Alison Day (she/they)

Collecting and Connecting: The experiences of queer communities and queer independent archives with GLAM institutions and universities in Aotearoa New Zealand

Email:  alison.day@vuw.ac.nz

Supervisors:  A.Prof Maja Krtalic & A.Prof Chern Li Liew

Profile

Before starting her PhD in Information Studies, Alison studied for her MIS at Victoria University of Wellington while working part-time in a library. Previously, she was employed at the University of Waikato as a Researcher followed by a research position at a market research company in Wellington. Alison holds a PhD in History from the University of Auckland and she is a recipient of a Victoria University of Wellington Doctoral Scholarship. Alison also received a Student Excellence Award as the Top Student, Masters in Information Studies in 2021, the Christina Beal Memorial Prize in Library and Information Studies in 2020 and the Dame Rosemary Horton Prize in 2019.

Research interests

For her PhD, Alison is researching the collecting, documenting and donating experiences and relationships of Aotearoa New Zealand's queer communities, queer independent archives with the GLAM institutions and universities. An enthusiastic researcher, Alison is particularly interested in the queer cultures of Aotearoa’s LGBTQ+ independent archives along with the complexities of implementing queer metadata and classification within current structures.

Qualifications

MIS (Distinction), Victoria University of Wellington

MSocSci Demography (First Class Honours), University of Waikato

PhD History, University of Auckland

MA History (First Class Honours), University of Auckland

Selected Publications

2024 Collaborating, collecting and representing: queer independent archives and their connections with GLAM institutions in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Information Research, 29(2), 246–252. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir292825

2024 Day, A. S., & Pendharkar, A. Current Connections, Future Collections: Researchers and Information Professionals working together. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2024.2365471

Day, A. (2023). Seize the Initiative: In-process LGBTQ+ research findings and their impact on connecting practices in New Zealand GLAMU Institutions.  Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 560-564. https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pra2.815

Krtalić, M., Campbell-Meier, J., Day, A., Lilley, S. (2023). Literacies in everyday life: Tattoo information needs, Education for Information 39(3), 287-307. DOI: 10.3233/EFI-230046

Day, A. (2023) A holistic exploration of the collecting and connecting experiences of LGBTQ+ communities, their independent archives and the GLAMU sector in New Zealand, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 72(3), 306-307, DOI: 10.1080/24750158.2023.2212941

Day, A., &  Krtalić, M. (2022). “Evidence of Me” Becoming “Evidence of Us”: A case study of the policy, processes, donor relations and responses of selected New Zealand GLAM institutions to personal donations of collections and artifacts, Collection Management, 47(1), 49-73, DOI: 10.1080/01462679.2021.1971588

She has recently produced a teaching module on queer metadata and classification. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/f70179b9-7945-45da-bc99-3de65cbdb8f5/review