CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
9622
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Title:
SpokenWeb AV
Source Collection ID:
ArchiveOfThePresent
Source Collection Description:
SpokenWeb Audio Visual Collection
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SpokenWeb
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
https://archiveofthepresent.spokenweb.ca/_nuxt/img/header-img_1000.fd7675f.png
Series Title:
The SpokenWeb Podcast
Series Description:
Series of podcasts by the SpokenWeb network.
Series Wikidata URL:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117038029
Series URI:
https://spokenweb.ca/podcast/spokenweb-podcast/
Sub Series Title:
SpokenWeb AV
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
SpokenWeb Podcast S3E7, ‘The archive is messy and so are we’: Decoding the Women and Words Collection, 4 April 2022, Mofatt and Sharren
Title Source:
SpokenWeb Podcast web page.
Title Note:
https://spokenweb.ca/podcast/episodes/the-archive-is-messy-and-so-are-we-decoding-the-women-and-words-collection/
Language:
English
Production Context:
Podcast
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution (BY)
License:
Creative Commons Attribution (BY)
CREATORS
Name:
Kate Moffatt
Name:
Kandice Sharren
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
00:46:14
Size:
44,464,214 bytes
Notes:
Mp3 audio
Title:
swp-s3e7-archiveismessy
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Dates
Date:
2022-04-04
Type:
Publication Date
LOCATION
Address:
515 West Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C, V6B 5K3
Venue:
Simon Fraser University
Latitude:
49.2824032
Longitude:
-123.1085513
CONTENT
Contents:
Simon Fraser University’s Special Collections and Rare Books holds the rich Women and Words Collection, which contains more than one hundred recordings from the Women and Words Conference in 1983, a decade of WestWord writing retreats and workshops, and a number of other readings, meetings, workshops, and events. Although the audio in this collection has a significant paper archive to accompany it, the absence of pre-existing metadata made it difficult to identify the recordings. This episode is framed by how two research assistants, Kandice Sharren and Kate Moffatt, encountered the collection—one physically, in the archive, and the other solely with digitized audio recordings and scanned print materials—and takes us behind-the-scenes of their work to make sense of both its depths and the Women and Words Society’s history.
Special thanks to Tony Power, librarian and curator of the Contemporary Literature Collection at Simon Fraser University, and to SFU’s Special Collections and Rare Books.
Image Gallery
Page 2 of the Women and Words Conference from 1983, containing a note from the organizers. Photo credit: courtesy of SFU Bennett Library Special Collections & Rare Books.
First page of a timeline outlining WestWord retreat organization, application, and admittance processes. Photo credit: taken by Kandice Sharren, courtesy of SFU Bennett Library Special Collections & Rare Books.
Press release for WestWord III from February 1987. Photo credit: taken by Kandice Sharren, courtesy of SFU Bennett Library Special Collections & Rare Books.
Poster for the WestWord III public events, readings, and panels, including a reading by Sharon Thesen. Photo credit: Taken by Kandice Sharren, courtesy of SFU Bennett Library Special Collections & Rare Books.
The tape holding the Sharon Thesen reading from August 18, 1987 (MsC23-85). Photo credit: courtesy of SFU Bennett Library Special Collections & Rare Books.
Poster for WestWord V public events, readings, and panels. Photo credit: Taken by Kandice Sharren, courtesy of SFU Bennett Library Special Collections & Rare Books.
Poster for WestWord VI public events and readings. Photo credit: Taken by Kandice Sharren, courtesy of SFU Bennett Library Special Collections & Rare Books.
NOTES
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
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