Session 6A from Day 1 stream 3 'Authenticity in Places of Belonging' By Belinda Battley.
Belinda is a Senior Archivist at Archives NZ in Auckland, and a member of the ARANZ National Council.
Removing records from communities without taking these elements into account is akin to colonisation, and assumes our recordkeeping methods are superior to the community's existing systems. It constructs barriers between the community and its records, and removes much of the context of the records. Authenticity of records in communities is determined by the community itself. The records are embedded in the community's processes and places of belonging. This paper discusses the elements of complex, adaptive recordkeeping systems in communities, and the implications for archivists and archival institutions. The consequence of collecting can contribute to societal discrimination and dysfunction through the impact of removal of records of collective memory from vulnerable communities.
Recorded by Alan Milne in Astral 3, Crown Perth, Burswood WA, on Wednesday 26 September 2018 as part of ASA 2018 'Archives in a Blade Runner Age- Identity & Memory, Evidence & Accountability'
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