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I'm trying to find things to read for a funding application (blog posts, articles, whatever) about archive services as spaces of power, but specifically institutional / national archives (so not stories of how community archives resist power, but how somewhere like the National Archives or a university archive thinks critically about itself as a place of power and then does something practical about it)

any suggestions gratefully received

#archives #archivists @archivistodon @histodons

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It comes from a loose coalition of #archivists & #librarians, who are standing athwart #history & yelling “Save!” They belong to organizations such as the #InternetArchive, which co-created a project called the End of Term Web Archive to back up the federal web in 2008; the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, or #edgi; & #libraries at major #universities such as #MIT & the University of #Michigan.

[Canada] Halifax woman who photographed 2SLGBTQIA+/women's rights movements has work archived
cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia

Spanning 40 yrs, Anita Martinez's photos "brings the past forward" -- archivist

I'm a Vol. Board Member (as is Dan MacKay - ft. in article) of 2SLGBTQIA+ seniors advocacy group
Senior Pride Network Canada/Réseau de la Fierté des personnes aînées du Canada

SPNC/RFAC: spnc-rfac.ca

CBCHer photos captured Halifax's queer and women's rights movements. Now they're being preserved | CBC NewsAfter Anita Martinez died on Feb. 4, members of the 2SLGBT+ and women's rights communities in Halifax joined in to help preserve tens of thousands of photos depicting those movements from the late 1980s onward.

#Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump #CDC Website, Are Hosting It in #Europe

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald #Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe.
#restoredcdc #disease #pretrump #donaldtrump

404media.co/archivists-recreat

404 Media · Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in EuropeThe team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.

Fellow #archivists please help me remember which SAA Council members have blogged about their experiences on Council while serving. Erin Lawrimore and Kate Theimer are the first ones that come to mind, but I would appreciate having my memory jogged for others!

Here are this year's themes. We'd love to see your archive stories each month so we can share them here. And if you have a longer story to tell, consider getting in touch to write a blog post:

exploreyourarchive.org/create/

Any love left for February?/

January = #EYADustbusters
February = #EYALove
March = #EYAJustice
April = #EYAEarth
May = #EYAFunAndGames
June = #EYATravel
July = #EYANature
August = #EYAHumour
September =#EYAEducation
October = #EYAMonsters
November = #EYAReligion
#EYASpirituality
December = EYASparkle

@archivistodon #archives #archivists #history @histodons a.gup.pe

The Society of American Archivists condemns the decision of the White House to terminate substantial numbers of archivists and cultural heritage workers at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the National Park Service, and other government agencies.
www2.archivists.org/news/2025/
#Archives #Archivists #CulturalHeritage #NationalParks #PublicServants #StopTheCoup

👉 Register now for the New England #Archivists Spring meeting in Springfield, MA! newenglandarchivists.org/event

++ register for my pre-conference workshop, #Facilitation and Project Management for All. newenglandarchivists.org/event

Learn how to get groups to achieve their outcomes, while reducing harm to individuals (such as #burnout and #microaggressions) along the way. My experience is from facilitating communities of practice (SPN, BCC, DLF BDAWG, etc.) + community groups + aorta.coop/ 🌹

newenglandarchivists.orgNew England Archivists - NEA Spring Meeting 2025
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@josh @hannu_ikonen

I agree rewriting of #history is as old as history itself & the role of #archivists has always been part of #resistance.

Today we have two slightly unique double edged swords.

Never before has being a #citizen #journalist or a citizen archivist been so open & easy for so many.

Both those tearing down and those #preserving have access to the tools, their own respective bully puppets, their own claim on truth.

All who can should think, choose & act wisely & #ethically.

One more presentation in the #OpenResearch devroom about PANDORAE, an open system built to ease access to the fascinating (but closed, for legal reasons) content of the French Web that is systematically archived by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (1+ PB of data across millions of websites, only accessible for researchers on site)

#fosdem2025 #archivists

fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event

#Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of #Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government open data on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website’s own information. Since Donald #Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database.
#archive

404media.co/archivists-work-to

404 Media · Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.govMore than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.

phonotheque.hypotheses.org/491
، والأرشيفيين وأمناء المكتبات، وكل من يعمل في مجال التراث والذاكرة، من أجل حماية وإتاحة الوصول إلى أرشيفات سوريا الجديدة. phonotheque.hypotheses.org/490 Call for increased vigilance on the part of academic and independent researchers, #archivists and librarians, and all those working in the field of# heritage and #memory, to safeguard and provide# access to the archives of the new #Syria phonotheque.hypotheses.org/489 Appel à la vigilance #archives #Syrie #

Archives de la recherche & PhonothèqueAppel à vigilance à la sauvegarde et l’accès des archives de la nouvelle Syrie / Call for vigilance to safeguard and provide access to the archives of the new Syriaنداء إلى يقظة الباحثين والباحثات الأكاديميين والمستقلين، والأرشيفيين وأمناء المكتبات، وكل من يعمل في مجال التراث والذاكرة، من أجل حماية وإتاحة الوصول إلى أرشيفات سوريا الجديدة. https://phonotheque.hypotheses.org/49056 Call for increased vigilance on the part of academic and independent researchers, archivists and librarians, and all those working in the field of heritage and memory, to safeguard … Continuer la lecture de Appel à vigilance à la sauvegarde et l’accès des archives de la nouvelle Syrie / Call for vigilance to safeguard and provide access to the archives of the new Syria →