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Item Open Access Already Enough Ghosts:The Invisibility of Emotional Labour in Archives(2016-06-12) St.Onge, AnnaPresented as part of a roundtable intended to provide a glimpse into the emotional and affective labour required to do archival work. Though many traditional archival theorists have suggested that professional archivists should remain objective and at an emotional "arms length" from the records and people with and for whom they work, failing to acknowledge the at times intensely emotional impact of archival work can negatively impact the mental and psychic wellness of the archivist - thereby affecting the archivist's professional output and professional relationships.Item Open Access Archival echoes: too weak to survive or too far to travel?(2016-04-04) St.Onge, AnnaThe extensive archives of Lady Victoria Welby (1837-1912), the English self-educated philosopher and prolific letter-writer, have been held by York University in Toronto, Canada for over forty-five years. Yet, in that time, relatively little research has been conducted regarding her rich correspondence with over four hundred individuals (with notable exceptions). This presentation will address the history of the records themselves: their fragmentation due to the publishing efforts of Welby’s daughter, Nina Cust; the intervention of descendants to produce an attractive lot for sale to a North American institution; and the extraction of discrete correspondence by individual researchers in pursuit of their own scholarly goals. A speculative piece, I will attempt to identify historical and serendipitous factors that may have led to her exclusion from scholarly histories. With the adoption of new tools and approaches to contextual information, as well as selective digitization of the archives, hitherto unexamined patterns and connections have surfaced in the remnants of Welby’s relationship with her vigorously cultivated network of correspondents. This presentation is part of a larger effort to boost awareness and visibility of the Welby archives in the scholarly community in order to actively insinuate her voice back into the scholarly discourse of late Victorian and Edwardian cultural studies. Overlaying this project is a question of the true impact of Welby: is her absence from the current canon of historical source material an accurate reflection of her contributions, or is it an unintended obscuration caused by the complex afterlife of her archives?Item Open Access Gettin Sh*t Done in the Digital Archives(2013-09-23) Ruest, Nick; St.Onge, AnnaWe live in a reality where official documents are born, revised and disseminated online. Most post-secondary institutions have record retention schedules to facilitate the transfer of official records with lasting historical value to the archives. Implementing similar practices in the online environment is challenging, in part due to an organizational culture that does not view websites as official university records, but rather as transactional, fluid spaces, despite the fact that such spaces are increasingly the only source of important documents. In addition, economic pressures and cutbacks in the university sector makes enterprise level electronic records keeping systems out of reach for many. These challenges cannot be met with a single solution. We need to work strategically to collaborate on long-term plans to ensure that born-digital records find their way into the archives. We will focus on our efforts within the library to capture and preserve a selection of websites and communications that document York’s campus activities, in a manner that is systematic and accessible. We will report on our efforts to pilot this approach both within the university environment and in the wider community. We will reflect on our efforts to share our practice, successes and failures publicly, working within events in which we have a personal or philosophical investment. A keynote speaker at a recent archival conference admonished the profession that “once one becomes an activist, one has lost one’s perspective and objectivity as a public servant.” We aim to test this assertion and demonstrate that ‘active’ professionals can contribute to the preservation of our own institutional memory, and document the wider online social movements shaping our collective experience.Item Open Access It's nothing, I'm fine: Acknowledging emotion and affect in archival practice(2016-06-12) St.Onge, Anna; Holland, Julia; Robichaud, DanielleItem Open Access Item Open Access Managing Digitization Projects(2010-03-10) Kosavic, Andrea; St.Onge, Anna