Archives in a Changing Climate - Part I & Part II

This book contains the first and second volume papers from the 8^th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 8).  Contributors present articles that propose new solutions and aspirations for a new era in the technology of archives and recordkeeping. Topics cover rethinking the role played by archivists, and reframing recordkeeping practices that focus on the rights of the subjects of the records.  This text appeals to students, researchers and professionals in the field.

Previously published in: Archival Science: "Special Issue: Archives in a Changing Climate - Part I" and "Archives in a Changing Climate - Part II"

Part I.- Archives in a changing climate: proposing new “solutions” for a new era.- “Handmaidens of history”: speculating on the feminization of archival work.- The shifting significance of child endowment records at the National Archives of Australia.- Khmer Rouge archives: appropriation, reconstruction, neo-colonial exploitation and their implications for the reuse of the records.- Imagine: a living archive of people and place “somewhere beyond custody”.- Part II.-Archives in a changing climate: responding to a diversity of environments.- Messages sent, and received? Changing perspectives and policies on US federal email as record and the limits of archival accountability.- Archival interventions and the language we use.- “Displaced archives”: proposing a research agenda.- Towards protocols for describing racially offensive language in UK public archives.

Viviane Frings-Hessami is a Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the Faculty of Information Technology. She is researching the information access and information preservation needs and preferences of marginalised rural communities with the aim to design a framework for culturally-sensitive and gender-sensitive information dissemination and information preservation.

Viviane has multidisciplinary expertise in archival science, political science, Asian studies and community informatics. She received a PhD in Political Science from Monash University (2000) and an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Kent, UK (1991).  She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Information and Knowledge Management with specialisations in Archives and Recordkeeping and in Library and Information Science from Monash University (2015). Since 2015, she has occupied teaching and research positions in the Faculty of Information Technology, as a Research Fellow on the PROTIC project, a community-informatics project in collaboration with Oxfam in Bangladesh, from September 2017 to March 2020.

Fiorella Foscarini holds a PhD in archival studies from the University of British Columbia. Before joining the Faculty of Information in January 2010, she worked as Senior Archivist for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) for a decade. Previously, she was Head of the Records Management Office and Intermediate Archives (Ufficio Protocollo e Archivio Generale) with the Province of Bologna (Italy). From 2014 to 2016, she taught archival studies in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands).