Call for Participants: Survey on Trauma-Informed Archival Practice

Dear all,

My name is Emily Hill, I am a current master's student at the University of Glasgow completing my dissertation titled: 

 

To what extent is Trauma-Informed Archival Practice understood and used within the Archival Sector? How effective are the methods of support available to Archivists? 

The aim of this dissertation is to explore the breadth of knowledge within the Archival sector surrounding Trauma-Informed Archival Practice, where professionals have learned about Trauma theory and if the mental health and secondary trauma support available is accessible and effective. There is no prior knowledge of Trauma-Informed Practice needed to participate, as these concepts are explained within the Participant information forms. 

Participation in this survey will take approximately 15 minutes, including the Participant Information and Agreement forms which should be viewed and signed before participation in the survey questions. 

All survey responses are received anonymised, with the data being analysed in correlation with other respondent data on a question-by-question basis. 

I would be very grateful for your participation in this survey, and if you have any questions or concerns you wish to address prior to participating, please email me at 2650467H AT student.gla.ac.uk. 

You can access the survey here. 

Thank you in advance for your participation!

Best wishes, 

Emily Hill.

My source:
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Records Management Journal - Editor Opportunity

 All

After nine years in post, I am stepping away as a Co-Editor of the Records Management Journal. My colleague Sarah Demb has also recently completed her term. A double issue on recordkeeping and the law is about to land and we have a strong series of articles for next year. We are therefore advertising the opportunity for someone to take forward this important Journal which contributes in research and practice, and does publish content globally. The role of Editor provides a first hand opportunity to lead and network in this field, positioning special themed issues and ground breaking research. The work is supported by its strong Editorial Board.

The full advertisement is at:

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/rmj/records-management-journal-rmj-searching-a-new-editor-chief-or-co-editors

I am very happy to answer any further enquiries.

Kind regards

Elizabeth

Dr Elizabeth Lomas, FRSA, FIRMS, FHEA, FRHisS

Associate Professor in Information Governance

G43, Foster Court

Department of Information Studies

University College London

Gower Street

London WC1E 6BT U.K.

Email: e.lomas AT ucl.ac.uk

My source: RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK list.

Additional citation: IRMS Bulletin - November 2022

 Last May I presented Hodges' model at the IRMS Conference in Glasgow.

When I walked in to set up I had the room to myself. I was able to attend on the final day, that of my talk - travelling and staying at my own expense.

The concurrent - streamed format for the conference means you are competing for hearts, minds and existing conceptual frameworks, how well they are populated, what are the 'gaps' and delegate's curiosity and desire for lifelong learning. Next year's event is in Manchester, I'd encourage you to submit, attend if you can.

Five minutes before the start of my session, I counted 8-10 people. The Chair had arrived and suggested we wait a bit longer. 4-5 minutes later I was really pleased - all the seats were occupied and people still arrived by the door. Altogether there were over 30 people.

I'm probably better 1-1 - perhaps that's the 'nurse inside', but the session went well, as the Chair acknowledged and some questions afterwards.

At the end, I was also approached by Jonathan Fryer, in response to a slide showing how Hodges' model can conceptually encompass the various forms of literacy and schools and informatics (posted previously on W2tQ).

Jon immediately saw the relevance of the model, as at The British Library (Head of Corporate Information Management Corporate Information Management Unit) he was currently thinking about literacy.

IRMS Bulletin is a member-based publication, so not open access. I'm grateful that Hodges' model has some exposure and that Mr Fryer found it helpful:

"Information Literacies - Learning, to thrive in a digital age"

IRMS bulletin 230

"I am indebted to Peter Jones, who shared Hodges’ Health Career Model¹ with the 2022 IRMS conference in Glasgow. Although originally used in a healthcare setting, this simple, two-axis intellectual model can be readily used to analyse any complex interaction between the individual and their environment – in this case, information literacies.

The diagram² shows a number of distinct yet overlapping literacies that were potentially in play in our problem example, although there are likely to be many more – even emotional literacy played a part, with the frustrations of the young people in question causing them to dismiss potential solutions before they had been tried or even considered. Likewise, socio-political and socio-economic literacies may have been a factor – if you are unaware that something exists in the world due to blind-spots in your own cultural background then you cannot even begin to look for it."

Jon Fryer, "Information Literacies - Learning, to thrive in a digital age". IRMS Bulletin, Issue 230, November 2022.

[ I will add a detailed citation when obtained and add to the blog's bibliography. Apparently some details referring to Hodges' model were omitted from the published article, I understand IRMS editors are addressing this is a future issue. ]

See also:
https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=blind-spot

I am planning a submission to the bulletin myself in 2023.

IRMS Conference 2022 - RESILIENCE RECOVERY RENEWAL

  

Information & Records Management Society (IRMS)
RESILIENCE RECOVERY RENEWAL

15th-17th May 2022, Glasgow - Doubletree by Hilton

The annual IRMS Conference is *the* go-to event in the information management calendar, bringing together 400 practitioners, compliance managers, senior executives and others from a range of organisations across all industry sectors in the UK and beyond.

Our theme for 2022 is Resilience, Recovery, Renewal, recognising the phases of individuals' and organisations' response to the effects of the global pandemic, and the critical role of information and records management in enabling and supporting business continuity.

More details ... 

 

n.b. See you on the 17th? PJ

The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information

individual
|

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

|

group

	-TECHNICAL
SOCIO-

 

Don't forget the horizontal history and better prepare for the future too?

 

The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information. Craig Robertson. University of Minnesota Press. 2021.

My source: Peter Kurilecz, RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK mail list

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK 

Jones, P. (1996) Humans, Information, and Science, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24(3),591-598.

Call for Papers - Dismantling Systemic Racism in Archives and Record-Keeping Practices, Archives and Records Special Issue

Archives and Records

Call for Papers
Dismantling Systemic Racism in Archives and Record-keeping Practices
Archives and Records Special Issue, 42:3 (November 2021)

Editors: Norma Gregory, Victoria Hoyle, Sarah-Joy Maddeaux

The social, economic and personal impacts of systemic racism are traumatic and profound.  The protests seen around the world in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020 reflect the deep and persistent effects of racial inequity in global society. They have again highlighted the roots of injustice in political, social and cultural systems of oppression, which activist movements like Black Lives Matter have sought to dismantle.

It has long been recognised that archives, archival institutions and record-keepers are implicated in how racism operates and reproduces in society.  Verne Harris and Michelle Caswell have described archives’ relation to dominant systems of power, whilst Jarrett Drake, Tonia Sutherland and Jamila Ghaddar have called for recognition of the inherently racist, oppressive and discriminatory nature of many archival institutions and record-keeping practices. In the UK, Black Archives and archivists of colour have persistently drawn attention to the ongoing impacts of racism and colonialism. A 2020 UK petition asking practitioners to commit to dismantling systemic racism received 1708 signatures on Change.org, articulating collective and individual responsibilities to effect change in the profession.

Nevertheless, discussions of systemic racism, white privilege, white supremacy, justice and equity continue to be controversial in the record-keeping field. Wide-ranging implications arise from questions such as:

• How have archives and archival institutions contributed to the systemic oppression of people of colour?
• How is archival theory and practice challenged by Black Lives Matter and other protest and justice movements?
• What role do record-keeping practitioners and educators play in perpetuating or dismantling systemic racism?
• What kinds of action and labour are required to dismantle systemic racism and to reconstruct an equitable and just archives and records field?
• To what extent do white privilege and white supremacy impact on archival spaces and understandings of what archives are and do?
• Are models and frameworks for reparation, restitution and justice transferable and valuable for archives?
• Are calls to ‘diversify the profession’ and ‘decolonise the archive’ sufficient impetus to change? How successful have such programmes been?
• What is the relationship between archival institutions and archival activism led by Black and Indigenous people, and people of colour?
• How is digital technology and social media impacting on documenting anti-racist action, protest and organisation? Is this documentation making its way into permanent archival collections available for public reference?
• How has television and radio programming (for example, BBC2 ‘The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files’ by David Olusoga) illuminated the nature, practice and concerns around the presentation (or inaccessibility/disposal) of colonial archive records?
• To what extent should legal or professional frameworks around record-keeping practice be reviewed?

This special issue of Archives and Records seeks to explore and respond to the challenge of racism and systemic oppression in record-keeping contexts. It aims to provide space to explore questions of race in discourse, practice and professional identity; at national, institutional, local and personal levels. It hopes to engender both reflection and action, and to amplify the voices and experiences of Black and Indigenous people and people of colour.  It will have a particular focus on the UK and Ireland, where discussions of racism in archives have thus far been limited, but invites international perspectives on Britain’s colonial legacy and on Anglophone ideas of archives and race.

The editors invite papers on any aspect of racism and anti-racism in the archive. Contributions might consider, but need not be confined to, the following themes:

• Histories of racism and anti-racism in record-keeping
• Decolonising the archive
• The intersection of critical race studies and archival theory
• Archival activism and community archives led by people of colour
• Collecting and curating protest and activist movements for racial justice
• Frameworks and models for dismantling systemic racism in the record-keeping field
• Reparation, restitution and transitional justice
• Intersections of race, gender, sexuality and class.

Expressions of interest should be made to victoria.hoyle AT york.ac.uk by 30 September 2020.

We particularly welcome submissions from people of colour, and those from marginalised communities.

Expressions of interest should be approximately 500-1000 words and contain a brief outline of the proposed article. The editors invite prospective authors to contact them to discuss their ideas informally before the deadline. The editors will also work with prospective authors who do not have experience of writing academic articles to prepare a paper for publication. We will contact all contributors to discuss their proposal by the end of October 2020.

The deadline for draft papers, for authors who would like editorial feedback prior to final submission, will be 28 February 2020. Completed papers will be due by 2 April 2021. All submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed prior to acceptance for publication, and both authors and reviewers will remain anonymous throughout the process.

We anticipate the special issue will be published in November 2021, in both online and print formats.

We are also looking for volunteers to review books or online resources on related topics. Please contact helen_kavanagh AT outlook.com, Deputy Reviews and Obituaries Editor, if you would like to contribute in this way.

--
Sarah-Joy Maddeaux

Co-Editor, Archives and Records

sjmaddeaux AT gmail.com

My source:
records-management-uk AT jiscmail.ac.uk

Mon, 27 Jul at 14:10