Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice (Crumme Hannah Leah)(Paperback)

Libraries and archives are grappling with the problems created by collection practices of the past, many of which document those in power while bypassing alternate perspectives and stories. This volume examines continuing efforts in archives across the U.S. to build inclusive records that better represent the disparate histories of this country. It details varying approaches to uplifting community and activist archives that are working to preserve parallel histories, outlining a way forward that will help special collections librarians as they design projects in the future. Readers will discover the importance and value of records that preserve complicated, nuanced, and diverse histories; differences between community-created archives, community-centered archives, and archives that simply document various communities, made with little or no consultation of those whose
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