SUV Reading Group

The ICA-SUV Reading Group, which launched in June 2020, seeks to virtually bring together archivists and record managers from all over the world to discuss once a month a journal article or a news item about recordkeeping. It is intended to be an exchange of ideas, perspectives and opinions in a convivial setting.

Sessions are announced on the ICA-SUV listserv. Please get in touch with Venkat Srinivasan (venkats@ncbs.res.in), Ellen Engseth (eengseth@umn.edu) or Anne-Flore Laloë (anne-flore.laloe@eumetsat.int) if you have suggestions or would like to help by proposing articles or running a session. We are always looking for ways to strengthen or improve the reading group. So, if you have ideas or comments, feel free to reach out to any of us!

Next meeting

We'll discuss a couple of pieces on the Stasi Archives. One, a short article from the New York Times about volunteer efforts. And the second, a 12-page article titled "A legacy of the DDR: The Stasi Records Archive" by Dagmar Hovestädt.

Article links: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429054624-22/legacy-ddr-dagmar-hovest%C3%A4dt?context=ubx&refId=94d34bfa-3ff5-480b-b8ac-68ce052ba2d4 https://drive.proton.me/urls/VMV72KQS84#LCXg70n0t9Lr

Join us:

Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 10 AM CEST - your local time: https://bit.ly/Sep20-localtime

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Passcode: 964226

OR

Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 10:30 AM Central Time US - your local time: https://bit.ly/Sep21-localtime

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We look forward to seeing you!

Previously discussed readings:

• 10 & 11 June 2020: Schwartz, JM, Cook, T, “Archives, records, and power: The making of modern memory”, Archival Science, 2, 1-19, 2002.
• 21 & 22 July 2020: Pell, S, “Radicalizing the Politics of the Archive: An Ethnographic Reading of an Activist Archive”, Archivaria, 80 (November), 33-57, 2015.
• 25 & 26 August 2020: Scottish Council on Archives, “Anthea Seles” [podcast], 2020-06-11.
• 22 & 23 September 2020: Drake, J, “Insurgent citizens: the manufacture of police records in post-Katrina New Orleans and its implications for human rights”, Archival Science, 14, 365-380, 2014, and Weld, K, “No Democracy Without Archives”,  Boston Review, 2020-07-09.
• 28 October 2020: Wiedeman, G, “The Historical Hazards of Finding Aids”, The American Archivist, 82 (2), 381-420, 2019.
• 8 & 9 December 2020: Nora, Pierre. 1989. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire", Representations, 26, 7-24.
• 26 & 27 January 2021: Boadas, Joan. 2019. "Archives: A multifaceted nature," Comma, 1, 71-78.
• 16 & 17 February 2021: This month we will be discussing the global pandemic, and resources to guide us about our materials and our workplaces. One source we'll discuss is the REALM project. 
  For the discussion: 
  - Watch: https://www.oclc.org/realm/resources/video-overview.html
  - Scan: https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/realm/documents/checklist.pdf
  - Read: https://aiha-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/AIHA/resources/Reopening-Guidance-for-Museums-and-Collecting-Institutions_GuidanceDocument.pdf
• 23 & 24 March 2021: Roberto, C., Anderson, K. & Crockett, M. 2021. "Translating the Universal Declaration on Archives: working with archival traditions and languages across the world", Archives & Manuscripts, DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2020.1854095
• 27 & 28 April​, 2021: Henttonen, Pekka. 2017. “Privacy as an archival problem and a solution,” Archival Science, 17(3), 285–303.
• 25 & 26 May, 2021: Edda T. Lwoga, Patrick Ngulube and Christine Stilwell. "Understanding indigenous knowledge: Bridging the knowledge gap through a knowledge creation model for agricultural development"
• 29 & 30 June, 2021: "RiC-O Converter: an example of practical application of the ICA Records in Contexts standard (ICA RiC)” by Florence Clavaud; video presentations from the ICA 2016 Congress in Seoul.
• 20 & 21 July, 2021: Caswell, Michelle. "'The Archive' Is Not an Archives: On Acknowledging the Intellectual Contributions of Archival Studies."
• 24 & 25 August, 2021: Johnes, Martin. “Archives and Historians of Sport.” ​
• 28 & 29 September, 2021: Weatherburn, Jaye & Harvey, Ross. 2016. "Finding and forming the bold and the fearless: the future of LIS education in Australia," The Australian Library Journal, 65:4, 251-261, DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2016.1237946 
• 26 & 27 October, 2021: Gordon-Clark, Matthew & Shurville, Simon. 2010. "To take up arms against a sea of troubles," Archives & Manuscripts, 38(1), pp. 78-93.
• 22 & 23 November, 2021: Anderson, Kimberly, and Jessica Maddox. “Surveying as Unsettlement: The Protocols Alignment Survey at the University of Nevada, Reno.” The American Archivist 84, no. 1 (2021): 34–61. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-84.1.34.
• 14 December, 2021: Bolger, Eamonn. "How do we get it right? Some thoughts on appraisal in New Zealand and what it means for us as archivists, records managers, researchers and other stakeholders", Archifacts, 2009-2010, pp. pp. 9-25, https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE14566887.
• 25 & 26 January, 2022: Archbishop Desmond Tutu's keynote delivered to the International Conference of the Round Table on Archives in Cape Town, South Africa in 2003. Please also see the obituary released by ICA Section on Archives and Human Rights.
• 22 & 23 February, 2022: Lu, Yi. “Exploring the Secrecy of Garbage Papers,” and Hessler, Peter “Tales of the Trash: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt” (available here).
• 26 & 27 April, 2022: Gustafsson, K. 2021. “Memory politics and archives in Sino-Japanese relations”. In Archives and Human Rights, edited by Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, Antonio González Quintana.
• 24 & 25 May, 2022: Eisen, E. 2021. 2022. “The Kept and the Killed” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-kept-and-the-killed?src=longreads
• 21 & 22 June, 2022: Cheung, Eric. 2020. "Control, Alter, Delete" https://restofworld.org/2020/control-alter-delete/