Storying the Archive: A new open textbook

Storying the Archive: Evoking the Fryer Library Indigenous Collection has been published in Open Textbooks @ UQ.

About the book

In Storying the Archive: Evoking the Fryer Library Indigenous Collection, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics, researchers, and professional staff, and non-Indigenous colleagues respond to items held in the Fryer Library Indigenous Collection.

Storying the archive book cover

Edited by Professor Tracey Bunda and Dr Laura Deane, the book aims to illuminate the collections through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s experience of them, with the intention being to spark joy and contribute to Reconciliation.

Thirty contributors have written entries organised in five parts:

  • Archives, Librarians and Indigenous Collections
  • Responding to Colonial Archives
  • Activists
  • Artists
  • Storytellers.

Each entry includes a response to a collection or collection item, photographs of the collection, a contributor biography and portrait, and links to the collection item.

Read Storying the Archive

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Last updated:
31 October 2024