Archives and Manuscripts

The purpose of this reflection piece is to discuss the visibility of heritage and the use of #throwbackthursday for school archivists and their collections. Social media is a valuable space for school archivists to share the wonders found in their archival collections. It is a way to connect with and provide positive engagement for the wider school community, providing connectivity, creating a collective memory and sharing intergenerational stories. In addition, this reflection piece provides first-person insight into how school archivists engage in #throwbackthursday and why it is important to provide visibility for school archivists and their archival collections.

Julie Daly

School Archives and the Visibility of Heritage via #throwbackthursday

学校档案与通过#throwbackthursday展现的遗产

N Thieberger, M Aird, C Bracknell, J Gibson, A Harris, M Langton, G Sculthorpe and J Simpson, ‘The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records’, Archives &amp; Manuscripts, vol. 51, no. 2, 2023, pp. 23–42. doi: 10.37683/asa.v51.10971. The authors wish to correct a mistake in this article. The opening statement ‘[T]he task for linguists is to act as a channel to ensure that stolen knowledge and authority flow back to communities’ is incorrectly attributed to Lesley Woods, but she actually cites it from Eira’s1 work. Later in the article a cross reference to that quote should similarly be attributed to Eira.

Nick Thieberger

Correction

更正

This issue concludes the 2023 publishing year, albeit published in 2024 due to the unpredictability of many elements that come together to make a society journal, including managing the time demands of authors and peer reviewers, Editor and production team changes and availability, and at times, the general pace of life in these current times which means over-commitments, juggling multiple hats and roles, and the nature of human life. Thanks to the move to a Society-based publishing model, however, we have been able to publish all the articles in this issue ‘online first’ as they are finalised, allowing authors to disseminate their findings and experiences as soon as possible. As always, online first articles are available from the Archives and Manuscripts website at publications.archivists.org.au

Angela Schilling

Jessie Lymn

Editorial

社论

For those whose stories are in the archives, accessing them can prompt many emotions and reactions. People accessing these records, and those processing and providing access to them, may be affected by their contents. There are many things we can do as archivists and archival institutions to make this process easier, more accessible, and safer for those who experience direct or intergenerational trauma. The profession has access to a growing selection of tools to guide our protocols and practices, such as the Tandanya Declaration, the ATSILIRN protocols and UNDRIP, as well as case studies for high-level institutional changes and cultural shifts, though this process is arguably only at the beginning of its collective journey. However, there are often immediate and practical ways in which we can implement anti-racist archival practice, including the way we describe archival materials. This paper will discuss practical ways in which archivists can actively undertake anti-racist description work, and why it is imperative that this work becomes a priority in our collection management work. It will draw on the comprehensive document Anti-Racist Description Resources, authored by the Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia’s (A4BLiP) Anti-Racist Description Working Group, as well as other standards and sources.

Anti-Racist Archival Description

反种族主义档案描述

Mike Jones

Rachel Tropea

Two Sides of the Same Coin? Exploring the Relationship Between Archival Research and Practice

档案研究与实践：一体两面？探究两者之间的关系

This is a reflection on my professional placement at Swinburne University’s Digital Heritage Lab, exploring the role the lab plays in the preservation of Australian digital artefacts like computer software, video games and media artworks. As technology advances, the lab confronts the challenges posed by obsolete infrastructure, machine dependency, and the fleeting window of opportunity for preservation. The absence of standardised guidelines is addressed through collaborative efforts within the EaaSI (Emulation as a Service Infrastructure) network. My placement provided firsthand experience of the variety of challenges associated with digital preservation, emphasising the need for ongoing experimentation and perseverance in the face of failure. The experience gained from the placement underscores the importance of developing ideas and approaches through practical application in the field of digital archiving.

Bryony Cavallaro

A Student’s Reflection on the Digital Heritage Lab

学生对数字遗产实验室的反思

This issue is the culmination of work across the profession and academia, under the leadership of our Special Issue Guest Editors Dr Mike Jones and Rachel Tropea. Mike and Rachel have worked with authors to produce this special issue over the past 18 months, and the outcome is a collection of papers, reflections and a significant conversation that document the current state of the ‘two sides of the same coin’ in archival research and practice, and looks to the future. Special issues of Archives and Manuscripts play an important role in creating spaces for focussed discussion on contemporary topics, and for documenting the key issues for the society and profession at a moment in time. Past special issues reflect this temporality – in 2019 the special issue ‘After the Digital Revolution’ considered the challenges of the digital in literary archives, whereas 25 years earlier the journal published a special issue that considered the broader challenge of ‘Electronic recordkeeping: Issues and perspectives’ (1994). The nuanced focus in 2019 on digital literary archives was enabled by the previous decades worth of research and publishing in the field. We are excited to have more special issues on the horizon, including a 2025 issue planned to document the outcomes of the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration Symposium, held in Christchurch, Aotearoa in October 2024. We encourage academics and professionals to consider Archives and Manuscripts as a potential home for collaborative ideas and engagement through special issue proposals. Angela SchillingDr Jessie LymnGeneral Editors

编者按

The archives of Australia’s first museum, the Australian Museum (AM) in Sydney, are an artefact of colonialism, still intertwined with the complexities of science, public museums, and imperialism. It’s the elephant in the archival room. However, change has come to Australia’s colonial-era museums, affecting their missions, historical framing, and collections and archives. This article provides a brief history of knowledge at the AM in order to showcase some current initiatives aimed at opening its archival holdings to new perspectives, encounters, shared knowledge, and a protocols-based approach to access. Understanding the history of the museum and its archival structures and methods is vital for rethinking a more open, generous, and responsible future for this important collection.

Vanessa Finney

Paper Elephants: Reflections on Changing Archival Practice at the Australian Museum

纸象：澳大利亚博物馆档案实践变迁的反思

This article reflects on the impact of digitisation programs for researcher access to archival materials. Using the author’s experience as both a researcher using digitised material and as a manager of archival programs, the article considers the opportunities and challenges of researcher demand for digital access and suggests the archival value of responsible stewardship is a useful concept when navigating access in the online era.

Jessica Moran

Research, Access, and Digitisation: Reflections on Responsible Stewardship in the Online Era

研究、获取与数字化：在线时代负责任管理的反思

This paper discusses the role and importance of Indigenous research methodologies in building spaces for Indigenous-led archival futures in Australia. It considers the development of professional statements of support for advancing First Nations engagement and Indigenous self-determination in the archives as an example of where Indigenous research methodologies and methods can increase Indigenous agency and decision-making in the archives. The research design, methodologies and methods, including Yarning, Indigenous Standpoint and Indigenous Storywork, utilised in the research project Unclasping the White Hand: Reclaiming and Refiguring the Archives to Support Indigenous Wellbeing and Sovereignty are discussed to highlight the importance of bridging gaps between research and practice. In doing this, it describes pathways for building respectful and ethical research in partnership with First Nations people in Australia. It contributes to dialogue on how these approaches can support the decolonisation of archival research, which in turn has the power to build transformations of practice to support First Nations archival priorities.

Abbreviation	Archives and Manuscripts
Journal Impact	1.31
Quartiles(Global)	INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE(Q2)

ISSN	0157-6895, 2164-6058
h-index	12

Publication Information	Publisher: Australian Society of Archivists，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2013，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:30.80%， Gold OA Rate: 79.31%

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School Archives and the Visibility of Heritage via #throwbackthursday

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Editorial

Anti-Racist Archival Description

Two Sides of the Same Coin? Exploring the Relationship Between Archival Research and Practice

A Student’s Reflection on the Digital Heritage Lab

Editorial

Paper Elephants: Reflections on Changing Archival Practice at the Australian Museum

Research, Access, and Digitisation: Reflections on Responsible Stewardship in the Online Era

Designing Indigenous-Led Archival Futures: The Application of Indigenous Research Methodologies Within Archival Research and Practice