Is there an archivist in the sim?: Literacy as agency in a postpositivist, mixed media virtual theatre archive

Jennifer Roberts-Smith; Kathryn Harvey; Shawn Desouza-Coelho; Teresa M. Dobson; Sandra Gabriele; Alexandra Kovacs; Omar Rodriguez-Arenas; Stan Ruecker; Stéfan Sinclair

doi:10.3138/ctr.156.008

Is there an archivist in the sim? Literacy as agency in a postpositivist, mixed media virtual theatre archive

Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Kathryn Harvey, Shawn Desouza-Coelho, Teresa M. Dobson, Sandra Gabriele, Alexandra Kovacs, Omar Rodriguez-Arenas, Stan Ruecker, Stéfan Sinclair

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Abstract

As non-specialist researchers gain increasingly direct online access to digital and digitized theatre archives, archivists can no longer expect to be able to provide essential, post-positivist archival literacy training to individual researchers on a case-by-case basis. Archival literacy training must now be embedded directly into the design archives' online interfaces. In this paper, we make some preliminary suggestions about how the University of Guelph's L. W. Conolly Archive of Canadian Theatre may approach this challenge using the Simulated Environment for Theatre (SET) as a platform for interacting with its holdings. We illustrate our argument with artefacts related to Judith Thompson's White Biting Dog.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	40-45
Number of pages	6
Journal	Canadian Theatre Review
Volume	156
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.156.008
State	Published - Jan 1 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

archival literacy
digital archives
theatre archives
theatre pedagogy
visualization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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