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In less than a decade, most people won’t be able to play a VHS tape anymore. Let’s farewell the humble tape, and celebrate the archives finding their way to digitisation and YouTube.
How can archivists properly preserve computer programs often written specifically to destroy data?
With Freedom on the Move, historians hope to reveal patterns of escape and capture, while giving anyone the chance to learn about the individual heroism of runaway slaves.
Libraries and archives have dealt with threats for centuries, but the growth of digital networks has created new hazards.
One historian is plumbing the oft-discarded works of kids – from shipwreck tales to diary entries – to augment our understanding of U.S. history.
In the 1950s, Woody Guthrie lived in one of Fred Trump’s buildings. In newly discovered, never before published writings, Guthrie bitterly rails against the developer’s color line.
Two decades ago, MI5’s archives were surrounded by secrecy like that of the royal archives. There’s a reason this has changed.
Transgender is a relatively new word. So when an academic seeks to create a transgender historical archive, complications abound.
The State Library of Victoria has received the greatest single bequest of rare books in its history, coupled with an endowment for the collection’s preservation. No wonder book scholars are smiling.
Australians might now prefer to send emails over private letters but let’s not overlook the letter’s unique, tactile role, particularly in its most intimate expressions.
From the Domesday Book to modern government papers, the National Archives’ collection of more than 11m historical government and public records is one of the world’s largest. It includes paper and parchment…
It goes without saying these are difficult times for the country’s museums and archives. In recent months, the National Library, War Memorial, Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, and others, have all flagged…
Last month a major restructure at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) in Canberra was announced, including a tranche of job cuts and the closure of the Arc cinema. Many in the film community were…
Earlier this week, as you may have read, the University of Melbourne announced it had acquired the archives of a former student, feminist scholar and writer Germaine Greer. The total cost of the archive…
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Assistant Curator for History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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Lecturer in Data & Society, The University of Edinburgh
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Assistant Archivist, Germaine Greer Archive, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History, University of Waterloo
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Ph.D. Student in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Curator of Scientific Collections, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
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Digital Archiving Specialist, The National Archives
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool
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Adjunct Fellow, Western Sydney University
