Community Archives in Australia: A Preliminary Investigation

Gibbons, Leisa

doi:10.1080/24750158.2020.1831900

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“…5 Moreover, ICAs provide a space that gives voice to marginalised communities who are often excluded, silenced, othered and subjugated in colonial accounts. 6 In this regard, ICAs contest assumptions deemed as truths; challenge the 'hegemony of the nation-state's imagined past and futures; and invoke a multiethnic cacophony of voices that requires reconsideration of established knowledge production alike'. 7 Furthermore, community-based archives enable community groups to determine the contents of the repositories as needed and decided upon by their community.…”

Section: Indigenous Community Archivesmentioning

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Realising Indigenous Data Governance: A case study of the Koori Resource and Information Centre Archives

Crumpen

2023

A&M

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This paper presents research findings from a study exploring how Indigenous community archives realise Indigenous Data Governance (ID-GOV). It considers the development of the Koori Resource and Information Centre (KRIC) Archives in Shepparton, Victoria, as a case study. This study aimed to determine whether the KRIC Archiving Project realised a form of ID-GOV. It adopted an Indigenous methodological framework using a combination of data collection methods to generate a range of research data. This study found that the KRIC Archiving Project adapted Western archival frameworks and practices to create an archive of local Indigenous significance and history that was accessed, operated and managed under Indigenous direction. In this way, the Project advanced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination and achieved a momentary emergence of ID-GOV.

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Section: Indigenous Community Archivesmentioning

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Realising Indigenous Data Governance: A case study of the Koori Resource and Information Centre Archives

Crumpen

2023

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“…Community archives, often created in response to the absence of records in public institutions, are managing records not required to be kept through legislation or focussed on public office. This includes over 3000 community museums and 1000 historical societies across Australia (Gibbons 2020), with varying levels of involvement with professional archivists and funding bodies.…”

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Keeping the archives above water: preserving regional heritage in times of accelerated climate change

Wessell,

Thorpe

2023

Arch Sci

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The critical question of how sustainability and resilience can inform archival practice in regional communities is motivated by the experience of flooding in Lismore, Australia, which exposed the vulnerability of local archives to the effects of climate change and the limitations of local infrastructure. Regional historical societies and community organisations serve as a repository for the history of particular communities, preserving records, artefacts and other materials that document the unique stories and experiences of that place. Collections are independently curated and generally run by volunteers but poorly resourced with insufficient space. They are more likely to be subject to extreme weather events that disproportionately impact regional Australia compared to its cities. Regional collections fall outside national strategies for sustainability, digitisation or investment. Without urgent attention to the fate of regional archives, local heritage is under threat, and with it, an understanding of how that history contributes to the national past and the connection to place and community. This paper explores regional archives from the perspective of the local historical records of Lismore, Northern New South Wales, where flooding is a familiar experience that has reached a new intensity in recent years.

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