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Mit dem Quellenrepertorium der Werke Rilkes als Schnittstelle von Archiv, Forschung und Edition wird erstmals ein systematisches Verzeichnis aller weltweit bekannten und zugänglichen Werk­manuskripte Rilkes vorgestellt. Mit der Verzeichnung der materiellen Träger aus dem Prozess von Rilkes Werkproduktion liegt eine maßgebliche Grundlage für die textkritische und forschungs­bezogene Aufarbeitung des Nachlassmate­rials vor. Die Beschreibung einschlägiger Merkmale der Materialien, die Darstellung der Entstehungszusammenhänge und die Dokumentation von Provenienzen der insgesamt 336 Textzeugen (Einzelgedichte, Werkkomplexe, Sammelhandschriften), die etwa 1.200 Werke dokumentieren, bieten durch ihre Detailfülle zentrale Anknüpfungspunkte für die künftige Rilke-Forschung. Ergänzt wird das Repertorium durch einen umfangreichen Anhang, der u.a. auch Auktionskataloge und Wasserzeichen der von Rilke verwendeten Papiere dokumentiert sowie ein umfangreiches Werkregister liefert, das über 2.000 Einzelwerke Rilkes erfasst. Durch Erstellung und Kommentierung der Werkchronologie, die wesentliche Elemente der Quellen- und Werkprovenienz abbildet, wird zugleich der überlieferungsgeschichtliche Charakter des Quellenrepertoriums als Archivpublikation deutlich gemacht. Der einführende methodische Teil des Buches stellt u.a. konzeptionelle Überlegungen zur Gattung des Quellenrepertoriums als Instrumentarium der archivarischen und bibliographischen Verzeichnung an und erörtert Strategien und Verfahren für die Erarbeitung eines solchen Repertoriums. Durch seine Anschlussfähigkeit für neue Textzeugen kann das Quellenrepertorium der Werke Rilkes als Modell für die Gestaltung zukünftiger Repertorien dienen.

Was ist (k)eine Krise? Der neue Band der »Sichtungen« beleuchtet unterschiedliche Aspekte von Krise und Konflikt anhand von Archivquellen aus dem schriftstellerischen und künstlerischen Kontext. »Ich habe keine ›Krisen‹ und schon gar keine Schreibkrise«, schrieb Ingeborg Bachmann an ihren Therapeuten in den 1960er-Jahren. Was aber ist (k)eine Krise? Pandemien, politische Konfliktherde und wirtschaftliche Turbulenzen sind Beispiele für große, weltumfassende Umwälzungen, die uns nicht nur im 21. Jahrhundert konstant begleiten. Dieser Band der Reihe »Sichtungen« des Literaturarchivs der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek und der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus bildet unterschiedliche Aspekte zum Themenkomplex Krise und Konflikt anhand von archivalischen Materialien ab. Dazu gehören Auseinandersetzungen zu individuellen und kollektiven Erfahrungen von Angst, Verlust und Verdrängung, institutionelle Verwerfungen wie auch Strategien zur Überwindung eines ›Ausnahmezustandes‹. Die Beispiele reichen von einem Gelehrtenkonflikt im 19. Jahrhundert über eine 1928 in Wien gegründete »Lebensmüdenstelle« zur Suizidprävention bis zu (Schreib-)Krisen bei Hermann Hesse, Werner Kofler und Brigitte Schwaiger. Strategien der Bewältigung finden sich etwa bei Elise Richter und Adolf Holl. Dem bislang verkannten ›Krisenkünstler‹ Karl Wiener wird in einem »Intermezzo« ein besonderer Platz eingeräumt. In bewährter Manier setzen sich auch Schriftsteller*innen reflexiv wie kreativ mit der Thematik auseinander. Für diesen Band: Valerie Fritsch, Franz Schuh, Marlene Streeruwitz und Daniel Wisser.

Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerging scholars in archival studies, Disputed Archival Heritage extends and enriches the conversation that started with the earlier volume, Displaced Archives. Advancing novel theories and methods for understanding disputes and claims over archives, the volume includes chapters that focus on Indigenous records in settler colonial states; literary and community archives; sub-national and private sector displacements; successes in repatriating formerly displaced archives; comparisons with cultural objects seized by colonial powers and the relationship between repatriation and reparations. Analysing key concepts such as joint heritage and provenance, the contributors unsettle Western understandings of records, place and ownership. Disputed Archival Heritage speaks to the growing interest in shared archival heritage, repatriation of cultural artefacts and cultural diasporas. As such, it will be a useful resource for academics, students and practitioners working in the field of archives, records and information management, as well as cultural property and heritage management, peace and conflict studies and international law.

In this anthology, top scholars researching libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) issues in Scandinavia explore pressing issues for contemporary LAMs.In recent decades, relations between libraries, archives, and museums have changed rapidly: collections have been digitized; books, documents, and objects have been mixed in new ways; and LAMs have picked up new tasks in response to external changes. Libraries now host makerspaces and literary workshops, archives fight climate change and support indigenous people, and museums are used as instruments for economic growth and urban planning. At first glance, the described changes may appear as a divergent development, where the LAMs are growing apart. However, this book demonstrates that the present transformation of LAMs is primarily a convergent development.Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners seeking to get on top of the LAM literature or the particularities of Scandinavian LAMs.

Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines archives in Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, India, Iceland, Jamaica, Malawi, The Philippines, Scotland, Turkey and the United States. Making a clear link between autocratic regimes and the failure to record often horrendous crimes against humanity, the volume demonstrates that the failure of governments to create records, or to allow access to records, appears to be universal. Arguing that this helps to establish a hegemonic narrative that excludes the ‘other’, this book showcases the actions historians and archivists have taken to ensure that gaps in archives are filled. Yet the book also claims that silences in archives are inevitable and argues not only that recordkeeping should be mandated by international courts and bodies, but that we need to develop other ways of reading archives broadly conceived to compensate for absences.Archival Silences addresses fundamental issues of access to the written record around the world. It is directed at those with a concern for social justice, particularly scholars and students of archival studies, history, sociology, international relations, international law, business administration and information science.

Urgent Archives argues that archivists can and should do more to disrupt white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy beyond the standard liberal archival solutions of more diverse collecting and more inclusive description.Grounded in the emerging field of critical archival studies, this book uncovers how dominant western archival theories and practices are oppressive by design, while looking toward the the radical politics of community archives to envision new liberatory theories and practices. Based on more than a decade of ethnography at community archives sites including the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA), the book explores how members of minoritized communities activate records to build solidarities across and within communities, trouble linear progress narratives, and disrupt cycles of oppression. Caswell explores the temporal, representational, and material aspects of liberatory memory work, arguing that archival disruptions in time and space should be neither about the past nor the future, but about the liberatory affects and effects of memory work in the present.Urgent Archives extends the theoretical range of critical archival studies and provides a new framework for archivists looking to transform their practices. The book should also be of interest to scholars of archival studies, museum studies, public history, memory studies, gender and ethnic studies and digital humanities.

Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making and record-keeping practices across the world. It investigates the ways in which human activities have been recorded in different settings using different methods and technologies.Based on an in-depth analysis of literature from a wide range of disciplines, including prehistory, archaeology, Assyriology, Egyptology, and Chinese and Mesoamerican studies, the book reflects the latest and most relevant historical scholarship. Drawing upon the author’s experience as a practitioner and scholar of records and archives and his extensive knowledge of archival theory and practice, the book embeds its account of the beginnings of recording practices in a conceptual framework largely derived from archival science. Unique both in its breadth of coverage and in its distinctive perspective on early record-making and record-keeping, the book provides the only updated and synoptic overview of early recording practices available worldwide.Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students engaged in the study of archival science, archival history, and the early history of human culture. The book will also appeal to practitioners of archives and records management interested in learning more about the origins of their profession.