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In 2017, the Arizona State University Library was awarded a $450,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the project titled “Engaged, Educating, and Empowering: Developing Community-Driven Archival Collections.” This three-year project was designed to build and expand community-driven col...

Starting in 2009 archivists attending the annual Arizona Archives Summit (AAS) began to address serious concerns from archivists around the state regarding a number of issues facing Arizona archives. Those issues were unprocessed backlogs, underrepresented communities/topics, and collection developm...

Anyone can be a community archivist. If you have a passion or drive to preserve the history of your family and the people within your community we encourage you to become a community archivist. So many people within marginalized communities do not understand that our history is important and worth d...

The Community-Driven Archives (CDA) team here at Arizona State University is what we proudly call the “dream team”. With a background as diverse and community oriented as the CDA team is, we are excited to have this opportunity to serve the diverse communities across Arizona. ASU Library is proud an...

The Community-Driven Archives (CDA) team at Arizona State University (ASU) is excited to be back on this platform with the work our group is embarking on in community-driven archives. Due to various reasons (time, staff and student commitments) unfortunately the previous bl...

Growing up queer for me was, as it is for many others, an intensely lonely experience. Being in the closet left me isolated from the friends and family to whom I was meant to be closest; the shame of hiding a secret and the fear of losing those relationships by revealing myself prevented these relat...

Los Conquistadores Parade Float Circa 1950 Family histories can help us understand the past, connect with a place or time, or maybe relate with historical events. My mother and I attended an Archives and Preservation workshop in 201...

My name is Reed Nava and I am an Archives Specialist in Distinctive Collections here at ASU. Growing up, my mom saved every treasure from every stage of my development as a child. I had the biggest and most comprehensive baby album because I was the first born and there was...

Growing up in an entirely Hispanic (90%) and Afro American (10%) community (barrio), my world was very one sided. My world opened up as my education grew. In high school, I was introduced to stories I never knew existed. As a college student, I became enlightened with the u...