1. Questions of Location, Ownership and Interpretation Funded by a grant from www.diasporicarchives.com

2. Leverhulme International Network Università di Pavia Fondo Manoscritti Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collecting Institutions in Trinidad & Tobago Archivists Literary Agents AuthorsManuscript Dealers UNESCO Academics Society of Authors Biographers Librarians Publishers

3. Publishers’ Archives Contracts (including financial arrangements) Editorial comments Correspondence Sales figures Published material Different models for providing finance for storage, cataloguing and providing access Users want open accessDepositors may have privacy concerns

4. Collecting Literary Archives ICA Universal Declaration of Archives Collecting Strategies: Availability Value Hub and spoke Joint acquisitions

5. Authors’ Papers Location Registers of English Literary Manuscripts What has been collected & where it is housed Establishment of International Location Register What makes an archive valuable? Importance of keeping authors’ papers together context What is an archive’s research potential? Agents Control over use of papers living authors & estates Information for authors on maintaining their own literary manuscripts What to keep How to realise value Practical information relating to born-digital files passwords, type of media

6. Born-Digital Literary Archives Professional Expertise Important not to overplay the technical aspects of working with born-digital archives Collection Development and Appraisal Hybrid archives: paper & born-digital material Intellectual and monetary value of archives important to dealers, agents, and archivists Access: Description and Outreach Onsite vs. Offsite access Incorporating born-digital material in finding aids Need to promote digital archives to users Preservation Ongoing custodianship (including storage) Authenticity, reliability, and accuracy Upcoming Conferences UNESCO The Memory of the World in the Digital Age, Vancouver, Canada, September, 26- 28, 2012 Diasporic Literary Archives, Final Conference, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, September 2014

7. Actions & Projects International Location Register Starting with partner collections Support Providing a support mechanism to preservation projects in Grenada, Trinidad and Namibia Information Sheet Development of information sheet for authors regarding the cultural importance of preserving their literary papers Copyright protection information Linking to other networks & literary centres Working with UNESCO Possibility of ICA hosting Diasporic Literary Archives website content post-2014

8. Future Workshops Centro Manoscritti, Università di Pavia – February 28-March 1, 2013 Examining Split Collections Examples of Cooperation/Collaboration with split collections Exchange of copies – photocopies/digital copies Correspondence Artificial collections eg. Biographers’ archives Questions of copyright l’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC) – May 30-31, 2013 The stakes of public/private ownership Publishers Business archives Society archives Copyright Increasing access to privately held archives Francophone archives from outside France

9. Future Workshops Trinidad & Tobago – Early 2014 The Politics of Location Collecting strategies & policies Appropriate locations for archives Cooperation between institutions Different types of collecting institutions Authors’ wishes The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University – Autumn 2014 Diaspora & Possibilities for Digitization Extending digital archives Archival practices - AIMS Ethical perspective Valuation Collections of emails Authenticity Digitization of paper archives Training for users of born-digital material Digital forensics Potential for shared ownership Costs Open source vs. closed access archives

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