{"id":1388,"date":"2022-04-04T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2022-04-26T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T18:21:11","slug":"archival-research-a-best-practices-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/2022\/04\/04\/archival-research-a-best-practices-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Archival Research: A Best Practices Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 1st, Drs. Linda Morra (SFU Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar<\/a>) and Karis Shearer (PRC Digital Arts & Humanities, UBC Okanagan<\/a>) co-organized an event called “Archival Research:\u00a0 A Best Practices Workshop” which featured short presentations by archivists, historians, and literary scholars who shared their perspectives on these ten best practices:<\/p>\n

1. (10:05-10:10)<\/strong>: Locate the archive(s) that might hold the material you are seeking (Paige Hohmann<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

2. (10:10-10:15)<\/strong>: Give yourself time in the archive. (Jessica Stites Mor<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

3. (10:15-10:20)<\/strong>: Contact the archive in advance to make arrangements for your visit. (Dan Keyes<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

4. <\/strong>(10:20-10:25)<\/strong>: Familiarize yourself with how to find the materials you want in the archive. (Sarah Cipes<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

5. (10:25-10:30)<\/strong>: Don\u2019t assume all archives operate in the same way \u2013 check the website for information about advance reader applications, credentials required, etc. (Margaret Reeves<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

6. (10:30-10:35)<\/strong> Don\u2019t assume the catalogue captures or corresponds to the archive contents. (Tim Paulson<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

7. (10:35-10:40)<\/strong> Be kind to the archivists and the collections staff. (Emily Murphy<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

8. <\/strong>(10:40-10:45)<\/strong> Prepare for your tech needs in advance. (Karis Shearer<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

9. (10:45-10:50)<\/strong> Set up an appropriate method for saving\/processing slides and photos. (Emily Murphy)<\/strong><\/p>\n

10. (10:50-10:55<\/strong>) Understand the levels of permissions (Linda Morra<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

\"Karis \"Emily \"Dan \"Jessica \"Linda\"Image<\/p>\n

The workshop was delivered both in-person and streamed live as a webinar via Zoom. We’re very grateful to the SpokenWeb RAs who assisted with the event facilitation: Judith Burr, Megan Butchart, Sarah Cipes, Xiaoxuan Huang, and Yasaman Lotfizadeh. The event recording will appear on the AMP Lab’s YouTube channel later this month.<\/p>\n

\"Megan\"\"<\/p>\n

Speaker Biographies:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarah Cipes<\/strong> graduated with a Master\u2019s degree in Information Science (Archives and Record Management focus) from the University of Toronto in 2021 and holds a BA in English from UBC Okanagan. She is the AMP Lab PRC fellow and a PhD student in the IGS Digital Arts & Humanities theme at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.<\/p>\n

Paige Hohmann<\/strong> is the archivist at UBC Okanagan Library, where she manages its special collections and archives. In this role, she is involved in coordinating the BC Regional Digitized History project (bcrdh.ca), which provides digitization support to community archives. Paige is a collaborator in two research projects concerned with archives and recordkeeping: InterPARES Trust AI, and SpokenWeb.<\/p>\n

Daniel Keyes<\/strong> is an associate professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan. He holds a PhD in English from York University. His research focuses on Whiteness, Anglo-Settler Identity, the Okanagan, and Digital Ephemerality. He teaches cultural studies and English.<\/p>\n

Linda Morra <\/strong>is a Full Professor of English and this year\u2019s Farley Distinguished Visiting Professor at Simon Fraser University. Her research, which is animated by inquiries into the place of women writers in the public sphere, culminated in a monograph,\u00a0Unarrested Archives\u00a0<\/em>(UTP 2014). This book\u00a0was followed by\u00a0Moving Archives,\u00a0<\/em>which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize in 2020 and by\u00a0On the Other Side(s) of 150<\/em>, which won the Canadian Studies Network Prize in 2021. She also prepared an edition of Jane Rule\u2019s memoir,\u00a0Taking My Life<\/em>, shortlisted for the international LAMBDA prize in 2011.<\/p>\n

Emily Murphy<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Critical and Creative Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Emily received her PhD in English Language and Literature from Queen\u2019s University, and holds a Masters in English from University of Alberta. Her research includes digital humanities, 20th-century literature, women\u2019s writing, psychiatric history, actor-network theory, and movement in literature and the digital.<\/p>\n

Tim Paulson<\/strong> is an assistant professor of environmental and economic history at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Paulson\u2019s current research on beef marketing and working rangeland ecosystems in Australia, Canada, Japan, and the United States examines diverse capitalist approaches to nature and their harms. Paulson is a member of the North American support group for the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, which the United Nations has approved for 2026.<\/p>\n

Margaret Reeves <\/strong>is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, and an Associate Member of the Gender and Women\u2019s Studies program. She has conducted research on early modern manuscripts, on early printed books, and on historical papers in a variety of archives, including the Public Record Office in Northhamptonshire, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the Bodleian at Oxford, and the British Library in London, England, as well as several libraries in Toronto: the Osborne Collection of Early Children\u2019s Books, Emmanuel College Library, and the Fisher Rare Book Library. Margaret has also worked in a research library: she is the former Curator of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, a research centre at the University of Toronto housing a non-circulating library of about 20,000 books and about 2,000 rare books (i.e. books published before 1800). This past week she has been conducting research in an online archive called Early English Books Online.<\/p>\n

Karis Shearer<\/strong> is Principal\u2019s Research Chair in Digital Arts and Humanities and director of the AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan. Her research interests include Canadian and American poetry, literary audio, literary archives, media studies, feminist theory, sound studies, and oral history. She is co-editor Wanting Everything: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch<\/em> with Deanna Fong in 2020.<\/p>\n

Jessica Stites Mor<\/strong>\u00a0received her PhD in history at Yale University in 2008. She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of\u00a0the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies\u00a0and is author of\u00a0Transition Cinema: Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left since 1968\u00a0and\u00a0South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left.<\/em><\/p>\n

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