Community Archives, Community Spaces - Heritage, Memory and Identity

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Community Archives

About the author

Jeannette A. Bastian is a recently retired Professor from the School of Library and Information Science, Simmons University, Boston, Massachusetts where she directed their Archives Management program. A former Territorial Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands, she holds an MPhil from the University of the West Indies and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh.Andrew Flinn is a Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History at University College London. He is the vice chair of the UK Community Archives and Heritage Group and joint co-ordinator of the Archives Cluster in the University of Gothenburg/UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester in 1999.

Summary

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, including development to sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres, and explores new definitions of what community archives might encompass, particularly in relation to disciplines outside the archives.

Product details

• Authors: Jeannette A. Bastian, Andrew Flinn
• Assisted by: Jeannette A. Bastian (Editor), Bastian Jeannette A. (Editor), Andrew Flinn (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2019
• EAN: 9781783303519
• ISBN: 978-1-78330-351-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, Archiving, preservation & digitisation, Library, archive and information management, Museology and heritage studies, Library, Archive & Information Management, Archiving, preservation and digitization