Title & Author:

Through the archival looking glass : a reader on diversity and inclusion / edited by Mary A. Caldera and Kathryn M. Neal.

Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Society of American Archivists, [2014]

Description:

xxiv, 298 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Mary A. Caldera and Kathryn M. Neal -- Identity and inclusion in the archives: challenges of documenting one's own community / by Valerie Love and Marisol Ramos -- Into the deep end: one archivist's struggles with diversity, community, and collaboration and their implications for our profession / by Mark A. Greene -- Regarding indigenous knowledge in archives / by Jeffrey Mifflin -- Revolutionizing the archival record through rap: Cuban hip hop and its implications for reorienting the archival paradigm / by Tiffany-Kay Sangwand -- Archives (re)imagined elsewhere: Asian American community-based archival organizations / by Vivian Wong, Tom Ikeda, Ellen-Rae Cachola, and Florante Peter Ibanez -- A documentation case study: the desegregation of Virginia education (DOVE) project / by Sonia Yaco and Beatriz Betancourt Hardy -- Respecting their word: how the Braun Research Library works with native communities / by Kim Walters -- Building diversity inside archival institutions / by Sharon Thibodeau -- The family and community archives project: introducing high school students to archives and the archives profession / by Daniel Hartwig and Christine Weideman -- Pluralizing archival education: a non-zero-sum proposition / by Anne J. Gilliland.

Summary:

The impulse to create archives is rooted in the very human need to leave one's mark on the world. Whether through letters, diaries, reports, photographs, films, or a teenager's simple need to scrawl "I was here" on a subway wall, there's a deep desire in individuals to tell their stories, to be seen literally and figuratively in archives. With this desire also comes the need to ensure that archives are as diverse as the world we live in and to preserve the individuals and cultures that have been consciously or unconsciously underserved in the archives. Through the Archival Looking Glass: A Reader on Diversity and Inclusion, edited by Mary A. Caldera and Kathryn M. Neal, features ten essays that explore prominent themes related to diversity, including: Creating a diverse record; Recruiting diversity to the profession and retaining a diverse workforce; Questioning the archive itself, on representation, authority, neutrality, objectivity, and power. Through the Archival Looking Glass illustrates a multitude of perspectives and issues so that fresh voices can emerge alongside more familiar ones, and new concepts can be examined with new treatments of established ideas. Diversity is an ever-evolving concept; the term itself is increasingly rephrased as inclusion. By simulating further ideas and conversation, we can come closer to a common understanding of what diversity and inclusion are or can be and, perhaps most importantly, how they may be realized in archives and the archival profession. -- From back cover.

ISBN:

9781931666701
1931666709

Subject:

Archives United States Administration.
Minorities United States Archives.
Women United States Archives.
Sexual minorities Archives.
Archives Philosophy.
Information science Philosophy.
Minorities.
Cultural pluralism.
Archives
Minority Groups
Cultural Diversity
Femmes États-Unis Archives.
Minorités sexuelles Archives.
Archives Philosophie.
Sciences de l'information Philosophie.
Minorités.
Diversité culturelle.
minorities.
Archives Administration
Sexual minorities
Women
Gender identity.
LGBTQ+ cultural heritage institutions.
United States

Form/genre:

Archives
LGBTQ+ archives.

Added entries:

Caldera, Mary A., editor.
Neal, Kathryn M., editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286171
Call No.: BIB 226340
Status: Available