A special masterclass with international archive expert and researcher, Professor Anne Gilliland

Overview:

Community archives are emerging globally in physical, digital and hybrid forms. This is due, in part, to a mix of factors (political, professional and technological) that go beyond earlier forms of community heritage and documentary efforts. Characterised by their community-centricity, community archives often blur distinctions between archives and other kinds of information, memory and heritage institutions and their associated professions and practices, and engage a range of disciplinary, cultural and community expertise. Community voices may be recorded, stored, presented, disseminated, accessed and augmented, often independently of physical archives, by employing social media, mobile technologies and cloud computing. Use of such technology, coupled with a social justice orientation that occurs in many grassroots community archival efforts, also brings the community archives movement into a new dialogue with the field of community informatics.

This masterclass will encourage participants to reflect critically upon questions that might arise as part of their engagement with community archives initiatives.

Who should attend:

Archivists, records managers, museum and heritage sector professionals, librarians, community informatics specialists, community members, academics and anyone with a desire to explore the notion of community archiving and memory in depth. Limited to 18 participants; early bird discount available.

• Go to Victoria's Professional and Executive Development for further details & registration link

Bio:

Anne Gilliland is a professor of Information Studies and Moving Image Archive Studies and chair of the UCLA Department of Information Studies. She is also the director of the Center for Information as Evidence and of the MLIS Specialization in Archival Studies program.

Anne Gilliland’s research in archival informatics concentrates on points where issues relating to record-keeping, accountability, enterprise and societal memory intersect with technology within and across organizational, community and disciplinary domains. At a broader level, her work examines how this area can be instrumental in building and furthering archival research, theory, professional practice and education as well as the archival role as it is perceived and is instrumental in society.

Professor Ann Gilliland is being hosted by the School of Information Management.