Contrapuntal archival methods

  • Michael Jones

Abstract

As a post-custodial research archivist I have worked in many contexts, from projects involving major archival institutions, governments and universities through to advising and training people working at the other end of the scale, in small archives, single room collections and inadequately resourced community or religious organisations. Similarly, I have collaborated with many archivists, from senior figures in large collecting institutions and established academics to part-time, casual, unfunded and accidental archivists, and people responsible for archival collections who do not consider themselves ‘archivists’ at all.

Author Biography

Michael Jones

Michael Jones is a Senior Research Archivist with the University of Melbourne’s eScholarship Research Centre and Lead Archivist on the Find & Connect Web Resource Project. Since starting at the Centre in 2008 he has worked on numerous paper-based and digital archival projects, and with academics, government departments, and arts and community organisations to explore the potential of structured informatic systems to support organisational and public knowledge.

Published
2014-07-30
How to Cite
Jones M. (2014) “Contrapuntal archival methods”, Archives & Manuscripts, 42(2), pp. 184-186. doi: 10.1080/01576895.2014.911684.