Archives

Archive and Archivist What is an archive? An archive is a large and varied collection of historical documents, records or objects. . It is an extensive record or collection of data. An archive contains objects or documents of a particular type or interest. For example a historical archivist keeps documents of historical value. Any one who is a graduate can become an archivist. Types of archives: Society of American Archivists (SAA) describes the following types of archives- 1. College and University

1. Define archive in your own words. (5 points) An archive is the limited selection of texts, performances and/or time periods that the author is studying and using to support their argument. 2. What is Heidt’s archive? (5 points) Heidt’s archive consists of public foreign policy speeches given by Reagan, Bush, and Clinton during their administration. 3. Define exigence in your own words. (5 points) Exigence is an urgent issue or situation that prompts someone to write about it. 4. What is the

historian than archives? Arlette Farge explains, “This is where our work begins.” However, to many, the vast repositories of records and documents seem dull and lifeless. To the eager historian, the archives are a vast and treacherous ocean and seemingly impossible to wade through. In spite of this, they are seductive to Farge, enticing her to sift through the endless Paris police records of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris. The “allure” is the innate potential of the archives to illuminate

Archives can be made up of letters, records, paintings, photos, artifacts, and others for preservation to understand what occurred during a period in history or the perspective of a person’s life. Many of these archives can be found in museums and libraries around the world for researchers or historians to obtain information about events that occurred in the past. Although, there are still hidden documents that have yet to be discovered. When researchers or historian begin their journey of going

mainly took the use of police and legal records to uncover the unheard voices of everyday people during and after the French Revolution. In this novella The Allure of the Archives written by Arlene Farge Arlette, she explores the archives in the French National Archives, the Library of the Arsenal and the National Library. These archives were taken from eighteen century, France, the missing key and some type of evidence which will later shed some light in her research. Like any great historian Farge captures

areas students were asked to explore in the archive were; its mission, policies and procedures, funding and staffing, holdings, accessibility, online presence, security, and programming and outreach. This paper will cover the archival institution of UC Davis. The person that was interviewed for this assignment is Kevin Miller. Miller is the Interim Head of the Special Collections Department at UC Davis, he is also a University Archivist in the Archives and Institutional Assets Program. This paper

Term Project – Archive Visit The archive I am visiting for this term project is the Local History & Archives of the Hamilton Public Library located on the third floor of the Central Branch at 55 York Boulevard in Hamilton, Ontario. Since 1914, Hamilton Public Library has been collecting and preserving Hamilton 's history. The Local History & Archives collection consists of material such as letters, photographs, manuscripts, diaries and other original records created by Hamilton and area citizens

Digital Archive Analysis: Histories of the National Mall Histories of the National Mall is a digital Public History project backed by the National Endowment for the Humanities, sponsored by George Mason University. and developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. There is a search bar at the top and underneath is a section entitled “discover.” Under this heading there are links to maps, explorations, people and past events. The links are sectioned out into squares with

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be given not only to the assembly and dissemination of unexpurgated copies of these texts but also to material categorization and searchability. One cogent statement by Latham and Scholes reiterates this simple truth: “the usefulness of a digital archive depends heavily on our ability to find things in it” (521). In order to further mitigate the debilitating effect that library cataloguing and anthologization have had on modernist periodical researching techniques, it is necessary to employ a system