In this week’s collection spotlight, the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) team would like to continue to showcase the different aspects of archival collections here at Arizona State University and specifically the Chicano/a Research Collection curated by Nancy Godoy, Associate Archivist here at ASU Library, and the Project Lead of the CDA team and its initiative. As stated in a previous spotlight regarding this collection, the Chicano/a Research Collection was started in 1970 by Dr. Christine Marin and is currently the largest collection of manuscripts, photographs, books, newspapers and ephemera of Mexican American history in the state and the Southwest. To learn more about the Chicano/a Research Collection please click here.
In this spotlight we would like to highlight the wonderful digitized films and videos available in the Chicano/a Research Collection and how these films and videos add to the richness of the collection here at ASU. One of these films titled “Guadalupe, Arizona” depicts the city of Guadalupe, Arizona and documents residents of the city in the 1970’s going about their daily lives as well as efforts by the town to renovate the Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish Church & the Santa Lucia Church. To learn more about the archival collections housed in the ASU Digital Repository please click here.
Contact me, Jessica Salow, with feedback at Jessica.Salow@asu.edu, as I would love to hear your thoughts regarding the work we here at ASU are doing in community archiving around Arizona. We also want your feedback on what you would like to see from us in future blog posts. See you next week!