Raising the archival consciousness: How women's archives challenge traditional approaches to collecting and use, or, what's in a name?

Kären M Mason; Tanya Zanish-Belcher

doi:10.1353/lib.2008.0003

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Raising the archival consciousness: How women's archives challenge traditional approaches to collecting and use, or, what's in a name?

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Raising the archival consciousness: How women's archives challenge traditional approaches to collecting and use, or, what's in a name?

Kären M Mason and Tanya Zanish-Belcher

Library Trends, Vol.56(2), pp.344-359

2007

DOI: 10.1353/lib.2008.0003

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This article examines archival collecting, taking as case studies two women’s archives. Drawing on their experiences building the collections of the Archives of Women in Science and Engineering (Iowa State University) and the Iowa Women’s Archives (University of Iowa), the authors explore how such efforts challenge traditional approaches to collecting. Proactive collecting, such as oral history projects focused on Latinas or women scientists, helps fill gaps in the historical record by encouraging people who have not traditionally been donors to participate in building and using diverse archival collections.

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Title: Subtitle: Raising the archival consciousness: How women's archives challenge traditional approaches to collecting and use, or, what's in a name?
Creators: Kären M Mason
Tanya Zanish-Belcher
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Library Trends, Vol.56(2), pp.344-359
DOI: 10.1353/lib.2008.0003
ISSN: 0024-2594
eISSN: 1559-0682
Language: English
Date published: 2007
Academic Unit: History; Special Collections and University Archives
Record Identifier: 9983993007002771

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