This week is our final set of readings, and our final reading response DB.

Archives and libraries are often tied closely together as institutions that hold, and control access to, information. Archives come in many formats and have many uses as sites of research and learning.

In Archives: Principles and Practice (2017, pg 4), Millar offers the following definition, which helps to frame the rest of the readings.

The word ‘archives’ can be used to refer to the materials themselves, to the institution caring for them or to the repository holding those materials. A full definition of ‘archives’, encompassing the three primary ways in which the word may be used, is this: 

1. Documentary materials created, received, used and kept by a person, family, organization, government or other public or private entity in the conduct of their daily work and life and preserved because they contain enduring value as evidence of and information about activities and events. 

2. The agency or institution responsible for acquiring and preserving archival materials and making those items available for use. 

3. The building or other repository housing archival collections. 

As always, the readings are linked in the Course Schedule, and the DB prompt is on the forum.

Literature Review

I will provide feedback on your literature review rough drafts and return them to you this week. Please take my comments into account when revising the paper for your final draft, which will be due December 19th.

If you have questions about the literature review, or anything class related, you can email me or make an appointment to talk.