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SLA in Mexico City, November 2017

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It has been confirmed that SLA will be presenting a session on Caribbean literary archives as part of this year’s ICA Annual Conference, to be held in Mexico City, 27-29 November 2017. The long title of the session is this: … Continue reading

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Safe Havens for Archives at Risk

As described in earlier posts, SLA has continued to support work being conducted on Archival Safe Havens (cases of archives in extreme danger which may, as a last resort, be physically moved to a safe location or be digitally copied … Continue reading

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SLA in 2017

This is an update to some earlier posts on future SLA activities. Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Portland, July 2017. SLA will not be represented at SAA. Several members have indicated that they would be uncomfortable travelling to the … Continue reading

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Archive of Tom Sharpe in Girona

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Discussions within SLA and the Diasporic Literary Archives Network in recent years have emphasised the importance of language in international collection-building. Language has come to be seen as a much stronger force than other factors such as geography, “natural location” … Continue reading

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Basic principles in support of human rights

At the ICA Congress in Seoul in September 2016, the Basic Principles of the Role of Archivists and Record Managers in Support of Human Rights was endorsed by the Programme Commission as an ICA working document for discussion, publicising and … Continue reading

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Germaine Greer: evidence of Shakespeare

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Dr Rachel Buchanan, Curator, Germaine Greer Archives, University of Melbourne Archives, explores the intriguing connections between Germaine Greer’s highly-influential The Female Eunuch and her early academic engagement with the works of William Shakespeare. The formation of Greer’s formidable public persona, … Continue reading

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SLA Projects 2016-2017

Project work is an important part of the activity of any Section of the International Council on Archives. Within ICA, these are difficult times for the funding of Sections, and a number of our projects may go ahead without receiving … Continue reading

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Archival Uncertainties – Workshop Programme

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

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

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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