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Using case studies and examples, this book helps archivists understand the different ways trauma can present in archival workers, patrons, and donors.A Practical Guidebook to Trauma-Informed Archival Practice: Best Practices and Case Studies looks at trauma in archival work through various user perspectives. Understanding the different types of traumas that can be expressed leads to creating policies and workflows that can help reduce the harm caused by potentially traumatic collections.
The authors focus on ways to reduce and minimize trauma across archival work through highlighting:
- The right and wrong ways to work with grieving donors
- How to identify trauma in archival workers and support staff, volunteers, and students before, during, and after exposure to trauma
- Enumerating the many effects of trauma on the body and the brain and offering short term and long-term solutions
This book is the practical guide to dealing with trauma in archives that will help not only the archivists who work with these difficult collections, but also patrons, donors, and users who interact with them.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Archival Trauma
Chapter 2: Archival Trauma and Donor Relations
Chapter 3: Archival Trauma and Patrons
Chapter 4: Archival Trauma and Archival Workers
Chapter 5: Emotional Intelligence and Archival Work
Chapter 6: Trauma Informed Policy
About the Authors
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Michelle Ganz is the Archives Director for the Dominican Sisters of Peace, USA.Veronica L. Denison is an Assistant Professor and Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at the Adams Library at Rhode Island College, USA.
