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1. Theorizing Shiny Things: Archival Labors.

Author

Ferguson, Kathy E.

Subjects
*ARCHIVES, *WOMEN anarchists, *ARCHIVAL materials, *PRACTICAL politics
Abstract

The author recounts her experience of working in the Emma Goldman Papers Project, an archive about topics related to the women anarchist, at the University of California in Berkeley. She cites the reasons for contemporary archive panic, including the vast expansion of archiving and archivable materials through electronic technologies. Definitions of an archive is also provided. She expresses her desire to investigate the political conditions that confine archival materials and work for their liberation.

Published
2008
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2. National Archives and Berkeley dispute rights to collection.

Subjects
*RESEARCH libraries, *ACADEMIC libraries, *ARCHIVES, *DOCUMENTATION, *ACADEMIC librarians, *ACADEMIC library directors
Abstract

Reports that a dispute between the University of California/Berkeley library and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) may threaten research libraries' abilities to build archives of scholars' papers. Focus and details of the dispute; Arguments of Berkeley library officials and NARA; Comments of Joseph A. Rosenthal, Berkeley university librarian.

Published
1990