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    Archives, Contents of Volume 51, No. 2

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    The Algonquin Provincial Park Oral History Transcription Pilot Project 

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    This communication details an emerging partnership between the collections coordinator of the Algonquin Provincial Park Archives and Collections (APPAC), and anthropologists at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. This partnership offers students at Queen’s practical experience in working with oral histories, including transcription and basic discourse analysis, by engaging directly with recordings accessioned at the APPAC. In this article, we reflect on the collaborative process that gave rise to this project, outline what worked well, suggest ways to improve upon our pilot efforts, and provide a working model for other interdisciplinary partnerships focused on archival collections. We also suggest ways that archival collections can be used in interdisciplinary pedagogy and reflect on how these kinds of collaborations can be fruitful for academic researchers, archival users, students, and museum visitors

    Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

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    Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History. Laura E. Helton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 305 pp. 978-0-2312-1274-

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    SERENA KESHAVJEE (ed.), The Art of Ectoplasm: Encounters with Winnipeg’s Ghost Photographs

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    Mr. Dressup to Degrassi: 42 Years of Legendary Toronto Kids TV. Myseum of Toronto, Toronto, ON

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    Mr. Dressup to Degrassi: 42 Years of Legendary Toronto Kids TV. Museum of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. May 24 – September 24, 2023. Curated by Ed Conroy

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    Archives, Contents of Recent Issue

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    ARCHIVES - Volume 51, No.

    Caring for Archives of Incarceration: The Ethics of Carceral Collecting at University Archives

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    In recent years, university archives have initiated efforts to document mass incarceration in the United States. As they engage in this work, it is important to examine how archivists are responding to the ethical challenges presented by collecting and stewarding records related to incarceration. This article addresses that need by reporting on the findings of qualitative interviews with archivists working at academic repositories with major collections focused on incarceration. This study’s focus on university archives reflects their prom- inence in undertaking such work, which is likely to continue given these institutions’ comparative autonomy and access to resources. Evaluating this work is urgent because of the vulnerable position of those most impacted by the prison system. Three major themes emerged from the interview data collected in this research: (1) financial and intellectual resources available at universities to support incarceration-related archiving; (2) the university context can provoke ethical anxiety for archivists working with incarceration-related collections; and (3) obtaining meaningful consent is a particularly difficult challenge for archives that steward incarceration materials. Placing these findings within the context of the academy’s carceral entanglements and in dialogue with critical prison studies and critical archival studies scholarship, I argue that ethical incarceration archiving demands a liberatory approach. This approach begins by asking if and how incarceration archiving can help get people free.Au cours des dernières années, les centres d’archives universitaires ont entrepris des efforts de documentation des incarcérations de masse aux États-Unis. Alors qu’ils s’engagent dans ce travail, il est important d’examiner comment les archivistes répondent aux questions éthiques qui émergent à travers la collection d’information et les responsabilités associées à la garde des documents reliés à l’incarcération. Cet article aborde ce besoin en mettant en lumière les résultats qualitatifs d’entrevues avec des archivistes œuvrant dans des centres d’archives universitaires comprenant des collections importantes centrées sur l’incarcération. L’accent de cette étude sur les archives universi- taires reflète l’importance d’entreprendre de tels travaux. Cette exploration risque de se poursuivre étant donné l’indépendance relative de ces institutions et de leur accès à des ressources. Évaluer ce travail est urgent étant donnée la position vulnérable des personnes les plus touchées par le système pénitencier. Dans cette recherche, trois thèmes majeurs émergent des données collectées lors des entrevues : 1) les ressources financières et intellectuelles disponibles dans les universités soutiennent les initiatives d’archivage reliées à l’incarcération; 2) le contexte universitaire peut provoquer de l’anxiété éthique pour les archi- vistes travaillant avec les collections reliées à l’incarcération; 3) obtenir un consentement important représente un défi particulier pour les centres d’ar- chives qui préservent du matériel qui concerne l’incarcération. En situant les résultats de recherche dans le contexte des études universitaires sur l’incar- cération, et en dialogue avec les études critiques sur les prisons et les études critiques archivistiques, je soutiens que l’archivage éthique de l’incarcération exige une approche libératrice. Cette approche commence par se demander si et comment l’archivage de documents sur l’incarcération peut contribuer à la libération des personnes

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