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Question:Tweeted by @alanyliu on August 23, 2013:
Could use help from archivist/DH community: what 1 best piece to assign to grad students on idea (w some history & practice) of "archive"?		(This spreadsheet last revised 8 March 2016)
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Purpose of question: To find works about archives to include among other materials in a class of my "Introduction to Digital Humanities" graduate student course. The particular class in the course focuses on the relation between the ideas of pastness, history, and media. (See link to the particular class in the latest version of course in 2014 at right.) 2014 version of my graduate course on digital humanities -- Class 8 on Digital Time: Pastness, Archives, and Media Archaeology for the Digital Age)
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AuthorWorkOnline (Non-paywalled)Suggested bySuitability for students at introductory level (as evaluated by A. Liu)
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Bantin, Philip C."Strategies for Managing Electronic Records: A New Archival Paradigm of Our Archival Tradition?" Archival Issues 23.1 (1998): 17-34. Print.http://www.indiana.edu/~libarch/ER/macpaper12.pdf(found by Alan Liu)"The article includes summaries of the concepts and strategies proposed by those archivists, on the one hand, who advocate employing traditional archival methodologies to manage electronic records, and those, on the other hand, who recommend reengineering the management process and developing and implementing new techniques and methodologies. In an attempt to make this review as pertinent and familiar as possible, these ideas are examined in the context of three archival functions: custody, appraisal, and description."
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Caswell, Michelle"'The Archive' is Not An Archives: Acknowledging the Intellectual Contributions of Archival Studies." Reconstruction, 16.1 (2016)http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/161/Caswell.shtml(found by Alan Liu)Taking as its topic the incommensurable ideas of "archives" held by humanities schorlars and archival studies scholars, the article "explores why there has been such a failure of interdisciplinarity and proposes concrete solutions for bridging this intellectually unsustainable divide." Includes an intellectual history of archival studies that provides a good introduction to the field.
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Clegg, Cyndia Susan"Archival Poetics and the Politics of Literature: Essex and Hayward Revisited." Studies in the Literary Imagination, 32.1 (1999): 115-32. Print.Michael Ullyot @ullyotSuitable for more advanced purpoes; includes specific focus on Early Modern studies
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Cook, Terry"What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift." Archivaria, 43 (1997). Print.http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12175/13184
Kimberly Garmoe @KimberlyGarmoe
detailed history of theories of archival practice in the modern era; best suited for more specialized purposes or advanced students
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Craven, Louise"From the Archivist's Cardigan to the Very Dead Sheep: What are Archives? What are Archivists? What do They Do?" Louise Craven, ed. What are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Issues: A Reader. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008. Print and PDF.http://203.128.31.71/articles/whatRarchives.pdf
Andrew Prescott @Ajprescott
Pp. 16-21 are especially suitable for introductory purposes, as are pp. 21-23 on the impact of information media on archives. The essay as a whole focuses on the archival profession and use of archives in various academic sectors, with a special emphasis on changes due to information tech.
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Duranti, Luciana"Archives as a Place." Archives and Manuscripts, 24.2 (November 1996): 242-55. Print.http://archivo.cartagena.es/files/36-165-DOC_FICHERO1/07-duranti_archives.pdfJohn Russell @uohistibexcellent for introductory purposes
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Ham, F. Gerald"The Archival Edge." American Archivist 38 (January 1975): 5-13.americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.38.1.7400r86481128424Heard through: Samantha Winn @Sam_Winn and Kate Theimer @archivesnextInfluential presidential address at the 1974 meeting of the Society of American Archivists. Ham finds that U.S. archival work comes up short in the face of larger social, cultural needs. He diagnoses failings and makes recommendations for the future evolution of archival practice.
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Manoff, Marlene"Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines." Portal, 4.1 (2004): 9-25. Print and PDF.http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35687Paul Fyfe @pfyfeintroduction to recent theoretical and political approaches to the idea of archives; especially good as introduction to Derrida's ideas in Archive Fever
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Manoff, Marlene"Archive and Database as Metaphor: Theorizing the Historical Record." Portal, 10.4 (2010): 385-98. Print and PDFhttp://bit.ly/15aIqPTMarlene Manoff, @MarleneManoffwide-ranging discussion of the relation between "archive" and "database" in the context of digital media (and recent digital-humanities and new-media discussions)
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Ridener, JohnFrom Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory. Duluth, MN: Litwin, 2009. Print and eBook.Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaumnot yet evaluated
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Theimer, Kate"Archives in Context and as Context." Digital Humanities Quarterly, 1.2 (2012), n. pag. Web.http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-2/archives-in-context-and-as-context-by-kate-theimer/Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaumexcellent for introductory purposes
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Voss, Paul J., and Marta L. Werner"Toward a Poetics of the Archive: Introduction." Studies in the Literary Imagination, 32.1 (1999): i-viii. Print.Katherine D. Harris @triproftriAn introduction to a journal special issue on the theme of "poetics of the archive"; the first 2 pages are especially good for introductory purposes. Much of the rest of the piece is devoted to introducing the particular articles in the special issue.
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Ernst, WolfgangDigital Memory and the Archive. Ed. Jussi Parikka. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Print.Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum: "from a specifically #mediaarchaeology perspective, the Ernst collection edited by @juspar from @UminnPress"

@alanyliu: Jussi Parikka's introduction in this volume is an excellent introduction to European media archaeology theory. The volume and intro as a whole are suited to more advanced students.
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Abraham, TerryArchival Theory: Notes Towards the Beginnings of a bibliography." March 2012. Web.http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/papers/theorybb.htm
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