In the past thirty years, a growing community has emerged to advocate for the preservation and recognition of home movie collections based on their historical significance. Despite the significant cost of preserving and providing access to these collections and the myriad challenges they pose to archivists and researchers, no substantive research exists that evaluates their actual scholarly use or impact. Through a publication analysis and a survey of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, I sought to determine if there is a difference between whom archivists think should be using home movie collections and who is actually them. Though my findings suggest that home movies have yet to impact the scholarly work of historians, I offer recommendations for future research and professional development that may encourage increased scholarly use as well as increased collaboration between archivists and historians. / text

The American Genre Film Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 2009 by Tim League, founder and CEO of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. With a sense of rebellion against established film archives, AGFA is dedicated to the collection of 35mm prints of exploitation films from the 1960s-1980s in order to conserve and distribute these neglected films. A confluence of issues including the history of the films in the collection, AGFA’s connection with the Alamo Drafthouse, and influences from the hipster subcultures combine to inform AGFA’s practices and mission. This thesis will explore how the American Genre Film Archive conforms to and rebels against the established archive community by means of its mission and institutional structure. Also, this thesis will explore AGFA as a hipster institution through its collecting and exhibition practices. AGFA’s roles in the wider film archive community and the hipster community converge into an unusual archive serving unusual films. / text

隨著電腦和網路的發展，檔案也由傳統之紙本檔案發展至紙本與電子檔案雙軌並存之方式。Web 2.0提供了比以往Web 1.0更多元豐富且便利的網站經營和使用方式，目前已經被廣泛地運用在各類型網站中，在現在以及未來之網路環境中將可以預見的是—網站將不再只是為了讓使用者取得特定的內容資訊，而會更重視使用者與網站管理者，以及使用者彼此間的互動性關係。因此要如何在資訊日新月異的電腦和網路時代將檔案服務與網路加以結合，透過Web 2.0技術之發展在這一方面的應用有突破便是值得我們加以思考和探討之方向。 本研究目的分為四項：一、探討Web 2.0概念與包含之技術；二、探討國外檔案界對於Web 2.0網站的使用現況與經驗；三、探討目前國內檔案典藏單位網站所提供之服務內容；四、探討哪些Web 2.0網站技術適用於國內的典藏單位。 本研究首先透過文獻分析法彙整並探討Web 2.0與Library 2.0相關文獻，其後使用深度訪談法由訪談之機關檔案典藏單位與國家檔案典藏單位所獲得之資訊加以彙整分析。最後結合文獻與訪談資料內容進行綜合分析後提出四項結論：一、Web 2.0具有彌補共享及互動不足，提升使用率和豐富性之優勢；二、國外多個國家檔案館已經提供Web 2.0之服務；三、檔案典藏單位網站面臨之問題與解決方式；四、適合融入國內檔案典藏單位網站的Web 2.0服務項目。 最後依據研究之結論提出五點建議：一、建立機關檔案典藏單位網站一套完整之制度或規範；二、充實檔案典藏單位在網站管理之專職人力；三、加強檔案典藏單位網站服務與推廣；四、培訓檔案管理人員對Web 2.0之認識與應用；五、針對Web 2.0服務於檔案典藏單位網站進行小規模實驗計畫。 / Along with develop of computer and network, archives are come from only paper made to both of paper made archives and electronic records. Web 2.0 provides more comfortable and convenient ways of website manage and use than Web 1.0, it has more and more use in any kind of website now. Website will not only provide information for user to read in future, but also place importance on the interaction between website manager and user. So how do we use Web 2.0 to combine archive service with network will be an important question. The thesis aims to: (1) Web 2.0 conception and technology; (2) the using of Web 2.0 in archive websites in the world; (3) the situation of archival repository websites in Taiwan; (4) what kinds of Web 2.0 technology are useful for archival repository websites in Taiwan. The thesis apply literature analysis in Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 first, then interview eight archives in Taiwan. At last generalize five conclusions from literature and interview information: (1) Web 2.0 has an advantage position on sharing and interaction, to promote website utility rate; (2) many national archives in the world are already provide Web 2.0 website; (3)problems and resolutions of archival repository websites in Taiwan; (4)useful Web 2.0 service in archival repository website in Taiwan. Finally, the thesis provide five suggestions: (1) establish a complete website system for organization archival repository; (2) provide more sole duty staffs to website management; (3) enhance archival repository website service and advertisement; (4) the training of Web 2.0 and information education to archive managers; (5) give a small experiment on the useful of Web 2.0 using in archival repository websites in Taiwan.

General-purpose multi-access computing systems with files stored on random-access devices require that these files be protected. If the total on-line storage is inadequate there is a need for wellorganized off-line storage. This thesis discusses the management problems involved in handling backup and archive copies of files. In Part I we review what a number of systems, including the Edinburgh Multi-Access System (EMAS), have achieved. We also consider the influences of hardware and other forms of computing system. In Part II we return to EMAS and propose a design and an implementation to provide comprehensive facilities, for backup copies of files and recovery of them, and also for archive storage.

A history of the University of Arizona College of Law.

In recent years a number of important studies have emerged that focus on the lives of the human agents who operated in the early-modern book trade. This marks a scholarly shift away from the technologies of book production towards the figures who operated, profited from, and helped to shape, print technologies and their related products. In this critical movement the identities of printers, publishers, and booksellers have come to matter, both in terms of our understanding of what constitutes ‘print culture,’ and in efforts to narrativise the history of the book. However, although scholars have become increasingly familiar with a critical vocabulary that links early-modern print with textual transience, and the archive with paradigms associated with absence, disputation, and authenticity, biographies related to the lives of book-trade professionals have tended to privilege the representational stability of the documentary evidence we use to reconstruct past lives. This thesis aims to address this critical vacuum by analysing the life and career of one highly controversial, although critically neglected, 17th-century printer, Henry Hills (c. 1625-1688/9). By drawing together methodologies associated with bibliography, the history of the book, and the study of literatures, the thesis seeks to self-reflexively respond to the absences, doublings, missing or fabricated texts, revisions, accretions, and amendments that seem to mark, and have come to shape, the story of Hills’ life. Theories and approaches associated with the materiality of early-modern lives, critical biography, and the archive are used to fully explore the way Hills functioned both in his own time and after as a metonymic figure who has been actively written and rewritten with different historically specific agendas in mind. Ideas of elusiveness, how his contemporaries struggled to represent Hills, and the problem of locating him in the documentary evidence, are also investigated. In the process this thesis casts new light not only on Hills but on the 17th-century printing trade and the printer as a cultural emblem, 17th-century history and culture, and the way we research lives in the early modern period. Each of the chapters of this thesis discusses archival sources that critical biography and bibliography have traditionally looked to for biographical details of Hills’ life. These include a Particular Baptist confession-cum-conversion account entitled The Prodigal Returned, said to have been composed by Hills in 1651 while he served a prison sentence in the Fleet for adultery. I also discuss three accounts of Hills’ high-profile conversion to Catholicism in the mid-1680s, which were authored between 1684 and 1733. The thesis provides a detailed analysis of a conspiracy story, first published in 1697, which posthumously cast Hills as a key player in a bibliographical scandal that is said to have taken place in 1649. I also pay close attention to Hills’ last will and testament, a document that spawned a number of very public legal contestations amongst members of the Hills family. Through a close, historicised reading of these materials, this thesis adds new discussions of the way in which Hills was read and contested by his contemporaries, later historians, and bibliographers, and throughout I retain a sense of the highly mediated nature of the evidence we use to reconstruct Hills biographically, while stressing his importance in the cultural imagination of the period.

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal. / Pour respecter les droits d'auteur, la version électronique de cette thèse ou ce mémoire a été dépouillée, le cas échéant, de ses documents visuels et audio-visuels. La version intégrale de la thèse ou du mémoire a été déposée au Service de la gestion des documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

I joined the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) in the spring of 2004 and immediately assumed the position of VASTA Archive Cataloguist. I began to sort and file the history of the organization, as it existed. I worked on the archive project for almost a year before I stumbled onto a second project. In discovering something missing from the VASTA Archive, I began devising a plan to collect stories to flesh out the existing materials. They will be called the "VASTA Stories". In my two years of service to VASTA - as archive cataloguist, and now as archivist - I have worked to develop a system of organization for the existing materials, a catalogue system to document the archive's contents, as well as a system for the collection of new materials. My involvement in VASTA, and the inspiration for these projects, comes from Kate Ufema and Janet Rodgers - both past-presidents of VASTA.

Este trabalho tem como fundamentação a teoria do Letramento na perspectiva de Leda Verdiani Tfouni e, também, a Análise do Discurso Pecheuxtiana. O trabalho confere-se na busca de um olhar sobre autoria e letramento nas produções orais, na Educação Infantil, a fim de refletir, teoricamente, acerca dos conceitos de linguagem, escrita, leitura, autoria e as práticas pedagógicas no cotidiano escolar. Com base nessas considerações, o trabalho objetiva investigar se as práticas de letramento, observadas em uma escola municipal de Educação Infantil, proporcionam aos sujeitos-alunos o acesso ao arquivo, tal como entendido por Pêcheux, e, mediante o arquivo, a assunção da autoria. Para isso, foi realizada uma coleta de dados, por meio de dez visitas semanais a uma escola pública de Educação Infantil, situada em Cajuru, cidade da região de Ribeirão Preto, onde foram realizadas observações dos sujeitos-escolares no processo de construção dos sentidos, no interior da sala de aula. Com base nas análises, constatamos que quando os sujeitos-alunos são submetidos ao discurso pedagógico do tipo autoritário, conforme a concepção de Orlandi, segundo a qual ocorre uma interdição aos sentidos e o silêncio impera, a autoria não vigora, tampouco o acesso e a constituição do arquivo. Todavia, quando na sala de aula circulam várias possibilidades de interpretação e os sujeitos podem identificar-se, ou não, com determinados sentidos, quando a subjetividade tem espaço e quando o arquivo é trabalhado com os sujeitos-alunos, a autoria desde a mais tenra idade e os anos escolares iniciais manifesta-se nas produções discursivas / This work is based on the theory of Literacy from the perspective of Leda Verdiani Tfouni, and also of the pecheuxtian Discourse Analysis. The work is based on the search for a view at authorship and literacy in oral productions, in order to theoretically reflect on the concepts of language, writing, reading, authorship and pedagogical practices in school everyday. Based on these considerations, the work aims to investigate if the literacy practices in a municipal school of Early Childhood Education, which, on several occasions, enables the access of the subject-students to the archive, like Pêcheux understood, and by the archive, the authorship. To this end, a data collection was carried out, through ten weekly visits to a public school of Early Childhood Education, located in the region of Ribeirão Preto, where observations of the subject-students were made in the process of construction of the meanings, inside the classroom. Based on the analysis, we have observed that when the subject-students are submitted to the authoritarian pedagogical discourse, like understood by Orlandi, occurs an interdiction to the meanings and an injunction in saying or silence, the authorship does not apply. However, when in the classroom circulates many possibilities of interpretation and the subjects can identify themselves, or not, with certain meanings, when the subjectivity has space and when the archive is elaborated with the subject-students, the authorship manifests itself at an early age in the discoursive productions in the Early Childhood Education

This research project falls under the broader Apartheid Archives Project. The aim of the project was to collect the narratives of black and white South Africans, of their earliest quotidian or everyday racist experiences. This project focused particularly on the nature of the experiences of racism of (particularly ‘ordinary’) white South Africans under the old apartheid order and their continuing effects on individual and group functioning in contemporary South Africa, especially on the ways in which white South Africans are positioned by racialised discourses and the reproduction of power relations through these positions. The project utilised narratives that were written by white South Africans and were available on the Apartheid Archive Project’s database. In total, the narratives of twelve white, middle-aged, middle class South Africans were analysed using Parker (1992) and Willig’s (2008) guidelines for analysis of the discourses which converge with Foucault’s ideas. This research report gives prominence to the discourses of race present in the narratives of white South Africans which were examined and it also focuses on how racialised discourses offer the narrators different subject positions to occupy in present day South Africa. Three discursive themes were identified, namely rationalising discursive strategies, race and racism discourses and discourses of redemption. Rationalising discursive strategies were found to utilise discourses of innocence, discourses of denial and discourses that avoid complicity. These discourses enabled the narrators to be positioned as victims. Race and racism discourses included othering discourses, discourses of whiteness and discourses of interracial relationships. Through an appeal to these kinds of discourses narrators were able to occupy opposing positions, such as perpetrator, hero, privileged and non-racial. Finally, discourses of redemption were also found to be prominent in the narratives. These comprised of religious discourses and notions of white liberalism. The utilisation of such discourses enabled constructions of the narrators as moral, virtuous and honest.