reflection on the development of archival education

Działalność edukacyjna archiwów w kształceniu archiwistów na Uniwersytecie Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

The article comprises two parts. The first one pays attention to educational function of archives and professional profile of a person, who would conduct such activity, which is an archival educator. It is shown that professional competences of the archival educator were determined in the paper of Archival Education Section of the Society of Polish Archivists, published in 2010, entitled “The model of professional competences of archivists and records managers”, in its part concerning the professional level in promotion, education and archival information. The second part of the article describes training of archivists at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun in the scope of content and skills connected with promotional, cultural and educational activity of archives in the past, the present and the future.

AERI 2016 Student Report

Abstract:The Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) supports research and education in the archival field. This paper describes highlights from the the eighth annual meeting, which was hosted by the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

New Beginnings: Introduction to the Special Issue on AERI 2016

Abstract:On July 8–12, 2016, the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University hosted the eighth Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI). AERI is an annual event that brings together researchers, educators, students, and professionals from North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand to share knowledge, promote collaboration, and mentor new and emerging scholars in the areas of archival research and pedagogy. The conference was attended by ninety-five participants from eight countries, including faculty members, doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, and ten undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the AERI-affiliated Emerging Archival Scholars Program (EASP). The five-day event included sixty-three paper presentations, fifteen posters, seven workshops, two plenaries, and a half-day unconference event.In this introduction, the hosts of the conference and co-editors of this issue, Leisa Gibbons and Karen F. Gracy, provide a brief overview of the conference highlights and introduce the research papers presented here.

Fostering archival scholarship: introduction to the special issue on the Archival Education Research Institute

Fostering archival scholarship: introduction to the special issue on the Archival Education Research Institute

Archival Stewardship: Memory and Reconciliation

Archival Stewardship: Memory and Reconciliation Robert E. Carbonneau26 CP Accepting the request of Dr. Mazzenga to be a participant on “Scholarship, Digitization, Collaboration: Future Directions in Catholic Archives and Research” at the January 2017 American Catholic Historical Association in Denver, Colorado prompted me to move beyond my historical comfort zone. I have opted to reflect on archival stewardship as it applies to memory and reconciliation. I believe this topic is an important perspective faced by numerous archives of male and female religious congregations in the United States. Membership, structural and economic resources are so much different than they were one hundred years ago. Increasingly, this has had a direct impact on religious archival education and research. Thus, I would suggest that without implementing a plan of proper archival stewardship, religious congregations face death of memory, an inability to reconcile and heal the historical past and [even less prospect] to imagine a future. This aspect is all the more pronounced when the issue is framed from an international perspective. Effective response requires naming immediate challenges while risking open-ended opportunities. Allow me to reflect on my own experience to illustrate this. Passionist vowed membership has continued to decline in the United States. In January 2017, the eastern province numbered 104 vowed members. Even so, ongoing organizational concerns of stewardship resulted in practical questions being asked on all ministerial fronts. I was challenged: How could I as the historian and archivist help develop a strategy to effectively balance, understand, and preserve the heritage, culture, and diverse memory of these Passionist priests, brothers, and laity affiliated with our mission? Surprise: Creativity, Opportunity, and Cooperation Amidst Archival Restructuring Unquestionable has been the longstanding and continuing support being given me as Passionist historian by my own province leadership [End Page 11] of St. Paul of the Cross Province. In this spirit, I hope the opportunity to chronicle the following events offers all of us archivists and historians a chance to stand on common ground as we seek to be responsible archival stewards. First, the closing of the St. Michael’s Residence and Passionist development offices in Union City, New Jersey in 2012 prompted a reconfiguration the Passionist Historical Archives. A positive step in proper stewardship was taken when an agreement was reached to move the majority of the collection and establish a contractual relationship with Special Collections at the Weinberg Memorial Library of the University of Scranton. Legal and personnel records were sent on to the new Province Pastoral Center in Rye Brook, New York.27 But surprises can emerge: at this same time of archival restructuring, our province leadership and Special Collections at University of Scranton agreed in 2012 to partner with the Ricci Institute of Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco. Suddenly I was re-assigned to San Francisco in order to digitize the entire Passionist China Collection of some 60,000 documents and 10,000 photos, as well as Sign magazine (1921 to 1982). Completed in 2015, these materials encourage scholarly inquiry.28 Digitization of the Passionist China Collection has led me into new and unexpected stewardship opportunities and challenges that that might parallel archival situations faced by other religious congregations. Most important is that digitization can bring dead memory to life. Having concentrated on the study of manuscript archives rather than photographs, the chance to identify the metadata of the 10,000 photos reinvented my sense of historical inquiry and narrative. During this digitization process, China ceased to be a failed or dead missionary endeavor from the 1950s. Since that era, imprisonment and expulsion of American missionaries had become the dominant symbol and narrative. While historically true in one sense, my daily visual interaction to identify photos and documents led me to confidently conclude how their missionary zeal is a foundation crucial to the expression of twenty-first century Chinese Catholicism. 29 [End Page 12] Passionist missionaries, Sisters of Charity of Convent Station, New Jersey, and the Sisters of St. Joseph from Baden, Pennsylvania who had ministered in West Hunan, and China, with Chinese Catholics came to life. Simply put, rather than a dead memory, digitization of China mission archives represented a living memory. Undertaking Risks...

Archives in Libraries: What Librarians and Archivists Need to Know to Work Together. By Jeannette A. Bastian, Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, and Donna Webber. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2015. Pp. v+137. $69.95 (paper). ISBN 1-931666-87-3.

<i>Archives in Libraries: What Librarians and Archivists Need to Know to Work Together</i>. By Jeannette A. Bastian, Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, and Donna Webber. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2015. Pp. v+137. $69.95 (paper). ISBN 1-931666-87-3.

Knowledge discovery from within

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a research project that analyzed records management (RM) and electronic records management (ERM) course syllabi from North American archival studies’ programs. By identifying the convergences and divergences of the topics and literature found within the syllabi, the authors sought to understand the relationship between the two courses and gain insight about how these courses continue to serve as an integral component of archival studies education. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a qualitative analysis of 23 RM and 12 ERM course syllabi from 26 academic institutions from North America. The research examined three different aspects of the syllabi: textbooks, required articles and weekly topics. The syllabi were analyzed as separate data sets (RM syllabi and ERM syllabi), which was followed by a comparative analysis of the two types of syllabi. Findings The findings of this study reveal that RM, ERM and (to a lesser extent) DA (digital archives) knowledge as represented in archival education converges in some course contents but diverges in others. Archival educators should pay close attention to overlapping areas so that the courses can better complement each other and advance knowledge representation within archival studies. Research limitations/implications This study only considered graduate-level programs in the USA and Canada. The study did not include syllabi or instructional guides from associate-level programs or professional organizations such as the International Certification of Records Managers or Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) International. Practical implications The results of this study lead the authors to present two different approaches for how RM and ERM knowledge may be incorporated into archival curriculum. Originality/value This is the first research project to analyze RM and ERM syllabi with regards to the enhancement of records and information management education and archival curriculum development.

Erratum: Foster, J.A., Horowitz, S.M., &amp; Allen, L. (2016). Changing the Subject: Archives, Technology, and Radical Counter-Narratives of Peace. Radical Teacher, 105, 11-22. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/rt.2016.280.

An article in Radical Teacher 105: Archives and Radical Education included an incorrect version of Changing the Subject: Archives, Technology, and Radical Counter-Narratives of Peace by J. Ashley Foster, Sarah M. Horowitz, and Laurie Allen. The placement of two images was incorrect. A corrected version is included here. The editorial team apologizes for this error.

Migrating memories: transdisciplinary pedagogical approaches to teaching about diasporic memory, identity and human rights in archival studies

Despite a growing focus on human rights issues within the field of archival studies, education designed to prepare students to be practicing archivists, scholars and educators has rarely considered how best to address these considerations as they relate to the tens of millions of individuals and communities who have experienced or who are descendants of forced diaspora. This paper reflects on the genesis, development, implementation and emergent themes of an experimental transdisciplinary course, Migrating Memories: Diaspora, Archives and Human Rights, designed to address this educational gap in archival education. In addition to relevant scholarly work, the course integrated fiction, creative non-fiction and film in order to exercise issues of memory, documentation and archiving relating to forced diaspora. This enabled the subject to be approached in the spirit of research in contemporary cultural anthropology as well as archival studies that is addressing the human dimensions and dynamics of memory and identity, in particular those that are cultural, affective and generational.

Building the Scholarly Base of a Field: Reflections on 8 Years of the Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI)

Abstract The Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI) was begun in 2008 to stimulate the growth of a new generation of academics in archival education who are versed in contemporary issues and knowledgeable about their colleagues’ work. The initiative nurtures and promotes state-of-the-art scholarship in archival science broadly conceived, and encourages curricular and pedagogical innovation in archival education. This paper reflects on its genesis and activities over the past eight years and points to its future.

AERI as a Catalyst for Archival Doctoral Education

Abstract The Archival Education &amp; Research Institutes (AERI) have created a generation of scholars more engaged with research in archives and information than ever before. AERI has fostered international collaborations and collegiality among emerging and established scholars of archival studies since 2009. Members of the community have been successful and have shared in the success of others, and this interconnectivity has raised the caliber and expanded the impact of archival scholarship. This essay, drawing on the author’s experiences, discusses how three components of the AERI program have catalyzed doctoral education in archival studies: scholarship, community, and pedagogy.

Encyclopedia of archival science

Here is the first-ever comprehensive guide to archival concepts, principles, and practices. Encyclopedia of Archival Science features 154 entries, which address every aspect of archival professional knowledge. These entries range from traditional ideas (like appraisal and provenance) to today's challenges (digitization and digital preservation). They present the thoughts of leading luminaries like Ernst Posner, Margaret Cross-Norton, and Philip Brooks as well as those of contemporary authors and rising scholars. Historical and ethical components of practice are infused throughout the work. Edited by Luciana Duranti from the University of British Columbia and Patricia C. Franks from San Jose State University, this landmark work was overseen by an editorial board comprised of leading archivists and archival educators from every continent: Adrian Cunningham (Queensland State Archives, Australia), Fiorella Foscarini (University of Toronto and University of Amsterdam), Pat Galloway (University of Texas at Austin), Shadrack Katuu (International Atomic Energy Agency), Giovanni Michetti (University of Rome La Sapienza), Ken Thibodeau (National Archives and Records Administration, US), and Geoffrey Yeo (University College London, UK).