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The Realities and Practices in the UK’s Community Archives Movement

  • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
  • 2013, (37), pp.3-39
  • Publisher : Korean Society Of Archival Studies
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Lee, Kyong Rae 1 Lee, Kwang Suk 1

1서울과학기술대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze the present stage of community archives movement in the UK. By doing so, it draws some implications of the UK case for the community archives movement in Korea. The UK’s ‘Independent’ community archives as a part of grassroots movement are characterized by participation, autonomy, and self-help of community members. Along with the appearance of the concept of ‘community’, the UK has experienced the revitalization period of community archives in the social context of community-based urban regeneration project. Recently, the UK’s community archives have transformed themselves into building a ‘governance model’ relying on the partnership with mainstream archives. In particular, the UK model of community archives is based ‘on their own ways’ with their autonomy as a product of intrinsic development initiated by communities themselves. The character of the model of this type is very analogous to the nature of maul’ community archives movement in Korea. Since the early 2000s, however, the UK model of community archives has been evolving into a way of building governance through their appropriation of the skills and methodologies from mainstream archives without endangering the autonomous essences of community archives themselves. We need to note the point of local researchers’ view in archival science who have tried to seek out the methodology for building maul community archives with regard to openness and collaboration. In this respect, a shift in archival principle in the UK would give significant implications in regenerating the locally based community model.

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