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- Title
Toward the Archival Multiverse: Challenging the Binary Opposition of the Personal and Corporate Archive in Modern Archival Theory and Practice.
- Authors
McKEMMISH, SUE; PIGGOTT, MICHAEL
- Abstract
This article points to the binary oppositions that characterize modern archival theory and much practice in the English-speaking archival world, with particular reference to the way they are manifest in the Australian context. At a time when mergers of library and archives institutions are increasingly an option, it is appropriate to consider in particular the impact of the binary construct of the manuscripts tradition in libraries on the one hand, and the focus of most national and state archives on government records on the other. In this article, we challenge the binary opposition of the personal and corporate archive, drawing on records continuum, postmodern, and postcustodial archival theory as developed in Australia and elsewhere; Indigenous ways of knowing; and emergent thinking on co-creation, the multiple simultaneous provenance of records, and the archival multiverse. We point to the need for archival research and theory building relating to the plurality of personal and corporate recordkeeping behaviours and cultures in the context of the complex interrelationships between "evidence of me" and "evidence of us" in the continuum, and in the online cultures and shared spaces of our digital worlds. We conclude with some suggestions about the rich possibilities for further research on personal recordkeeping in these contexts.
- Subjects
MANUSCRIPTS; PUBLIC records; ARCHIVAL theory; CORPORATE archives; PERSONAL archives
- Publication
Archivaria, 2013, Issue 76, p111
- ISSN
0318-6954
- Publication type
Article