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Project Reflections

Visions for a Community-Driven Archive

Now that we’ve concluded the work on our grant, we are identifying ways that our short-term efforts can have a longer-term impact on the University Libraries at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Published June 30, 2021
Categorized as Articles, Project Reflections, Reflection

Exploring the Nuance of Community-Driven Archives: A Conversation with Archives Practitioners Jimmy Zavala and Nancy Godoy

Exploring the Nuance of Community-Driven Archives: A Conversation with Archives Practitioners Jimmy Zavala and Nancy Godoy
This University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries virtual public event highlighted community-driven archives projects that our guests, Nancy Godoy and Jimmy Zavala, have led, featuring inspirations, successes, and challenges.

What happens when large research university libraries engage in community outreach around archives and community memory? What should other university libraries know before embarking on community-driven archives projects? What should communities be aware of when they are approached to participate in these types of partnerships? Is it possible to generate and sustain more dynamic relationships… Continue reading Exploring the Nuance of Community-Driven Archives: A Conversation with Archives Practitioners Jimmy Zavala and Nancy Godoy

Published May 13, 2021
Categorized as Project Reflections, Sustaining Archives, Video Tagged Access

Reflecting on our Community-Driven Archives Project, 2017-2021

Chaitra Powell, Charlissa Rice, Sonoe Nakasone, and Alex Paz Cody gather around a table to create information packets for incoming Archival Seedlings

After four years, our Community-Driven Archives team has concluded its work on this Andrew W. Mellon grant-funded initiative. As we come to the end of our journey together, we took the time to reflect on and to be honest about the strengths of this work and the challenges and weaknesses of our project.

Published May 3, 2021
Categorized as Articles, Blog, Project Reflections, Reflection

Working from behind the Scenes: The Appalachian Student Health Coalition Archive Project

a photograph from the 1960s of a young doctor (on the right) consulting with a nursing student (left background) and nun (left foreground) in a hospital

CDA team member Gillian McCuistion reflects about the relationship between UNC Libraries project archivists and the Appalachian Student Health Coalition: What is our institutional role so that community storytellers and their needs are centered?

Published March 12, 2021
Categorized as Blog, Project Reflections, Reflection, Resources Tagged Appalachian Student Health Coalition (ASHC), Archival Collections, Partners, Reflection

Community-based, in a Digital Space

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the change of medium from in-person to digital presented an unexpected opportunity to stretch our expectations of technology and start rethinking how we can use it to create embodied and relational experiences online.

Published March 12, 2021
Categorized as Blog, Project Reflections, Reflection Tagged Access, Archival Seedlings, Local history, Reflection

So What’s a CDAT Anyway? Meet the Community-Driven Archives Team at the Southern Historical Collection

Meet past team CDAT members: In October 2017, the Southern Historical Collection celebrated the complete staffing of our “Building A Model For All Users: Transforming Archive Collections Through Community-Driven Archives” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant team.

Published March 12, 2021
Categorized as Blog, Project Reflections, Reflection Tagged Definitions, Methods, Partners

What’s with all the Backpacks?

A dozen backpack in variety of bright colors sit in the bed of tan pick up truck along side a large cardboard box.

One of the central initiatives for the CDA Team is a transportable archiving kit that demystifies the technical jargon and supplies resources for communities.

Published February 12, 2021
Categorized as Blog, Project Reflections, Reflection Tagged Archival Formats, Archivist in a Backpack, Reflection, Tools

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Community-Driven Archives

Project Duration 2017-2021

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Our Team

María R. Estorino, Principal Investigator
Chaitra Powell, Project Director
Biff Hollingsworth, Co-Investigator
Charlissa Rice, Business Services Coordinator
Sonoe Nakasone, Community Archivist
Kimber Heinz, Outreach Coordinator
Alex Paz Cody, Graduate Research Assistant
Gillian McCuistion, Graduate Research Assistant
Lidia Jo Morris, Graduate Research Assistant

Past Team Members

Bryan Giemza, Principal Investigator
Josephine McRobbie, Community Archivist
Bernetiae Reed, Project Documentarian and Oral Historian
Eldrin Deas, Graduate Research Assistant
Claire Du Laney, Graduate Research Assistant
Brenna Edwards, Graduate Research Assistant
Leah Epting, Graduate Research Assistant
Lucas Kelley, Graduate Research Assistant
Lindsay Terrell, Graduate Research Assistant
Merisa Tomczak, Graduate Research Assistant

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