2. Archives & Identity: ‘The record is always in the process of becoming’: yes but becoming what? Louise Craven, TNA September 2007

3. Agenda what is identity for user? can other disciplines help? philosophical? postmodern? ideas from cultural studies endorsed by experience new developments in archive theory

4. Sue McKemmish, ‘Are archives ever actual?’ in The Records Continuum, Sue McKemmish & Michael Piggot (eds), Society of Australian Archivists, Ancora, 1994

5. Definitions of identity consumption … language… buildings … memory… the past … meaning … post colonialism … place …

6. In Museums … Andrew Newman, International Centre for Cultural & Heritage Studies, …. 2006 … ‘identity constructed and re-constucted… museums ‘facilitate identity construction’ ….

7. Postmodernist interpretation…. New views! Adherence to any shool of thought from classicism to modernism no longer necessary! one text … many neanings…. Wheee!! Apply to archival text

9. Many readings and many meanings of a Will ? archivist social historian medical researcher statistician biographer family historian land registry local historian

11. Cultural texts Relationship to text: ‘Structure of feeling’: from Raymond Williams The Long Revolution, 1961 Online: relationship to graphic ? Like film: visual and intimate: from Genre and Cinema, 1981 Comments from volunteer projects…..

13. Individual experience… Meaning… Identity The content becomes the context

14. Developments in archival theory.. User focussed What is provenance? Professor Tom Nesmith…. postmodernist view….American Archivist, 2007, 65, 1

15. The record and the profession.. In the process of becoming…..?