20th April 2016
Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies
Communities, locally and internationally, are increasingly seeing archives as mechanisms for preserving their own heritage, as sites that can unify their community, and as forms of political action. Concurrently, our professional discourse has opened up to
re-considering the significance of community archives as concepts such as ‘rights in records’, ‘parallel provenance’, ‘post-custodialism' and ‘post-nationalism’ have gained ground. Community archives afford the archival profession an opportunity to consider
the ways in which collective identities and historical narratives are shaped, or could be shaped.
The Liverpool University Centre for Archives Studies is holding an afternoon training session on community archives. This will consist of a number of short presentations followed by a workshop led by Dr Andrew Flinn (Department of Information Studies, UCL).
Our aim is to look at local and international examples of community archives, consider how established archives engage with communities, and explore the issues faced by community archives and archivists. The workshop will be helpful to archivists (however
defined) working in community archives, and those working in government or institutional archives that need to engage with issues of custody and access to material generated by communities.
2pm – 5pm, Wednesday 20th April
Lecture Theatre 7, Rendall Building
The University of Liverpool, Bedford Street South, Liverpool, L69 7ZQ
