[Personal_archives] Fwd: [cla] Publication Announcement: Housing Memory Conference Proceedings

[Rodney Carter]

The online Faculty of Information Quarterly journal featuring papers from
The Housing Memory Conference (March 2009) is now online here:
http://fiq.ischool.utoronto.ca/index.php/fiq

Among the fascinating papers collected here, the paper by Vivian Wong (UCLA)
may be of particular interest to SISPA members. Here is the abstract:
Making the record from memory: A case for documenting the personal *Vivian
Wong*

Abstract
Conceptions of records have progressed from their institutionalized
beginnings as documents of the affairs of the governments that produced them
to a more progressive and inclusive present. Individuals can make records of
themselves – records that have evidentiary value that document their lives.
These personal records preserve individual histories, memories, and
experiences in the archive that has the potential for anyone and everyone to
be remembered in the record. Archival theory and practice have made strides
toward inclusion and multiculturalism in the late 20th century and into the
new millennium as postmodern thought entered the debate regarding the
archive. While the postmodern perspective underscores the mandate of the
archive to work with neglected and marginalized, as well as traditional
groups, the record keeping and documentation processes are still ones
centered on physical records.
    To challenge the textual proclivity and assumption of fixity in the
notion of records, this paper explores the relationship of memories and
records – a dynamic process where each makes the other and one is the other
in some form. Records make memories and memories make records, while
memories are themselves a kind of record that represents personal identity,
history, and experience. It advocates for other kinds of things to be
regarded as records when documenting, collecting, and preserving the
personal. For certain individuals in the Diaspora, the ability to produce
tangible and textual records of themselves is denied through political,
social, or economic circumstance. Although these groups cannot create
records of themselves, their experiences are nonetheless real. The
understanding of the archive and archival theory and practice should be
broadened to include the past in recorded memory of previously marginalized
groups such that the archive becomes an inclusive representative of all
people and their diverse histories and experiences.

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Date: 2009/6/4
Subject: [cla] Publication Announcement: Housing Memory Conference
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    Hello CLA Community,

We are extremely pleased to announce the third volume of the Faculty of
Information Quarterly: The Housing Memory Conference Proceedings (
http://fiq.ischool.utoronto.ca/index.php/fiq)!

This issue is the collection of articles submitted from presenters of the
Housing Memory conference, held at the Faculty of Information during March,
2009. The event - which brought together students from across North America,
and featured a keynote address from Geoffrey Bowker of Santa Clara
University - was a great success, and the provocative, compelling
presentations given are captured through these proceedings.

The theme of the conference was meant to bring together and showcase the
diversity of work done by graduate students in the Information community.
The theme, “housing memory,” allowed for an exploration of memory and its
manifestations in forms such as archives, libraries, museums, information
systems, texts, and material or digital artefacts. This broad area of
inquiry considered the implications of the institutionalization of memory,
and engaged issues such as policy, practice, politics, history and
technology. These themes - brought together in an exciting, vibrant
conference - are echoed in these fascinating and reflective works.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the journal, please contact
fiquarterly at fis.utoronto.ca.

Sincerely,

Meghan Ecclestone,

Past-Managing Editor

*Faculty of Information Quarterly*

*Table of Contents:*

*Guest Editorial
**Ania Dymarz, Monica Rettig*, Conference Organizers

*Articles*

‘The Sun was Obscured by the Smoke of Books’: Libraries and Memory
Institutions in Conflict Since the End of the Cold War
*Bruce Harpham*

Unity in Diversity: Multiculturalism, Nationalism and the Representation of
History in the Slovak National Museum
*Justin Joque   *

“We’d Lose Our Shirt!”: How Canada’s Cultural Policy Has Shaped the Canadian
Literary Canon
*Rebecka Sheffield       *

 The People’s Papers? A Comparison of the Treatment of Government Leaders’
Records in Canada and the U.S.
*Katharine Dunn*

Subject Headings (Mis)Informing Memory
*Margaret Peachy       *

District Six Museum’s Critical Pedagogy: Making Spaces to Heal Community
Memories
*Laura Gibson*

Into the “Immortal Well”: Uses of Time Capsules in the Present
*Emily Beliveau*

Food Conjures Memory: Making Memory in the Museum
*Zella Llerena*

Naked Memory: The Spencer Tunick Experience in the Museum Space
*Valentine* *Moreno* *     *

Performance as Exhibit: When Edward Curtis met the Kwak-waka’wakw
*Hannah Turner          *

Making the record from memory: A case for documenting the personal
*Vivian Wong  *

Memory and Knowledge in Organizations
*Meghan Ecclestone    *

Patterns of Remembering on Résumés
*Ferhan Tunagur*




-- 
Meghan Ecclestone, B.A. (Hons), MISt (Candidate)
Library & Information Science
Professional Development Co-Chair
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Email: meghan.ecclestone at utoronto.ca

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