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AERI as a Catalyst for Archival Doctoral Education

  • Sarah A. Buchanan

    Sarah A. Buchanan is a doctoral candidate in Information Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also an archivist at the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) in the Department of Classics. Her research interests include arrangement and description in archival studies, provenance, digital humanities, and museum archaeology. Her dissertation examines archaeological curation as a continuum of practice.

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Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture
From the journal Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture Volume 45 Issue 1

Abstract

The Archival Education & Research Institutes (AERI) have created a generation of scholars more engaged with research in archives and information than ever before. AERI has fostered international collaborations and collegiality among emerging and established scholars of archival studies since 2009. Members of the community have been successful and have shared in the success of others, and this interconnectivity has raised the caliber and expanded the impact of archival scholarship. This essay, drawing on the author’s experiences, discusses how three components of the AERI program have catalyzed doctoral education in archival studies: scholarship, community, and pedagogy.

Keywords: Graduate Education; Archival Studies; Library and Information Science; Information Studies; Professional Archivists

Funding source: Institute of Museum and Library Services

Award Identifier / Grant number: RE-02-08-0008-08

Award Identifier / Grant number: RE-02-11-0032-11

Funding statement: This research was generously supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), grant numbers RE-02-08-0008-08 and RE-02-11-0032-11.

About the author

Sarah A. Buchanan

Sarah A. Buchanan is a doctoral candidate in Information Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also an archivist at the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) in the Department of Classics. Her research interests include arrangement and description in archival studies, provenance, digital humanities, and museum archaeology. Her dissertation examines archaeological curation as a continuum of practice.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Joshua Sternfeld, Ellen-Rae Cachola, Meghan Poepping, Kathy Carbone, and most especially my advisors Anne Gilliland and Patricia Galloway for making these experiences possible.

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Appendix 1: AERI Workshop Topics from 2009 to 2015

Teaching Archives

  1. Distance Education (2010)

  2. Integrating Technology into the Classroom (2010)

  3. Instructional Strategies for Developing Culturally Relevant Curriculum (2011)

  4. Digital Pedagogy: Approaches to Teaching Digital Content (2011)

  5. Strategies for Designing Undergraduate Archival Courses (2012)

  6. Teaching Digital Archives Online (2012)

  7. Archival Access (2014)

Curriculum Development

  1. Curriculum Development in Digital Humanities and Archival Studies (2009)

  2. Digital Curation Curriculum Development (2009)

  3. Developing Culturally Sensitive Curriculum (2009)

  4. Developing a Culturally Sensitive Curriculum, Part II (2010)

  5. Concept Oriented Curriculum (2011)

  6. Integrating Pluralistic Approaches into Archival Curriculum (2012)

  7. Records Continuum (2014)

  8. Workshop on Archival Studies Master’s Degree Curriculum (2015)

Conducting Archival Research

  1. Research Methodologies for Community Engagement (2009)

  2. Ethnographic Methods (2009)

  3. Conducting and Archiving Oral Histories (2009)

  4. Collective Memory Research Methods (2010)

  5. Conducting Archival User Studies (2010)

  6. Conducting Information Retrieval Research in Traditional and Digital Archives (2010)

  7. Selecting Research Methodologies (2011)

  8. Research Methodologies Across Archival Communities (2011)

  9. Coming to Grips with Grounded Theory: A Hands-On Introduction (2012)

  10. Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me Where I Put That!: Research Management Software Demonstration and Discussion (2012)

  11. Social Justice Impact at the Archival Coalface: Researching Frames of Reference and Assessment (2012)

  12. Metadata Models and Modeling Methods (2012)

  13. What Do You Really Mean by That? Deepening the Meaning of Your Data: Discourse and Verbal Data Analysis Workshop (2013)

  14. Big Data, Small Data, and Archives: Future Directions for Archival Research (2013)

  15. Information Culture (2014)

  16. Personal Information Management and Personal Digital Archiving (2015)

Cultural Archives

  1. Archives of Performance / Performing the Archive (2010)

  2. Museums Working with Communities: The Native American Dioramas (2010)

  3. Collective Memory (2011)

  4. Global (re)mix: A Tour of Little Osaka (2012)

  5. Social and Public Art Resource Center (2012)

  6. #BlackLivesMatter @Maryland: The Ferguson Twitter Archive and Using Social Media in Humanities Research (2015)

Archival Practice

  1. A Costing Model for Archives (2009)

  2. Hands on Film (2012)

  3. Cloud Computing and the Post-custodial Archive (2012)

  4. Reimagining Archival Arrangement (2012)

  5. Digital Preservation and Access (2014)

  6. Retooling the Archival Workforce (2015)

Academic Life

  1. Dissertation Proposal Seminar (2010)

  2. Creating the Tenure Package (2010)

  3. Granting Agencies (2010)

  4. Preparing a Tenure Package (2011)

  5. Publishing at Several Levels; Dissertation to Book; Articles, Books, University Presses, Professional Publishers (2011)

  6. Thriving and Surviving as an Assistant Professor (2011)

  7. Grant Writing: An Interactive Workshop (2011)

  8. Collaboration: Student / faculty; Faculty / faculty; Research, Grants, Publications (2011)

  9. Creativity and Passion and Your Scholarly Agenda (2012)

  10. Entering the Job Market: Tips for the Graduating Doctoral Student (2012)

  11. Graduate School Application Workshop (2012)

  12. Building a Collaborative Archival Research Community Workshop (2013)

  13. Research … for Non-Researchers? (2014)

  14. Scholarly Publishing (2014)

  15. Teaching and Faculty Development (2014)

  16. You Don’t Have to Be a Professor: A Workshop Exploring Alternate Career Paths (2015)

Published Online: 2016-5-25
Published in Print: 2016-4-1

© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2016-0001
Keywords for this article
Graduate Education; Archival Studies; Library and Information Science; Information Studies; Professional Archivists

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. From the Editor-in-Chief
  3. From the Editor-in-Chief: Introduction
  4. Articles
  5. Literature and Writers in the Digital Age: A Small-Scale Survey of Contemporary Croatian Writers’ Organization and Preservation Practices
  6. Read by Touch: Stewarding the Reading and Writing Collection at the Perkins School for the Blind
  7. Building the Scholarly Base of a Field: Reflections on 8 Years of the Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI)
  8. AERI as a Catalyst for Archival Doctoral Education
  9. Conversations
  10. Amy E. Ryan
  11. Currents and Comments
  12. Currents and Comments
  13. Erratum
  14. Erratum to: Documenting Pocket Universes: New Approaches to Preserving Online Games
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