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Book launch event for Archival Pedagogies, out now from Litwin Books / Library Juice Press.
Please note: This is the second of two book launch events. The first part is available here. Be sure to watch both to see more authors.
About the Book
Archival pedagogy – the teaching of archival knowledge and skills – is practiced worldwide but remains under-examined in the scholarly and professional literature of archival studies.
What might we learn about, and how might we deepen our practice in archival pedagogy if there was more international exchange on the topic? That question drove the compilation of Archival Pedagogies, a new edited collection that brings together some of the leading archival educators from across the globe, with an equally international editorial team and editorial board, to explore the frameworks, methods, contents and challenges of teaching record keepers and records users.
Presenter Info
Brigit Kibal
Birgit Kibal graduated from the University of Tartu as a historian in 1999. Since then, she has been working as an archivist at the Estonian National Archives, having been a senior official (communications manager) since 2004 and currently serving as the head of foreign affairs. She closely collaborates in the field of Estonian archival education with colleagues from the Department of Archival Studies of the Institute of History and Archaeology of the University of Tartu. She has held the position of President of ICARUS – International Centre for Archival Studies since May 2023, having been a member of the board since 2017.
Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak
Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). She defended her doctoral thesis in history with specialization in archives in 2018. Her research interests include community archives and research methods in archival science. She authored many publications, including a monograph, on Polish community archives and managed two research projects on this subject. She works closely with the Center for Community Archives (Warsaw) and is involved in international cooperation in archival research and education.
Adam Kriesberg
Adam Kriesberg is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts. His research and teaching interests involve archives, digital preservation, government records, research data management, information policy, and preservation of social media. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan School of Information and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Agricultural Data Curation at the US Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library and the University of Maryland, College Park, through a Cooperative Agreement before joining the Simmons faculty. A 2016-17 Research Data Alliance/US (RDA) Data Share Fellow, his work has been published in scholarly venues including Archival Science, JASIS&T, The American Archivist, Data Science Journal, and Library Trends.
Laura Csonka
Laura Csonka is a historian, an archival educator and a consultant for museum pedagogy. She holds a PhD in History. She is working in the Hungarian National Archives of Hungary as the head of archival education and publishes regularly on the subject, besides leading courses, workshops and giving university seminars. As a historian, her research focuses primarily on the era of the Hungarian Arrow Cross party (1944-1945) and on the history of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.