SUV Reading Group

The goal of the ICA-SUV Reading Group launched in June 2020 is 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. If you have ideas or comments, feel free to get in touch with Venkat Srinivasan (venkats@ncbs.res.in), Ellen Engseth (eengseth@umn.edu) or Anne-Flore Laloë (anne-flore.laloe@eumetsat.int). Announcements are shared through the ICA-SUV listserv. 

Next meeting

The reading group for 2023-2024 will be an informal discussion group that we are calling Community--Coffee--Cultures (CCC)! We'll meet on the last Tuesday of every other month at 14:00 UTC, for anywhere between 45-60 minutes.

Our goals for Community--Coffee--Cultures (CCC) are to build community, learn from varied cultures of practice around the world, and maybe have coffee (or other beverage of choice). We hope this will also be a way of fostering discussion and who knows, even collaboration. We are picking six broad themes to see how archives in different parts of the world think about these. Discussions are not structured, and they are not restricted to the theme during these meetings!

Join us on September 26, 2023 at 14:00 UTC. Focus: Digitization practices, workflows, concerns.

Check your local time: https://bit.ly/Sep26-2023-localtime

Zoom meeting link:
https://bit.ly/ica-suv-community
Meeting ID: 987 0466 4511
Passcode: 230926

We look forward to seeing you!

Future CCCs:
Tue, Nov 28: Appraisal
Tue, Jan 30: Archival education and training
Tue, Mar 26: Salaries, parities, and labo(u)r issues
Tue, May 28: Cataloging, archival description niggles, metadata
Tue, Jul 30: Ethics in sourcing, access and use of collections

Previous Reading Group meetings discussed:

• 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/
• 20 & 21 September, 2022: Hovestädt, Dagmar. 2021. "A legacy of the DDR: The Stasi Records Archive"