Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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Archival Explorations Session Chair: Vivianne Asturizaga | |
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Collaboration in Practice: Activating Archives through a Musicology–Library Partnership University of Toronto Scarborough How can working across disciplinary boundaries increase digital access to, and community engagement with, audiovisual archives? This paper, co-presented by a musicologist and two librarians, describes a collaboration to activate a large audiovisual archive and argues that multifaceted transdisciplinary collaborations can support sustainable research infrastructures that themselves serve multiple purposes. While community-centered archives often foreground unexplored histories (Sheffield 2017; Hall 2001) and interactive electronic archives may serve as a “basis of collective memory” (Appadurai 2003, 18), building the necessary public-facing infrastructures requires material resources and specialized skills. We describe the creation of a bilingual open access online portal and digital archive to provide curated access to the Fonds Jean Trudel collection (150+ hours of audio/video, 2000+ digital objects), which has been certified by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board as of outstanding significance for Canadian history and national life. Following Barwick (2019), who distinguishes between archivists, end users, and “knowledge holders,” where the latter are deeply embedded in the community with which an archive is associated, we demonstrate that, in the case of the Fonds Jean Trudel, a musicology-library partnership has created the necessary infrastructure to allow the musicologist to move beyond preservation, organization, and documentation to community-oriented transmission and dissemination, or what Seeger and Chaudhuri (2015) call the “collaborative archiving of community traditions” (25). Each library is responsible for documenting and sustaining the communities it serves, their material conditions and their histories (Lankes 2011; Kisilowska-Szurmińska et al. 2024) even as digital dissemination may obscure the local contexts of knowledge production. The Fonds Jean Trudel advances this mandate by ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of a faculty member’s research, embedding experiential learning for students in the information professions, expanding multilingual and audiovisual capacity within the library’s shared Islandora-based infrastructure, and strengthening partnerships with allied memory institutions to sustain the circulation of carefully curated, human-produced knowledge (Rothman 2024). We propose faculty-library collaboration as a means of working within university structures to create meaningful and sustained community engagement with archives, reconnecting recordings to the communities where they were made and sharing them with a wider public. | |