Appraisal is need of re-appraisal: reflections on “Confronting Jenkinson’s canon: reimagining the ‘destruction and selection of modern archives’ through the Auditor-General of South Africa’s financial audit trail”

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Notes

1. Bak, “Counterweight.”

2. Cook, “Mind Over Matter,” p. 125; and Booms, “Society and the Formation of a Documentary Heritage,” p. 104.

3. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Final Report; National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Legal Analysis of Genocide.

4. Acland, “Archivist,” p. 13.

5. Bastian, Owning Memory.

6. Flinn, Stevens and Shepherd, “Whose Memories, Whose Archives?”; Cifor, “Affecting Relations”; and Caswell, “Dusting for Fingerprints.”

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Greg Bak

Greg Bak is an Associate Professor of Archival Studies in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba. His teaching and research focus on archival decolonization, digital archives and the history of digital culture. His recent publications include the article “Counterweight: Helen Samuels, Archival Decolonization and Social License” in The American Archivist and the book All Shook Up: The Archival Legacy of Terry Cook, which he co-edited with Tom Nesmith and Joan Schwartz. Before coming to Manitoba in 2011, Greg was a Senior Digital Archivist at Library and Archives Canada.