by Francine Snyder Day Five: Cuenca Friday, October 2, 2015   The last official day in Cuenca started with as many others had – with one of my favorite Ecuadorian non-archives-related highlights: tropical juice. Available in an unexpected bounty, I had made it my mission to try as many different types as I could during… Read More Last Day in Cuenca

by Ana D. Rodríguez Thursday, October 1st, 2015 Today we woke up in beautiful Cuenca, Ecuador. Our day starts early and our mission today takes us to visit the town of Cañar. Located two hours away from Cuenca, Cañar is the small and quaint town where the village of the Cañari people is located. Cañar… Read More Our day in Cañar

This week we’re featuring two blog posts about our visit to the town of Cañar. One is written from the perspective of a resident (Judy Blankenship), the other from the point of view of a 1st time visitor (Ana D. Rodríguez). Enjoy! Back to Cañar: Judy Blankenship To return for a lightening visit of three… Read More Itinerant Archivists in Cañar

Wednesday, September 30 On Wednesday morning, our group departed from Café Cultura for the UIO airport. After a surprisingly hassle-free check in, our flight touched down in the UNESCO World Heritage site of “Santa Ana de los Cuatro Ríos de Cuenca,” commonly known as Cuenca. An important Cañari settlement subsumed by the Incan empire in… Read More Itinerant Archivists’ first day in Cuenca, Ecuador

Day 2 (September 29, 2015): International Archives Conference, PUCE Tuesday brought the first marquee event of the Itinerant Archivists’ sojourn in Ecuador: the inaugural conference of the Ciclo Internacional de Conferencias called “Archivos históricos y la valoración de las fuentes documentales” (“Historical Archives and the Valuation of Documentary Sources”) held at the Pontificia Universidad Católica… Read More Sharing professional experiences between the U.S. and Ecuador

Founded in 2014 by three 2014 ALI cohorts, Itinerant Archivist s a grassroots, self-funded effort by U.S.-based archivists to engage and build international awareness and service orientation through travel, service projects, and bilateral exchange of expertise. Natalie Baur, Christian Kelleher, and Francine Snyder met the summer of 2014 at Archives Leadership Institute (ALI) and discovered… Read More About Us

DÍA 1 Nombre del evento: Los archivos históricos: socialización de experiencias profesionales entre Estados Unidos y Ecuador Martes 29 de septiembre del 2015 8h00 a 17h30 HORA CONTENIDO RESPONSABLE 8:00-8:30 Registro de asistencia DMGDA-PUCE 8:30 9:00 Acto de inauguración Administrador General MDMQ-Director Escuela Ciencias Históricas PUCE 9:00 9:30 El Proyecto Archivistas Itinerantes Natalie Baur, SAA… Read More Quito Conference Schedule

Jorge Yépez Cruz presentation on “Ecuadorian Archives: Situation and Challenges”  was presented  by the Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable joint with the International Archival Affairs Roundtable on August 19, 2015 at the SAA annual conference in Cleveland Ohio. This was a prerecorded video lecture and was supplemented with a handout of an English translation. Video link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-4I-K_EIVh5SVZadGNtNkg2R0k/view?pli=1… Read More Jorge Yépez Cruz Presentation “Ecuadorian Archives: Situation and Challenges”

Forty years ago, SAA’s International Archival Affairs Committee sponsored a Foreign Study Program of Archives trip to Europe, part of a series of such trips that subsequently included the Middle East and the South Pacific. The announcement below from the April 1975 issue of The American Archivist highlights that trip’s “jet flights” (which we’ll have),… Read More An Inspiration for the Itinerant Archivists: SAA Foreign Study Program of Archives