Archival Activism and Social Justice: Spotlight on Americana 2016: A Report
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Edith Sandler
Edith Sandler is Secretary, Student Archivists at Maryland.
Abstract
In March of 2016, the Student Archivists at Maryland (SAM) brought together archives professionals as part of Americana, their annual symposium at the University of Maryland. Americana 2016 “Archival Activism and Social Justice” focused on the intersection of archives and social justice, a topic of increasing importance and debate both in the archival field and in current events. Three speakers related their experiences documenting the experiences of displaced communities and social justice movements. Katharina Hering, Project Archivist for the National Equal Justice Library at the Georgetown Law Library related her work documenting the history of legal aid, indigene defense and the history of poverty. Diane Travis, a doctoral student at the iSchool explained her project at the University of Maryland’s Digital Curation and Innovation Center reuniting the records of Japanese Americans who were interred at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. The final speaker, Denise D. Meringolo, is Director of Public History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the creator of the Preserve the Baltimore Uprising Project.
About the author
Edith Sandler is Secretary, Student Archivists at Maryland.
References
“Preserve the Baltimore Uprising 2015 Archive Project.” Accessed April 20, 2016, http://www.baltimoreuprising2015.org/.Suche in Google Scholar
South Asian American Digital Archive. Accessed April 10, 2016, https://www.saada.org/.Suche in Google Scholar
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Introduction
- Articles
- Europe
- Africa
- Preservation and Digitization Activities in Arabic- and Farsi-Speaking Countries
- This Is What a Syrian City’s First Free Library Looks Like
- Update on Syria
- Asia
- Cuban Scholarly Initiatives with the UCLA Library
- Archival Activism and Social Justice: Spotlight on Americana 2016: A Report
- Currents and Comments
- Currents and Comments
- Book Review
- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- Introduction
- Articles
- Europe
- Africa
- Preservation and Digitization Activities in Arabic- and Farsi-Speaking Countries
- This Is What a Syrian City’s First Free Library Looks Like
- Update on Syria
- Asia
- Cuban Scholarly Initiatives with the UCLA Library
- Archival Activism and Social Justice: Spotlight on Americana 2016: A Report
- Currents and Comments
- Currents and Comments
- Book Review
- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
