Research in the Archival Multiverse

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When Anne Gilliland and Sue McKemmish edited the special 2004 double issue of Archival Science on archival research methods, it was clear that the articles included in the issue only provided the first tantalising glimpse of the complex and wide-ranging work that had begun to emerge in archival and recordkeeping scholarship since the early 1990s.In their own article in that issue, Gilliland and McKemmish outlined several factors that had contributed to this expansion in scholarship.These included the growth in doctoral education, forums for presenting and publishing research, the numbers and size of graduate archival education programs, availability of diverse funding for research, transdisciplinary and international research collaborations, and application of innovative research methods and tools appropriate for investigating increasingly complex and wide-ranging research questions.The double issue rapidly became a touchstone for research design in archival and recordkeeping programs.However, the editors were aware from the start that something much more comprehensive was needed, hence the idea for this book.Gilliland and McKemmish, together with co-editor Andrew Lau, sought to put together a volume that would be authored not only by some of the most influential scholars of our time, but also by some of the best and brightest of new scholars emerging in the field.The Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) 1 provided rich grounds for Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Simmons College.AERI has also received significant in-kind support from universities elsewhere in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, especially Monash University in Melbourne.See https://aeri.website.2 We have used the term 'evidentiary texts' here to be inclusive of records as they exist in multiple cultural contexts (i.e., the societal record), because the term 'records' could be read as pertaining only to institutional/bureaucratic forms of recordkeeping. 3 AERI Pluralizing the Archival Curriculum Group (PACG)."Educating for the Archival Multiverse," American Archivist 74 no.1 (Spring/Summer 2011): 69-102, quote p. 73. 4 See Anne J. Gilliland and Sue McKemmish, "Introduction" and "Building an Infrastructure for Archival

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