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

4. 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

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

6. Authors’ Papers Location Registers of English Literary Manuscripts What has been collected & where it is housed Establishment of Directory of Diasporic Literary Archives 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

7. Digital Archives & Digitization Purchasing & Financial Valuation Sellers must know the content of what they are selling Archives may include paper & born-digital material Accessibility of digital files Questions of authenticity Archivists & Born-Digital Archives Important not to overplay the technical aspects of working with born-digital archives Online access may not be a priority Listing born-digital material in finding aids Need to promote digital archives to users Finding Tools Balance users’ desire for more information with costs of providing it Standardisation of description Storage Need to maintain digital material in current format Transfer timetables UNESCO The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation Conference Vancouver, Canada, September 26-28, 2012

8. Actions & Projects Directory of Diasporic Literary Archives 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

9. 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

10. 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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