Section update
- Don’t forget to join us for the next installment of the College and University Archive’s section’s Coffee Chat series, in partnership with the Privacy and Confidentiality section!
Title: Access to Federal Law Enforcement Records at Non-Federal Public Institutions: Balancing Custody, Privacy, Records Laws, and More
Presenter: Megan K. Friedel
Date: December 7th at 11am MT/12pm CT/1pm ET
Description: What happens when federal law enforcement investigation records end up at public state or local institutions? How can archivists untangle the legal considerations for these documents, in order to both provide access to them and protect the privacy concerns of those who the records document? In this presentation, we’ll explore a model for how archivists can assess key issues for these records, such as federal and state records laws, custodianship, reputational risks, and privacy concerns not protected by law, with an aim towards research access and use.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://ksu.zoom.us/j/98671403061?pwd=bkM1N01WSHlZNWpVZmE4UW1HSWM0QT09
Meeting ID: 986 7140 3061
Passcode: 187432
News and resources roundup
- Bangham, Jenny. “New Meanings in the Archive: Privacy, Technological Change and the Status of Sources.” Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte / History of Science and Humanities 45, no. 3 (2022): 499-507. https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202200027
- Chumko, André. “Online access to Archives’ records removed after potential privacy breach.” Stuff, November 16, 2022. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130489659/online-access-to-archives-records-removed-after-potential-privacy-breach
- The Hive Mind program series will be a periodic, 1 hour, unrecorded Zoom meetup open to all that focuses on an issue or topic that participants can use to frame practices in order to advocate within their institutions. Meetups will be an informal discussion around specific topic areas, moderated by SAA’s Issues & Advocacy Section steering committee members. If there are topics you would like to see discussed during one of these sessions please email us at archivesissues@gmail.com.
To kick off the Hive Mind program series, Issues & Advocacy Section members will be leading a discussion around how to advocate for ethical digitization practices in your institution on Thursday, December 15th from 2-3pm EST (1-2pm CT/12-1pm MT/11-12pm PST). Join Zoom meeting: rit.zoom.us/j/97231072975
Questions we plan to discuss include:- How are you framing your practices to protect the privacy of subjects?
- What legal and ethical challenges have you encountered and worked around?
- How do you balance contributing factors of climate change into your digitization outputs and goals?
- How are archivists/institutions structuring digitization positions in ways that support sustainability of digital projects and ethical treatment of archival workers
- Relatedly, what is the impact of off-shore data farming on vulnerable populations, such as in countries experiencing country-wide violence and/or infrastructure and economic instability, where income from data work comes with power/manipulation issues.
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