Archival Uncertainties – Workshop Programme

Posted on 7 March 2016 by Sebastian Gurciullo

International conference on literary archives, Monday, 4 April 2016, British Library Conference Centre. Download the full Archival Uncertainties Programme as PDF or Word document. This is a partnership event organised jointly by the Diasporic Literary Archives Network and the British Library. The Archival … Continue reading →

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Literary Archives in Uruguay

Posted on 1 March 2016 by David Sutton

One of the outcomes of the project on literary archives in Namibia was the drafting of an agreement between the National Archives of Namibia and the National Library of Namibia which determined that the collecting of literary documents in Namibia … Continue reading →

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Archives Littéraires de la Modernité (ALMé), à la Sorbonne

Posted on 24 February 2016 by David Sutton

La Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet propose, depuis décembre 2015, une bibliothèque littéraire des Archives Littéraires de la Modernité (ALMé). Celle-ci se compose de cinq corpus d’auteurs. Ces corpus comprennent les manuscrits d’auteurs de la BLJD entrés dans le domaine public, … Continue reading →

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Digitisation of the Gabriel García Márquez archive

Posted on 23 January 2016 by Sebastian Gurciullo

Back in January 2013, David Sutton wrote a blog post on the geographical destinies of literary manuscripts, and observed that the language of the author often determined whether they were likely to be acquired by a country other than their … Continue reading →

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World-Wide Directory of Repositories holding Artistic & Literary Archives

Posted on 2 January 2016 by David Sutton

SLA’s World-Wide Directory of Repositories holding Artistic & Literary Archives was revised, updated and expanded during the last three months of 2015, with the help of a small grant from ICA’s Programme Commission (PCOM). I would like now to invite … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2016

Posted on 1 January 2016 by David Sutton

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Best wishes to all our members and our readers, and to all friends of SLA, whichever calendar you use. For those who use the western calendar, a happy new year for 2016. In 2015 the SLA blog received over 20,000 … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Archival Uncertainties – International Conference on Literary Archives – 4 April 2016

Posted on 17 December 2015 by Sebastian Gurciullo

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This upcoming conference to be held at the British Library Conference Centre,  London on 4 April 2016, represents an opportunity to explore the uncertain future of literary archival sources in the present age. While information technology is changing rapidly and … Continue reading →

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Literary sources in the archives of military intelligence

Posted on 1 December 2015 by David Sutton

The post on this site about literary papers within business archives attracted some attention and comment. A more unusual example of literary papers within non-literary collections was described in a recent article by Lara Feigel (“File number P.F.97,471: anti-imperialist authoress”, … Continue reading →

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Literary papers within Business Archives

Posted on 2 November 2015 by David Sutton

The work of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network, GLAM, the British Location Register and others has established the importance of the archives of publishers and literary agencies in literary research and scholarship. The archives of financial institutions, however, should also … Continue reading →

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SLAM?

Posted on 1 November 2015 by David Sutton

In discussion with SLMT colleagues about a possible collaborative project with Cape Verdean archivists on musical collections, it becomes clear that there are very many similarities between the archives of Literature, Art and Music. Perhaps we should transform ourselves into … Continue reading →

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