Join us for the next session of this Community–Coffee–Cultures (CCC) – an informal discussion group among archivists! We meet on the last Tuesday of every other month at 14:00 UTC, for anywhere between 45-60 minutes.
Next Session
- Tuesday, 31 March, 2026. 14:00 UTC [your local time]
Focus: The intersection of natural sciences and archives
In this session, we invite participants to engage in a conversation on the intersection between the natural sciences and archives, drawing on selected readings that explore how scientific practice, records, and archival interpretation intersect.
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Note: This session will be in English. While interpretation into other languages is, unfortunately, not provided, participants can help translate for each other! It’s quite informal.
Community–Coffee–Cultures (CCC) has developed from the reading group which we started in 2020. Our goals for 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 pick themes and issues 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!
Please mark your calendars! In the meantime, do let us know if you have ideas or would like to join to take this forward.
We look forward to seeing you!
CCC Team
2025-
Carol Street, United States
Clíona O’Carroll, Ireland
Venkat Srinivasan, India
Ellen Engseth, United States
2020-2024
Venkat Srinivasan, India
Ellen Engseth, United States
Anne-Flore Laloë, Germany
Previous CCCs
- Sept 2023: Digitization practices, workflows, concerns
- Nov 2023: Appraisal
- Jan 2024: Archival education and training
- Mar 2024: Salaries, parities, and labo(u)r issues
- May 2024: Cataloging, archival description niggles, metadata
- Jul 2024: Ethics in sourcing, access and use of collections
- Sep 2024: Archival erasure
- Jan 2025: Oral history
- Mar 2025: Mentorship and Continuing Education
- May 2025: Volunteers and student labour
- July 2025: AI and archives
- Sept 2025: Archives and human rights
- Nov 2025: Inclusion in archives
Previous Reading Group meetings discussed:
2022
- 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”
2021
- 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.
2020
- 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.
