Introduction to Trauma-Informed Archival Practice


Open Access Journal Articles and Reports

 

Arroyo-Ramírez, Elvia. “Radical Empathy in the Context of Suspended Grief: An Affective Web of Mutual Loss,” in “Radical Empathy in Archival Practice,” eds. Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, Jasmine Jones, Shannon O’Neill, and Holly Smith. Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 3, no. 2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v3i2.134

Caswell, Michelle and Cifor, Marika 'Neither A Beginning Nor An End: Applying An Ethics of Care to Digitizing Archival Collections (2019) in The Routledege International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites (2019) pp. 10  https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429506765


Douglas, Jennifer et al ‘Treat them with the Reverence of Archivists’: Records Work, Grief Work and Relationship Work in the Archives’ Archivaria 88 (2019) https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13699/15097

Douglas, Jennifer, Alexandra Alisauskas, Elizabeth Bassett, Noah Duranseaud, Ted Lee, and Christina Mantey “‘These Are Not Just Pieces of Paper’: Acknowledging Grief and Other Emotions in Pursuit of Person-Centered Archives”, Archives & Manuscripts 50 (1) (2022) 5-29. https://doi.org/10.37683/asa.v50.10211

Douglas, Jennifer, Mya Ballin, and Jessica Lapp. 2022. “Introduction”. Archivaria 94 Special Issue - Towards Person-Centred Archival Theory and Praxis (December), 5-21. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13861.


Laurent, N. & Hart, M. (2018). “Emotional Labor and Archival Practice - Reflection”. Journal of the Society of North Carolina Archivists, 15, pp.13-22, http://www.ncarchivists.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/jsnca_vol15_laurent-hart-1.pdf

Laurent, N. & Wright, K. (2020). “A trauma-informed approach to managing archives: a new online course”. Archives and Manuscripts, 48 (1), pp.80-87, https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2019.1705170, full text available https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/233959

Laurent, N. & Hart, M. (2020). “Building a trauma-informed community of practice”. Education for Information, 37 (1), pp.1-6. https://doi.org/10.3233/efi-190363, full text available https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/265868

Laurent, Nicola, Cate O’Neill, and Kirsten Wright. 2022. “Convenient Fires and Floods and Impossible Archival Imaginaries: Describing the Missing Records of Children’s Institutions”. Archivaria 94 (December), 94-119. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13867.

Laurent, Nicola and Wright, Kirsten, ‘Safety, Collaboration and Empowerment Trauma Informed Archival Practice’, Archivaria (2021) 38-71  https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13787.

Wright Kirsten and Laurent Nicola, https://www.ica.org/en/understanding-the-international-landscape-of-trauma-and-archives-report

 

Lomas, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Shepherd, Victoria Hoyle, Anna Sexton, and Andrew Flinn. 2022. “A Framework for Person-Centred Recordkeeping Drawn through the Lens of Out-of-Home Child-Care Contexts”. Archivaria 94 (December), 64-93. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13865.

Regehr, Cheryl, Wendy Duff, Henria Aton & Christa Sato 'Grief and Trauma in the Archives', Journal of Loss and Trauma (2023) https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2022.2164143
Regehr, Cheryl Wendy Duff, Henria Aton & Christa Sato (2022) “Humans and records are entangled”: empathic engagement and emotional response in archivists, Archival Science 22 (2022) 563–583  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-022-09392-5

 

Sloan, K, Vanderfluit, J and Douglas, J (2019). “Not 'Just My Problem to Handle': Emerging Themes on Secondary Trauma and Archivists”. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, Vol 6, Article 20, https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol6/iss1/20/ 

Thorpe, K and Willis, C (2019). “Aboriginal Histories in Australia Government Archives: Working with Records of Trauma”. Acid Free, https://www.laacollective.org/work/aboriginal-histories-in-australia-government-archives/


Tropea, Rachel and Georgina Ward. “Fierce Compassion and Reflexivity: Transforming Practice at the University of Melbourne Archives,” in “Radical Empathy in Archival Practice,” eds. Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, Jasmine Jones, Shannon O’Neill, and Holly Smith. Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 3, no. 2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v3i2.121


Weber, G (2019). “Gratitude in the Archives”. Garland Magazine, https://garlandmag.com/article/gratitude-in-the-archives/

 

Blogs

 
Catherine Barnwell & Jacinthe Pepin, 'What can archivists learn from person-centred nursing care? A conversation between a nurse and an archivist, Association of Canadian Archivists Blog November 22;  https://archivists.ca/Blog/12998216

Jennifer Douglas et al., Hard Feelings: on the intimate and emotional dimensions of archival work (blog), https://blogs.ubc.ca/hardfeelings/

 Katherine Schlesinger, Trauma-Informed Archives: Preparing the Next Generation of People-Centred Archivists, Association of Canadian Archivists Blog, 6 December 2022 https://archivists.ca/Blog/13015427


Online Talks

 Society of American Archivists: Crisis Disaster and Tragedy Response Working Group, Understanding the Need for Trauma-Informed Practice in Archives Talk - Kirsten Wright and Nicola Laurent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N90yAKr0rcA

 Archiving Disaster Support Group Records: A Guide for Support Groups and Professionals  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQgk8zP1-6Q

 

Training

 Australian Society of Archivists A Trauma Informed Approach to Managing Archives

https://www.archivists.org.au/events/event/a-trauma-informed-approach-to-managing-archives